Frederick Cook Beecher Sr.
(1871-1939)
Sara Sleeter Collum
(1875-1959)
Lucille Chandler Beecher
(1917-2005)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Harry Erstad

Lucille Chandler Beecher 2 3

  • Born: 1 Jan 1917, Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA 3
  • Marriage (1): Harry Erstad in 1939 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 1
  • Died: 30 Jan 2005, Meadowbrook, Montgomery, PA at age 88 2
  • Buried: Drexel Hill: Arlington Cemetery, Delaware, PA 2

   FamilySearch ID: L6SW-C9F.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Newspaper: Evening News: Rush Lucille Beecher To Hospital After Leg Is Broken In Accident, 20 Aug 1929, Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA. 4 Crossing the street after seeing a girl companion to a trolley car, Lucille Beecher, about 15, of Philadelphia, was severely injured late this afternoon when she was struck by an automobile at Twenty-thrid and Market streets, Camp Hill.
Attaches of the Harrisburg Hospital, where she was taken following the accident, said the girl had suffered a fracture of the leg.
Miss Beecher, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Beecher, formerly of Camp Hill, has been spending some time with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Lovell Harrison, 2212 Market street, Camp Hill.
The girl accompanying Miss Beecher boarded a street car for Harrisburg and Miss Beecher started to cross the street, according to witnesses. As she stepped from behind the street car she found herself in the path of an automobile coming from the direction of Harrisburg and was unable to get out of the way of the machine.
The impact threw the girl to the ground.
Dr. H. C. Lawton, in fron of whose home, at 2300 Market street, the accident occurred, was absent at the time of the accident, and the girl was rushed to the hospital by a motorist.
The driver of the car that struck the girl was Thomas C. Hamm, of Philadelphia.

2. Census in 1930 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. 5 The 1930 census recorded Fred C. Beecher, 56, born in New York, living with wife Sarah C., 54, born in Indiana. Living with them: sons Richard S., 25; Lee C., 23; David, 20; and daughter Lucille, 13. The children were born in Pennsylvania.

3. Newspaper: Evening News: Miss Beecher Engaged to Wed, 25 Nov 1938, Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA. 6 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cook Beecher, of Philadelphia, and formerly of Camp Hill, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Lucile Chandler Beecher, to Harry Erstad, of Philadelphia.
The announcement was made yesterday at a party given by Mr. and Mrs. Beecher at their home.
Miss Beecher attended school in Camp HIll and Germantown. The wedding will take place in late Spring.


Lucille married Harry Erstad in 1939 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.1 (Harry Erstad was born on 9 Jul 1905 in , , PA,7 died on 21 Aug 1975 in Lansdowne, Delaware, PA 7 8 and was buried in Drexel Hill: Arlington Cemetery, Delaware, PA 8.)


Sources


1 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951 (FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org)), https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JVS8-9N1 Erstad and Lucile C Beecher, 1939.

2 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10752819.

3 1920 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MFYM-5Z8 David Beecher in household of Fredrick Beecher, East Pennsboro, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet , family 159, NARA microfilm publication T625.

4 Harrisburg Evening News, Harrisburg, PA, 20 Aug 1929, page 1.

5 1930 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XH4N-2FN Fred C Beecher, Philadelphia (Districts 0251-0500), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0496, sheet , family 239.

6 Harrisburg Evening News, Harrisburg, PA, 25 Nov 1938, page 17.

7 U.S. Social Security Death Index, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JR4F-BJQ Harry Erstad, August 1975; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

8 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69776842.



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