Amanda C. Beecher ^{2 3 4}

   FamilySearch ID: 9M93-MCT.

  Death Notes:

In the California Death records her age is 74 at time of death.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1860 in Cumberland Twp., Adams, PA. ² Amanda Beecher, 8, and her brother Daniel Beecher, 5, were living in the household of George Arendt, 22, and his wife Matilda, 24. Also there were Jacob Arendt, 3; and Clara Arendt, 1. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office was Green Mount, PA.

2. Census in 1870 in Cumberland Twp., Adams, PA. ³ George Orrant, day laborer, 32, was living with wife Matilda, 34. Also with them: Amanda Beecher, 18; Daniel Beecher, 16, working of farm; Jacob Orrant, 13; Samuel Orrant, 10; Annie Orrant, 8; and John Orrant, 6. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. George's real estate was worth $700, personal estate $470. The post office was Gettysburg.

3. Census in 1880 in Middleway, Jefferson, WV, United States. ⁸ The 1880 census recorded John Baxley, farmer, 28, living with wife Amanda, 28; William, 4; David, 3; Charles, 2; and Mary, 9 months born in August 1879. Everyone was born in West Virginia except Amanda in Pennsylvania.

4. Moved: 1882, , Allen, Kansas, United States. ⁹

5. Book: History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California, 1913. ⁹
One of the most successful of the citizens of Tulare county who have come within its borders in recent years is John W. Baxley, a native of Berkeley county, W. Va., born February 8, 1852. Mr. Baxley was brought up and educated and became acquainted with the details of practical farming in his native state, where he successfully raised wheat, corn, red clover, tobacco and other crops till 1882, when he removed to Allen county, Kans. There he farmed many years, acquiring eight hundred acres and giving his attention principally to wheat and corn. It was in 1909 that he came to Tulare county, Cal., where he rents one hundred and sixty acres of the Giannini ranch and has charge of six hundred and forty acres more of it as superintendent. He raises chiefly prunes, grapes, olives and almonds and has produced some fine crops of beans between rows of fruit trees. In the spring of 1911 he planted a sack and a half of black-eyed beans and fifteen pounds of brown beans and harvested two hundred sacks of the former and thirty-four sacks of brown beans.
In Kansas Mr. Baxley served his fellow townsmen as township trustee and road superintendent. Since coming to California he has been too busy with his purely private affairs to give any time to political work, but he has well defined ideas concerning all questions of public policy and, being an outspoken man, he is quite certain to be heard from whenever he shall consider it necessary to raise his voice in advocacy of any measure directed to the enhancement of the public weal. He married, at Tierty-burg, Pa., February 11, 1875, Miss Amanda L. Beecher, a native of that state, and they have had eleven children, all of whom survive: William A., married Alice Griffin, and they have two sons, Walter and Marvin. David D., who married Anna Orth, has three daughters, Rose, Violet and Lillian. Charles married Maud Meyers and they have a son named Ralph. Mary is the wife of Edward West and has borne him three children, Russel, Irene and Everett. Laura married R. R. Ross and they have a son, Elmer. Grace became the wife of M. J. Adams and their children are Viola, Harold and Catherine. Bessie is the wife of William Stevens and they have a daughter named Edna. Ernest married Edna Dornburg and has borne him a daughter, Hilda. Mattie married Howard Clark and they have one child, a son, Clive Howard. The remaining two are Clarence and Gladys.

6. Obituary: Tulare Advance-Register on 15 Sep 1925 in Tulare, Tulare, CA. ¹⁰ MAKE PLANS FOR BAXLEY FUNERAL
Funeral services for Mrs. Amanda C. Baxley, 74, who passed away at the family home northwest of Tulare yesterday forenoon, will be held on Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist church with Rev. Harry Tuttle of the First Christian church in charge.
Deceased was a native of Pennsylvania and it was in that state, on Febraury 11, 1875, that she was united in marriage with John W. Baxley. who now survives her. After nearly 30 years residence in Virginia, they came to California in 1909, having resided in this vicinity since.
Besides her husband she is survived by the following children living in Tulare: William, Ernest and Clarence and Mrs. Mary Graham, Mrs. Laura Ross, Mrs. Mattie Clark and Mrs. Gladys Lambert. One son, Charles, lives in Humboldt Kansas. Also two other daughters Mrs. Grace Adams of Ducor and Mrs. Bessie Stevens of Lemoore.

Amanda married John W. Baxley on 11 Feb 1875 in Gettysburg, Adams, PA.¹ (John W. Baxley was born on 8 Feb 1851 in , Berkeley, WV,¹¹ died on 22 Sep 1929 in Tulare, Tulare, CA ^{7 11 12} and was buried in Tulare: Tulare Cemetery, Tulare, CA ¹¹.)