Sarah Salome Beecher ^{2 3 4 5 6}

   Other names for Sarah were Salone Beecher,⁷ Salome Bucher, Sarah Salome Bucher, Salome Bücher ⁴ and Salome Buecher.^{3 8}

   FamilySearch ID: KCFN-W9K.

  Burial Notes:

Rose Hill Cemetery, Section F.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. She has conflicting birth information of 25 Oct 1796 and Hagerstown, Washington, MD. ^{4 9}

2. Baptism on 27 Feb 1797 in Littlestown: Christ Reformed Church, Adams, PA. Baptism by Rev. John Christoph Gobrecht: Salome b. 25 Oct 1796, parents Samuel and Barbara Buecher, sponsors Elizabeth Winteroth, single ⁹

3. Census in 1800 in Germany Twp., Adams, PA. ¹⁰ Several related families appear on the same Census page in 1800 in Germany Township. (The Beechers were recorded as Beahers.)

Samuel Beaher is listed with this household:
Males (born)
Under 10 (1791-1800) = 1 son (Henry)
26-44 (1756-1774) = 1 father (Samuel)
Females (born)
Under 10 (1791-1800) = 3 daughters (Mary, Elizabeth, Salome)
26-44 (1756-1774) = 1 wife (Barbara)

William Beaher has this household:
Males (born)
16-25 (1775-1784) = 1 (his brother Peter)
26-44 (1756-1774) = 1 William
Females (born)
45 & over (<=1755) = 1 (his mother Catherine)
On the same census page are several allied family surnames that marry the Buecher/Beecher families:

Barbara Wintrode married Samuel Buecher, and Catherine Wintrode married his brother Frederick Beher. On this page we find their father, "Jacob Winterode Capt." and the households of a younger Jacob Winterode, Adam Winterode, and Barbara Winterode.

4. Census in 1810 in Germany Twp., Adams, PA. ¹¹ Living in the household of Samuel Beecher:
Males (born)
Under 10 (1801-1810) = 1 son (William)
10-15 (1795-1800) = 1 son (Jacob)
16-25 (1785-1794) = 1 son (Henry)
26-44 (1766-1784) = 1 father (Samuel)
Females (born)
10-15 (1795-1800) = 2 daughters
26-44 (1766-1784) = 1 wife (Barbara).

5. Census in 1820 in Hagerstown, Washington, MD. ¹² In 1820 Samuel Beacher's household had:
Males (born)
10-15 (1805-1810) = 1 son (William)
16-25 (1795-1804) = 2 (son Jacob and father Samuel in wrong age bracket)
Females (born)
10-15 (1805-1810) = 1 daughter (Salome)
16-25 (1795-1804) = 1 daughter
45 & over (<=1775) = 1 wife (Barbara)
Related families appear on the same census pages: uncle William Beecher, and grandmother Catherine Beacher.

6. Census in 1840 in Clear Spring, Washington, MD. ¹³ Name: John H Fechtig
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Clear Spring, Washington, Maryland
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1 (Barbara Beecher, mother-in-law)
Persons Employed in Manufacture and Trade: 2
Free White Persons - Under 20: 4
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 8.

7. Census in 1850 in Southampton Twp., Somerset, PA. ⁷ The 1850 census recorded Barbara Beecher, 79, living in the household of John H. Fechtig, farmer, 51 and his wife, Salone, 52 and children: Matilda, 19; Susan A., 12. John and Matilda were born in Maryland, the others in Pennsylvania.

8. She has conflicting death information of 9 Apr 1869 and Hagerstown, Washington, MD. ⁴

9. Obituary: Herald And Torch Light Newspaper on 13 Apr 1881 in Hagerstown, Washington, MD. ¹⁴ On the 4th inst., near Gordonsville, Va., at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. M.A. Miller, Mrs. Sarah A Fechtig, relict of the late John H. Fechtig, in the 86th year of her age. The deceased was born and married in Hagerstown, and on the 7th was burried in Rose Hill Cemetery by the side of her deceased husband.

Sarah married John Henry Fechtig, son of Christian Fechtig and Susannah Faulke, on 14 Mar 1822 in Hagerstown, Washington, MD.¹ (John Henry Fechtig was born on 14 Mar 1799 in La Plata, Charles, MD,^{4 7 15 16} died on 10 Apr 1869 in Gordonsville, Orange, VA ^{4 15 16} and was buried in Hagerstown: Rose Hill Cemetery, Washington, MD ¹⁶.)