Margaret Rittenour Stephens ¹

   Another name for Margaret was Mary Stephens.²

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence: in Stephens City, Frederick, VA. Stephens City was formerly known as Newtown, Virginia, and before that Stephensburg. The city was founded by Peter Stephens in the 1730s. It is located about 25 miles from Middletown, Maryland, were Margaret Stephen's husband, Samuel Bucher, was born.

2. She has conflicting birth information of 12 Jan 1825 and , , VA. The death certificate for Margaret Bucher has her age as 90 yrs. 2 mos. 29 ds. and has written on it her date of birth is January 12, 1825, which is the correct calculation from her April 10, 1915 death.

3. Census in 1850 in , Clarke, VA. ² Situated only about 10 miles from his birthplace of Middletown, Maryland, in the 1850 Census Samuel Bucher was recorded in the 1850 census in Clarke County as Samuel Booker, shoe maker, 30, with wife Mary, 25; Mary E., 2; and Miriam, 3 months old when the census was recorded on 7 Aug 1850. Also in the home was Letty Stephens, 19, Samuel's sister-in-law. [While not stated in the census, they were in Berryville, Virginia.].

Margaret married Samuel S. Bucher, son of Peter Bucher and Susanna, on 14 Apr 1846 in Middletown, Frederick, MD.¹ (Samuel S. Bucher was born on 19 Sep 1825 in Middletown, Frederick, MD ^{3 4}, christened on 22 Apr 1826 in Middletown: Lutheran Congregation Of Zion Church, Frederick, MD,³ died on 15 Jun 1879 in Westport, Jackson, MO and was buried in Kansas City: Union Cemetery, Jackson, MO ⁵.)