Help with a name -- Lehwergiger? What could this be?

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FWIW, i read the name on the death cert as Carl Schwertfeger, also.

In the German telephone book (dastelefonbuch.com), found 0 LEHWERGIGER; did find 500+ SCHWERTFEGER.

Also found 2 locations for Sievershausen: 1) 37586 Dassel, in the Reinhardswald, near Solling; 2) 31275 Lehrte, on the A2 between Hannover & Braunschweig. Both are in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen).

In a small village, there might be more than 1 family with the same surname, so it would not be uncommon that bride & groom have same surname. Have found that fairly frequently with my wife's Scottish relatives up in Nova Scotia.

Have also found that some family legends are actually myths.

Kenneth Thompson
Moline Acres (north StLouis County) MO

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Though I have not followed this whole thread, I do know that it was not unusual for first cousins to marry, so it would be possible for the daughter of one brother to marry the son of another brother, sometimes also if a husband abandoned his wife, an unmarried brother would step up and become the new husband, or as here in the states, in my son's great grandparents , when the husband died, the widow married his nephew, same last name and had a bunch more children. I have found quite a bit of intermarriage in my preussian research, maybe some of it skipping a generation or so, but same last names just the same.
Nancy sanders