William F. Bucher ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: 9666-LB8.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1880 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ³ Henry J. Bucher, 25, laborer, is living with wife Mary C., 28; William. F., 8; and brother-in-law John F. Eisley, 21, laborer. We can assume Mary C.'s surname is Eisley. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania, except Mary and her mother were born in Tennessee.

2. Census in 1930 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ² The 1930 census recorded owning a $3000 home at 616 Front Street: William F. Bucher, brakeman on steam railroad, 58, living with wife Josephine B., 45; William H., 21; George W., 19; stepson Paul J. Brobst, 16, and stepdaughter Grace, 11. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania, except Josephine's mother in Florida. William and Josephine were married when he was 19 and she 15.

3. Newspaper: Morning News: Sunbury Trainman Seriously Injured, 17 May 1933, Danville, Montour, PA. ⁴ Sunbury, May 16 -- Falling under the wheels of a car while in the discharge of his duties this morning, William F. Bucher, 61, of 616 South Front street, was critically injured and is a patient in the Mary M. Packer hospital, suffering with a fractured skull, a severly crushed left arm, fractures of several ribs and a badly lacerated scalp. His condition is critical.
Mr. Bucher was injured about 7:35 o'clock when he fell from a gondola coal car on which he was riding while working with shifting crew No. 17 on the P. R. R. "Y" to the rear of the Reading railroad towers at Third and Penn streets.
There were three cars in the draft, which was being pushed ahead of the shifting engine, and Mr. Bucher was riding on the rear of the first car.
Although reports received at the local railroad offices gave no inkling of how the man fell, and Mr. Bucher was in no condition to make a statement, belief was expressed that he had been jolted from his position.

William married Mary A. Wynn, daughter of David Wynn and Unknown, on 1 Jan 1892 in , Northumberland, PA.¹ (Mary A. Wynn was born about 1872 in Lower Augusta Twp., Northumberland, PA ¹.)

William next married Josephine Fenstermacher about 1910 in , Northumberland, PA. (Josephine Fenstermacher was born on 29 Jan 1885 in Riverside, Northumberland, PA,^{2 5 6} died on 7 Oct 1956 in Bloomsburg, Columbia, PA ^{5 6} and was buried on 10 Oct 1956 in Espy: New Rosemont Cemetery, Columbia, PA ^{5 6}.)