Jacob Bucher ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: MWM6-RRM.

  General Notes:

Three Buchers from Switzerland living in this area are related:
Jacob Bucher ID 11250
John J Bucher ID 11252
John Bucher ID 11261

  Noted events in his life were:

1. He immigrated in 1829. ¹

2. Residence: in 1840 in , Wayne, OH.

3. Moved: 1845, , Jo Daviess, IL. ¹

4. Census in 1860 in Pleasant Valley, Jo Daviess, IL. ² Jno J. Bucher, [John], farmer, 60, was living with wife Anna, 58; Barbara, 19; Andrew, 17; George, 13. John and wife were born in Switzerland, the children in Ohio. His real estate was worth $2,000 and personal estate $700. The post office was Pleasant Valley.

Next door is Jacob Bucher, farmer, 35; his wife Catharine, 33; Adam, 10; Simon, 7; Joseph, 4. Also, Jacob Bucher, 19, farm hand, and Matilda Hoy, 26, house servant. Both Jacobs were born in Switzerland, Catharine and Matilda in Ohio, and the others in Illinois. Jacob's farm was worth $6,000 and personal estate $1,350.

Next door is another Jacob Bucher, farmer, 23, with wife Nancy, 24. Living with them: Jno [John] Bucher, 48, farmer; his wife Hester, 46; and Anna, 12; and John Jr. 4. Jacob ,John Sr., Hester and Anna were born in Switzerland, Nancy in New York, and John Jr. in Illinois. They had no real estate of value. Jacob's personal estate was $60 and John Sr.'s $225.

5. Book: Carroll County Directory - History of Carroll County, 1878. ¹
JACOB BUCHER - Mt. Carroll City: Farmer; born in Switzerland, June 28, 1825; came to this country when four years of age; came to Jo Daviess Co. Spring of 1845; walked there from Chicago; was in the Mexican War, 2d Regt. O.V., Co. D; was escorting provision trains at the battle of Buena Vista; owns a farm of 612 acres in Jo Daviess Co.; married Catherine Geitgey, from Wayne Co., Ohio., March 15, 1840; they have six children: Adam, Simon, Joseph, Louisa D., Mary and George.

Jacob married Catherine Geitgey on 15 Mar 1840 in , Wayne, OH.¹ (Catherine Geitgey was born about 1827 in , Wayne, OH ^{1 2}.)