Moses Beecher Jr.
(1827-1894)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Emily Eliza Downer

Moses Beecher Jr. 2 3

  • Born: 26 Jul 1827, Ellicottville, Cattaraugus, NY 1
  • Marriage (1): Emily Eliza Downer on 2 Aug 1855 in Utica, Oneida, NY 1
  • Died: 16 Jul 1894, Warren, Warren, PA at age 66 3 4
  • Buried: Warren: Oakland Cemetery, Warren, PA 3 4

   FamilySearch ID: LW5M-7D2.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. He has conflicting birth information of 10 Aug 1826 and Ellicottville, Cattaraugus, NY. 2 3

2. Census in 1860 in Warren, Warren, PA. 2 Moses Beecher Jr., hardware manager, 32, was living with wife Emily E., 28; Charles E., 4; and domestic Elisabath Gross, 15. Moses' real estate was worth $3,500. Everyone was born in New York, except Ms. Gross was from Pennsylvania. Associated with Moses is the next census listing, George Kimbale, 42, also a hardware manager born in New York, living with his wife, Mary A.

3. Census in 1870 in Warren, Warren, PA. 5 The 1870 census recorded Moses Beecher, banker, 42, living with wife Emily, 38; Charles, 13; Richard, 9; Norman, 8; Mary, 5; and a domestic servant, Mary Shererly, 22, born in Ireland. Richard, Norman, and Mary were born in Pennsylvania, the others in New York.

4. Census in 1880 in Warren, Warren, PA. 6 The 1880 census recorded Moses Beecher, bank cashier, 52, living with wife Emily E., 48; son R. Cary Beecher, 19; son Coleman, 17; daughter Mary, 15; and servant Emline Sefert, 22. Moses was born in New York and his parents in Connecticut. Emily was born in New York and parents in Vermont. Their children were born in Pennsylvania. Emiline was born in Pennsylvania and her parents in Baden, Germany.

5. Cause of Death: heart disease, 16 Jul 1894, Warren, Warren, PA. 4


Moses married Emily Eliza Downer on 2 Aug 1855 in Utica, Oneida, NY.1 (Emily Eliza Downer was born on 27 Feb 1831 in Utica, Oneida, NY 1 2 7 and died about 1901 in New Haven, New Haven, CT.)


Sources


1 David R. Downer, The Downers of America (David R. Downer, Newark, N. J. 1900. Online https://archive.org/details/downersofamerica00down), Page 92. Emily Eliza Downer.

2 1860 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Warren County, Warren, Series: M653 Roll: 1190 Page: 1115.

3 Find A Grave, http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103054077.

4 Warren County Historical Society, Warren County Death Records from 1893 to 1905 (Warren County Historical Society, 210 Fourth Avenue, Warren, Pennsylvania 16365 http:/www.warrenhistory.org).

5 1870 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ2K-CT2 Moses Beecher, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 17, family 126.

6 1880 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWVK-831 Moses Beecher, Warren, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district ED 262, sheet 9A.

7 William H. Beecher IV and Jim Shaw, Descendants of John Beecher 1594-1637 (On Rootsweb at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=billjim), http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=billjim&id=I1129.



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