Almina Beecher ²

   Other names for Almina were Elmira Beecher ^{4 5} and Elmira Bucher.³

   FamilySearch ID: LH8L-CQ3.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Mifflin Twp., Franklin, OH. ⁴ William Reaker [mispelling of Beecher], farmer, 50, was living with wife Julia, 48.; Henry, farmer, 25; Elmira, 19; Matilda, 17; Julia, 14; and Barbary, 12. Everyone's birthplace is Pennsylvania except Ohio for the two youngest children. William's real estate is worth $500, and he is likely living on land given to him by his neighor and father-in-law, Henry Carpenter, occupation "none", 72, and his wife Harriett, 71, whose real estate is worth $400.

2. Census in 1860 in Fairfield Twp., Columbiana, OH. ⁶ The 1860 census recorded the household of Gideo Shale, laborer, 23, living with carpenter W. D. Allen, 29, and his wife Almina, 29; and her daughter Marietta H., 4; son George Lorman, 2; and daughter Julia A., 5 months old when the census was recorded 14 Jul 1860. Everyone was born in Ohio except Almina in Pennsylvania.

Almina married Wilson D. Allen, son of David Allen and Deborah Ann Taylor, on 27 Jul 1853 in Columbus, Franklin, OH.¹ (Wilson D. Allen was born on 11 Jun 1831 in Columbiana, Columbiana, OH,⁷ died on 20 Feb 1899 in Larned, Pawnee, KS ⁷ and was buried in Manhattan, Riley, KS, United States ⁷.)