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| Pierce Peter "Rok" Embich
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Pierce Peter "Rok" Embich 2 4
FamilySearch ID: G4WV-TYP Noted events in his life were: 1. Census in 1880 in Jackson Twp., Lebanon, PA. 6 The 1880 census recorded Pierce Embich, 11, boarder, living in the home of Jacob Wagner, 46, and his wife Sarah, 39. Also in the home is Clara Shaak, 22, identified as "step father" and John M. Kener, 1, boarder. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. 2. Fact: Pierce Embich and his future wife Ida Bechtold lived near each other in the 1880 census in Jackson Township, Lebanon County. He is on page 24 and she on page 18., 1880, Jackson Twp., Lebanon, PA. 3. Note: On his marriage application no parents are listed with note "both parents deceased", 26 Nov 1892, Schaefferstown, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. 2 4. Occupation: laborer on 26 Nov 1892 in Schaefferstown, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. 2 5. Newspaper: Lebanon Daily News: BIKE THIEF IN JAIL., 29 Jul 1897, Lebanon, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. Pierce Embich, of North Lebanon township, was sent to jail this morning by Alderman Herman, the charge of stealing a bicycle from John J. Fell, near Prescott. He will be given a hearing tomorrow evening. Constable Yost made arrest. 6. Newspaper: Lebanon Daily News: Trials. Pierce Embich plead guilty to stealing a bicycle from John J. Fell. The man with whom he boarded on Canal street testified to having received the wheel from Embich in payment of a board bill amounting to $5., 20 Sep 1897, Lebanon, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. 7 7. Newspaper: Lebanon Daily News, 28 Jan 1898, Lebanon, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. 8 Prisoners Discharged from Jail. William Shultz and Pierce Embich were today discharged from the county jail. Shultz eerved seven months for Larceny and keeping a disorderly bouse. Embich served a six months sentence for larceny. 8. Occupation: shoe factory worker on 15 Jun 1914 in Annville, Lebanon, PA. 4 Pierce married Ida Viola Bechtold, daughter of John Henry Bechtold and Harriet Amelia Blantz, on 26 Nov 1892 in Schaefferstown, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States.1 2 (Ida Viola Bechtold was born on 14 May 1869 in Jackson Twp., Lebanon, PA,9 10 died on 12 Mar 1929 in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT 10 and was buried in Raymond Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States 10.) Pierce next married Alice Elizabeth Winkler on 11 May 1903 in , Lebanon, PA.3 (Alice Elizabeth Winkler was born on 11 Jan 1885 in Longswamp Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States 11 and died on 26 Aug 1965 in Enola, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States 11.) Noted events in their marriage were: 1. They were divorced. 11 Pierce next married Kathryn Lenick. (Kathryn Lenick was born about 1877 in Hummelstown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States 4.) |
1 Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriages, 1852-1854 ([database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Secretary of the Commonwealth. Series 26.28, Record and Indexes of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Microfilm, rolls 668-673. Records of the Department of State, Record Group 26. Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Ida Bechtle & Pierce Embich m. 26 nov 1892 Schaefferstown PA.
2 Lebanon County Courthouse (Lebanon, PA), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GPX9-9JPM.
3 FamilySearch.org, Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1775-1991, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G58D-3T7.
4 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1906-1917, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60484/images/60484_78164b65_0186-00016.
5 FamilySearch.org, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007," https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K92-S1DW.
6 1880 United States Census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYBJ-KX4.
7 Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon, PA), 20 Sep 1897 page 1.
8 Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon, PA), 28 Jan 1898 page 2.
9 FamilySearch.org, "Lancaster Delayed Birth Certificates (Lancaster Co. PA)," https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3SR-D3J2-Q.
10 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19841628.
11 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 31 Mar 2026), entry for Alice Elizabeth Winkler, person ID 96FM-VZF.
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