Mary Catherine Beecher 1 2 3 4
Other names for Mary were Mary Catherine Bucher 6 and Mary Catherine Buecher.5 7 FamilySearch ID: 9VH8-5MS. Noted events in her life were: 1. Census in 1850 in Butler Twp., Adams, PA. 6 David Bucher, farmer, 35, was living with Elizabeth, 40; Mary, 8; Elizabeth, 5; Sophia, 4; Lydia, 1, and John, 7 months old when the census was recorded on 10 Aug 1850. David has no real estate value. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Neighbors are 70-year-old John Altlande and his wife Elizabeth, 64 whose farm is worth $3,000. 2. Census in 1860 in Franklin Twp., Adams, PA. 9 David Beecher, farmer, 44, was living with wife Elizabeth, 49; Mary, 18; Elizabeth, 15; Sophia, 14; Lydia, 12; John, 9; Sarah, 7. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. David's real estate was worth $3,000 and personal estate $1,000. The post office was Mummasburg. 3. Census in 1870 in Franklin Twp., Adams, PA. 10 The 1870 census recorded David Beecher, farmer, 56, living with wife Elizabeth, 60; Mary, 25; Elizabeth, 23; Sophia, 22; John, farm laborer, 18; and Sarah, 16. Also in the home was farm laborer Francis Dittenhafer, 18. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. David's real estate was valued at $10,000 and personal estate at $2,500. The post office was Mummasburg. 4. Census in 1880 in Hanover, York, PA. 11 The 1880 census recorded on Baltimore Street in Hanover: Jacob Burger, laborer, 39, living with wife Lidia, 41; and daughters Lizzie, 6, and Annie, 5. Jacob was born in New York and his parents in Hesse Darmstadt Germany. Lidia, her parents, and her daughters were born in Pennsylvania. Mary married Jacob Burcher on 7 Nov 1872. (Jacob Burcher was born in May 1841 in , , PA,12 13 died on 30 Aug 1902 in Lewisberry, York, PA 12 14 and was buried on 1 Sep 1902 in New Oxford: New Oxford Cemetery, Adams, PA 14 15.) |
1 Records of Sharon Nickol Swope (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=nickol).
2 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 670. PA > Adams > Fairfield > Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church. Death of Mary C. Burcher.
3 Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, PA), 18 Mar 1937, page 1. Obituary of Mrs. Isaiah Geisler.
4 Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, PA), 3 Feb 1955, page 1 & 3. Mrs. Elizabeth Berkheimer Fatally Burned in New Oxford.
5 Arendtsville Union Church (Zion Lutheran and Trinity Reformed; Arents Church), Adams County, Pennsylvania.
6 1850 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Adams County, Butler Township, Series: M432 Roll: 743 Page: 11.
7 FamilySearch.org, Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V2FG-125 Mary Catherine Buecher, 11 Jun 1842; Christening, citing Lutheran and Reformed Church, Arendtsville, Adams, Pa. FHL microfilm 824351. Mary Catherine Buecher.
8 Records of Marcia Wilson (Leonia, NJ).
9 1860 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Adams County, Franklin Township, Series: M653 Roll: 1057 Page: 103.
10 1870 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MZL9-3WL David Beecher, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 41, family 333, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 000552788.
11 1880 United States Census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWVB-BNB Jacob Burger Hanover York PA.
12 New Oxford Item (Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania), 5 Sep 1902.
13 1900 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M3H7-V2K Jacob Burcher in household of William A Rudy, Newberry Township, Northern District Goldsboro borough, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 3B, family 68.
14 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47312176.
15 New Oxford Item (Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania), 1 Sep 1902.
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