Ralph Henry Bucher ¹

   FamilySearch ID: M759-HN1.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1910 in Boyertown, Berks, PA. ³ Jacob Bucher, age 35, bookkeeper, is living with wife Lucy, 32. They were married for 11 years and had one child who was still alive and living with them: Ralph, age 9. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania, as well as their parents except Lucy, whose father was born in England and mother in Maryland. They were living in a rented room at the Keystone Hotel.

2. Census in 1920 in Boyertown, Berks, PA. ⁴ The 1920 census recorded at 300 East Philadelphia Avenue: C. Charles S. Ritter, merchant grocieries and meat, 41, living with wife Zena B., 36; son Elwood, clerk, 17, daughter Laretta M. Mc Evoy, widow, 20, with her daughter Mildred Z. Mc Evoy, 2 years 2 months; and daughter Grace R. Bucher, 19, with son-in-law Ralph H. Bucher, auto machinist, 19. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

3. Census in 1930 in Boyertown, Berks, PA. ⁵ The 1930 census recorded Ralph Bucher, 29, living with wife Grace, 29; Charles, 8; Robert, 9; and father Jacob, 55. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

4. Occupation: store keeper on 2 Dec 1933 in Binghamton, Broome, NY. ²

5. Residence: on 2 Dec 1933 in Binghamton, Broome, NY. ²

Ralph married Grace Reberta Ritter, daughter of C. Charles S. Ritter and Zena B., on 27 Oct 1919 in , Berks, PA.^{1 2} The marriage ended in divorce on 1 Sep 1933. (Grace Reberta Ritter was born about 1901 in , , PA.)

  Marriage Notes:

Ralph's 2nd marriage record indicates he divorced his 1st wife 1 Sep 1933 for reason of desertion.

Ralph next married Ethel Bernice Olsen, daughter of Christian Neil Olsen and Caroline Marie Jensen, on 2 Dec 1933 in , Susquehanna, PA.² (Ethel Bernice Olsen was born about 1911 in Penn Yan, Yates, NY ².)