Patricia Lefor sent me the following information in December 2024 and asked me to publish it here:

My Great grandfather Nikolaus Lefor was born in 1888 in the town of Ernsthausen, he married Elizabeth Dain in 1912 in the town of Georgshausen. Nik was killed in the street near the railway tracks in 1944. Their son (my grandfather) Nikolaus was born in 1914 in Ernsthausen and he married Barbara Schneider in Zichydorf in 1937. They had a son Reinhold (Ron) (my father) born in 1943 in Georgshausen. They came to Canada in 1951.

Oma Barbara Schneider at her confirmation.

The woman on the right is Barbara with her daughter Ann.

Second from the left is my great grandfather Nick and Elizabeth Lefor and in the middle is his parents.  The little girl in the middle is Maria Lefor my grandfather’s sister, she married Lorenz Müller. 

My grandfather and his brother in school in 1923 or 1924.