William Nicholas Bucher ^{3 4 5 6}

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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1870 in Mount Pleasant Twp., Adams, PA. ³ Jacob Bucher, farmer, 33, was living with wife Catharine, 30; Florence E., 11; Wiliam N., 8; Charles W., 7; Harriet G., 4; and Sarah F., 2. He has no real estate value, suggesting he is working someones land.

Next door is Jesse Bucher, day laborer, 29, and his wife Margaret, 22, with no children. She was born in Canada, everyone else was born in Pennsylvania. The post office is Granite Hill.

2. Census in 1880 in Straban Twp., Adams, PA. ⁴ Jacob Booker, farmer, 46, was living without his wife. The children with him: William N., 18; Charles W., 17; Harriet I., 14; Sarah A., 12; John L., 10; Mary V., 7; Horace E., 5; and Earnest V., 3. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania, except Mary was born in North Carolina.

3. Census in 1900 in Nachusa Twp., Lee, IL. ⁵ William N. Bucher, laborer 37, born Sep 1862, was married for 14 years to wife Catherine A., 45, Oct 1854. She had birthed 2 children: Edith V., 13; Dec 1886; and Lewis J., 11, Oct 1888. Edith, Lewis, William and his parents were born in Pennsylvania. Catherine was born in Maryland, her father in Germany, and mother in England. William was renting his home.

William married Erma Catherine Horst, daughter of Conrad Horst and Unknown, on 24 Dec 1885 in Abbottstown: St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Adams, PA.^{1 2} (Erma Catherine Horst was born on 31 Oct 1852 in Hanover, York, PA,⁷ died on 25 Dec 1937 in Franklin Grove, Lee, IL ⁷ and was buried on 29 Dec 1937 in Franklin Grove, Lee, IL ⁷.)