Mary Kreider ^{1 2 3}

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1900 in Clay Twp., Lancaster, PA. ¹ Buchers are found in four households as neighbors in Clay township in 1900:
Fannie Bucher, 15, born Oct 1884, servant, is living in the home of Amos Landis.

John Bucher, farmer, 41, Sep 1858, was married for 18 years to Maggie, 38, Aug 1861. She had birthed 6 children, all alive in 1900: Amelia, 17, Apr 1883; Jonas W., 14, Aug 1885; Henry C., 13, Feb 1887; Abram G., 9, Aug 1890; Ella b., 4, Jun 1895; and Annie B., 2, Aug 1897.

Next door is Hiram Bucher, 38, Nov 1861, married for 7 years to wife Mary, 31, Nov 1868. She had birthed 4 children, 3 living with them: Edna, 8, Jul 1891; Sarah Bucher, 7, Feb 1893; Andrew Bucher, 4, Jun 1895.

Next door is Jonas Bucher, broom manufacturing, 71, Aug 1828, married for 50 years to Anna, 67, Sep 1832. She had birthed 17 children, 11 alive in 1900. Living with them: daughter Amanda Erb [nee Bucher], 30, Jun 1869, who had birthed 5 children, 3 alive; and grandson John V., 7 May 1893.

Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

2. Census in 1910 in Manheim, Lancaster, PA. ⁵ The 1910 census recorded at 147 Grant Street in Manheim: Mary Bucher, day laborer, 41, widow, living with daughter Sarah, operator hosiery mill, 17; son Andrew, bakery helper, 15; and daughter Grace, 8. Mary had given birth to 5 children by 1910 and all were alive. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

Mary married Hiram Bollinger Bucher, son of Jonas Witwer Bucher and Anna Susan Bollinger, on 30 Oct 1890 in Lititz, Lancaster, PA.^{1 2 3} (Hiram Bollinger Bucher was born in Nov 1862 in Clay Twp., Lancaster, PA,^{1 6 7} died in 1902 in , Lancaster, PA and was buried in Lititz: Hammer Creek Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, PA ⁸.)