Margaret Elizabeth Becher

   Other names for Margaret were Maggie Elizabeth Becher ^{1 3} and Margaret Elizabeth Beecher.²

   FamilySearch ID: KPHH-32V.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1870 in Madison Twp., Montgomery, OH. ² John Beecher, day laborer, 63, was living with wife Magdaline, 59; David, farm laborer, 23; Catharine, 20, Margaret, 18. His real estate was worth $800 and personal estate $150.

Next door is William Beecher, laborer, 28, with his wife Mary J., 23, who were married within the year 1870. John & Magdaline were born in Pennsylvania, everyone else in Ohio. His real estate was worth $200 and personal estate $800.

2. Census in 1900 in Madison Twp., Montgomery, OH. ¹ The 1900 census recorded Magdelane Becher, widowed, 85, living as mother-in-law in the household of Valentine Hay, 48, born Nov 1851, and his wife Maggie, 49, May 1851. They had been married for 24 years and she had birthed 2 children, both alive in 1900. Living with them: daughters Bertha, 21, Mar 1879; and Jessie B., 15, Apr 1885. Magdelane had birthed 9 children, 5 alive in 1900. She and her parents were born in Pennsylvania. Maggie was born in Ohio and her parents in Pennsylvania. All others and their parents were born in Ohio.

3. Residence: on 26 May 1938 in Clayton, Montgomery, OH. ³

Margaret married Valentine Hay on 29 May 1876 in , Montgomery, OH.¹ (Valentine Hay was born in Nov 1851 in Madison Twp., Montgomery, OH ¹ and died on 22 May 1906 in Madison Twp., Montgomery, OH ⁴.)