Johann Adam Lenz
Rebecca Bachin
Rebecca Lenz
(1813-1893)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. John Caspar Beecher

Rebecca Lenz 1 2 3

  • Born: 21 Nov 1813, Schwickartshausen, Büdingen, HE, DEU 2 4
  • Christened: 26 Nov 1813, Schwickartshausen, Büdingen, HE, DEU 4
  • Marriage (1): John Caspar Beecher
  • Died: 9 Aug 1893, Union Grove, Racine, WI at age 79 2
  • Buried: Kenosha: Green Ridge Cemetery, Kenosha, WI 2

   FamilySearch ID: L6MF-6C3.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1860 in Dover, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. 5 The 1860 census recorded John C. Beecher, postmaster, 52, living with wife Rebecca, 50; daughter Mary, 17; and son Gustavus, 14. Everyone was born in Hessen Darmstadt (Germany). Their real estate was valued at $2,000 and personal estate $100, and oddly this is listed next to Rebecca and not John.
On the same census page is Phillip Beecher, farmer, 28, with wife Catharine, 22; Eliza, 6; Emilie, 4; and Louis, 1. The parents were born in Hessen Darmstadt and children in Wisconsin. Phillip's real estate was valued at $800.
Their post office name appears to be "Pen Yan".

2. Census in 1870 in Dover, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. 6 The 1870 census recorded John C. Becher, railroad station agent, 65, living with wife Rebecca, 62; and domestic servant Milly Harry, 13. John and Rebecca were born in born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. John's real estate was valued at $1500 and his personal estate $400. The post office was Kansasville.
Next door is John's son Gustave Becher, farmer, 26, with wife Mary, 27; son Edward, 2; and daughter Rosetta, 6 months old Gustave was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, Mary in England, and their children in Wisconsin. Gustave's real estate was valued at $4000 and personal estate $1200.


Rebecca married John Caspar Beecher, son of Johann Nicolaus Bücher and Anna Maria Leithäuserin. (John Caspar Beecher was born on 22 Dec 1811 in Schwickartshausen, Büdingen, HE, DEU 7 8, christened on 26 Dec 1811 in Schwickartshausen, Büdingen, HE, DEU,8 died on 20 Oct 1882 in Kenosha, Kenosha, WI 7 9 and was buried in Kenosha: Green Ridge Cemetery, Kenosha, WI 7.)

Sources

1 "Racine County Wisconsin History: : Racine Belle City of the lakes and Racine County Wisconsin" (SJ Clarke Pub Co. Chicago. 1916. 1216 pgs.), https://accessgenealogy.com/wisconsin/biography-of-gus-beecher.htm.

2 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219363584.

3 Ancestry.com, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500=1971, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPFV-VW37 Rebecca Lenz.

4 Ancestry.com, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500=1971, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPJD-Y25C?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=L6MF-6C3 baptism of Rebecca Lenz, father Johann Adam Lenz, mother Rebecca.

5 1860 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW97-JW5 : 18 February 2021), John C Beecher, 1860, Phillip Beecher, 1860.

6 1870 United States Census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNSS-YMC.

7 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219362704.

8 Ancestry.com, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500=1971, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPJ6-QTN6 baptism of Johann Caspar Bücher, father Nicolaus Bücher 26 Dec 1811, born 22 Dec 1811.

9 "Kenosha Telegraph (Kenosha, WI)," 27 Oct 1882, obituary of John C. Beecher.


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