Jacob Buchen ¹

   Another name for Jacob was Jacob Bucher.³

   FamilySearch ID: LS8Y-R99.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1850 in West Earl Twp., Lancaster, PA. ³ Jacob Bucher, age 42, farmer, is living with wife Rachel, 47; Fiona, 22; John, 19; Samuel, 17; Maria, 15; Jacob, 9; and William, 7. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

2. Census in 1860 in West Earl Twp., Lancaster, PA. ² Jacob Bucher, age 60, laborer, is living with Rachel, 48; and William, 16. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. His real estate is valued at $600 and posessions worth $200. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Nearby neighbors include these surnames: Good (Isaac); Bauman (Samuel); Groff (Emanuel); Bitzer (Daniel).

3. Census in 1870 in West Earl Twp., Lancaster, PA. ⁴ The 1870 census recorded Jacob Buchen, farm laborer, 55, living with wife Rachel, 54; and Lizzie, 3. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office was West Earl.

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588. Martin H. Heller Family History by Marvin and Betty Ann Landis

A family record of the descendants of Martin H. Heller (1863-1942) and Katie Burkholder (1965-1945), but also giving the Heller family history beginning in Europe in 1617. The Buchen, Burkholder, and Heller families are traced back to the immigrants.

(97pp. Author, 1989. $8.50).

Jacob married Rachael Bear, daughter of Samuel Bear and Elizabeth Odenwald. (Rachael Bear was born on 25 Sep 1802 in , , PA,^{3 5} died on 18 Feb 1876 in , Lancaster, PA ⁵ and was buried in Leola: Groffdale Mennonite Brick Church Cemetery, Lancaster, PA ⁵.)