John Bucher
(1756-1810)
Elizabeth
(1758-1844)
Benedict Bucher
(1792-1863)
Catherine Mellinger
(1795-1849)
Polly Bucher
(1823-1825)

 

Family Links

Polly Bucher 1 2

  • Born: 2 Jul 1823, , Lancaster, PA 1 2
  • Died: 5 Apr 1825, , Lancaster, PA at age 1 1 2
  • Buried: Ephrata: Ephrata Cloister Graveyard, Lancaster, PA 1 2

   FamilySearch ID: 9C6N-PYT.

  Burial Notes:

In Egle's Notes and Queries under the heading "The Ephrata Community: Its Graveyard and Tombstone Record" is presented a list of tombstone readings including Polly Bucher and Catherine Bucher, wife of Benedict, nee Mellinger. The specific graveyard is not identified and further research is needed to determine if this reference is to the city cemetery or a particular church.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Cause of Death: Died in infancy. 1 3

Sources

1 Egle, William Henry, Notes and Queries: Historical and Genealogical Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania (1895, Harrisburg Publishing Co., reprinted 1970, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore.
Editions: First and Second Series Volume I, Notes and Queries - XIX. Volume 2.), Annual Volume, 1899, Page 173.

2 Stroh, Oscar H., Pennsylvania German Tombstone Inscriptions (1980. Harrisburg, Pa. 2 vol.), Page 43.

3 Gladys Bucher Sowers, The Bucher Family, 1681-1997 (1997. Gladys Bucher Sowers, 1410 Cornwall Road, Lebanon, PA 17042, 78 pp.), Tree Page 2.


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