Mary Ellen Beecher ^{1 2 3}

   Another name for Mary was Helen Mary Beecher.⁶

   FamilySearch ID: L6WC-QLP.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1910 in Willcox, Cochise, AZ. ⁶ The 1910 census recorded Joe W. Beecher [index in census Bunker not Beecher], quartz miner, 26, living with wife Petra, 26; son James P., 5; Charlie E., 3; Helen M., 1; and Clara J., 3 months old when the census was record 14 May 1910. Joe was born in New Mexico, his father in United States and mother in Mexico (Spanish). Peter was born in Arizona, her parents in Mexico (Spanish). All children were born in Arizona. Joe and Petra were married 7 years, and she had birthed 5 children, 4 still living in 1910.

2. Residence: on 29 Jul 1915 in Dos Cabezas, Cochise, AZ. ⁷

3. Census in 1920 in Gleeson, Cochise, AZ. ² The 1920 census recorded Joseph H. Bucher, 35, born in New Mexico, living with wife Petra, 35; James P., 15; Charles E., 13; Mary E., 11; Joseph H., 8; Samuel P., 6; and Julia P., 2. Everyone was born in Arizona except Joseph H. in New Mexico.

4. Census in 1930 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ⁴ The 1930 census recorded Mary Beecher, 21, single, as a student nurse living in Los Angeles County General Hospital. She and her mother were born in Arizona and her father in New Mexico.

5. Occupation: nurse on 24 Oct 1936 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ¹

6. Residence: 1194 1/2 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA on 24 Oct 1936 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ¹

7. Census in 1940 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ⁸ The 1940 census recorded renting at 830 East 97th Street: Clarence Roberts, truck driver for wholesale ice cream company, 31, born in Tennesse, living with wife Mary, 31, born in Arizona. Also in the home is a "lodger", Margaret Castro, age 1, born in California.

Mary married Clarence Allen Roberts, son of Horace Charles Cruze and Lou Bertha Roberts, on 24 Oct 1936 in Santa Ana, Orange, CA.¹ (Clarence Allen Roberts was born on 3 Sep 1908 in Knoxville, Knox, TN,^{1 9 10 11} died on 5 Aug 1952 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA ^{9 11} and was buried in Gardena: Roosevelt Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CA ¹¹.)