Clayton F. Bucher ^{2 3 4 5}

  General Notes:

According to a Piney Creek church member who remembered Clayton, he was a batchelor while attending the church.

  Burial Notes:

Both of these names are on same stone: Clayton F. Bucher, Born April 11 1863, Died July 29, 1940. Paul L. Bucher, Born Oct 17, 1888, Died March 25, 1919. (Note: No spouses are buried at the church.).

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1870 in Mount Joy Twp., Adams, PA. ³ Samuel Bucher, farmer, 32, was living with wife Mary A., 30; Joseph H., 8; Clayton F., 7; Laura E., 5; Sarah J., 3; Charles W., 1. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office was Two Taverns.

2. Census in 1880 in Mount Joy Twp., Adams, PA. ² Samuel Bucher, farmer, 43, was living with wife Mary, 40; Joseph, 18; Clayton, 16; Sarah, 13; Charles, 10; Annie, 8; Lizzie, 4. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania, except Mary's mother was from Maryland.

3. Census in 1900 in Germany Twp., Adams, PA. ⁴ Samuel Bucher, farm labor, 62, born Sep 1837, was married for 40 years to Mary A., 60, May 1840. She had given birth to 8 children, 7 still alive in 1900. Living with them: Clayton, carpenter, 37, Apr 1863, widowed; Lizzie, dress maker, 24, Jun 1875, single; Morris, 18, Dec 1881, single; Paul, grandson, 12, Oct 1887.

4. Census in 1910 in Germany Twp., Adams, PA. ⁷ Samuel Buker, farmer, 72, was married for 48 years to wife Mary A., 70; son Clayton, 47, widowed; and grandson Paul, 21. Paul was born in Maryland, everyone else and their parents in Pennsylvania.

5. Census in 1920 in Germany Twp., Adams, PA. ⁸ Clayton F. Bucher, farmer, 56, widowed, was living with a servant, Sarah A. Milhames, 66, widowed.

Clayton married Laura Nevada Shoemaker, daughter of J. Ezra Shoemaker and Sarah G., on 18 Dec 1887 in , Adams, PA.¹ (Laura Nevada Shoemaker was born on 9 Sep 1866 in , Adams, PA,⁹ died on 11 Feb 1894 in , Adams, PA ⁹ and was buried in Mount Joy Twp.: St. James Reformed Church, Adams, PA ^{6 9}.)