Mary A. Thomman ²

  Noted events in her life were:

1. She has conflicting birth information of Jan 1840 and , , Pennylvania, USA. ^{1 4}

2. Census in 1870 in Middlesex Twp., Cumberland, PA. ² John Y. Bucher, farmer, 30, was living with wife Mary, 32; son Adam, 3; and daughter Anna L., 2. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. John's farm was worth $7,000, his possessions $1,000. The post office was New Kingston.

3. Census in 1880 in Middlesex Twp., Cumberland, PA. ⁵ John Y. Bucher, farmer, 40, was living with wife Mary A., 40; Adam L., 13; and Anna L., 12. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

4. Census in 1900 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ¹ John Bucher, grocer, 60, born Feb 1840, was married for 32 years to wife Mary, 60, Jan 1840. She had birthed one child: Anna L., 29, Dec 1870. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

[Note: the census records she had one child; it appears from earlier census listings there were two, unless John had a first wife who is the mother of Adam.].

5. Census in 1920 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ⁴ At 404 W. Louther St, Daniel M. Bucher, finisher in shoe factory, 46, was living with wife Kate M., 44.

At 368 W. Louther St, Adam L. Bucher, occupation "grocery store," 54, was living with wife Maude B., 44; Edna A., weaver ribbon mill, 23; Helen M., 16.

At 346 W. Louther St was Harvey K. Shoemaker, grocery store, 40, with wife Anna L., 40, and his mother-in-law, Mary Bucher, 80, widowed. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

Mary married John Youndt Bucher, son of Samuel Christian Bucher and Leah Yundt, about 1868.¹ (John Youndt Bucher was born on 26 Feb 1840 in West Earl Twp., Lancaster, PA ^{1 2 3 6 7}, christened on 5 Apr 1840 in Ephrata Twp., Lancaster, PA, died on 19 Jul 1912 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA ³ and was buried in Silver Spring Twp.: Longsdorf Cemetery, Cumberland, PA ³.)