Helen Elizabeth Beecher ^{1 2 3}

   FamilySearch ID: L69K-911.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1910 in Coatesville, Chester, PA. ⁴ The 1910 census recorded renting a home at 291 S. 1st Street: Herbert E. Beecher, laborer steel mill, 25, living with wife Mae E., 19; Helen E., 2; and Herbert E., 4 months. Herbert and Mae were married for 5 years and she had birthed 2 children by 1900. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

2. Census in 1920 in West Chester, Chester, PA. ⁵ The 1920 census recorded owning a home at 308 W. Chestnut Street: John Jackson, house painter, 33, living with wife May, 28; son Lawrence Jackson, 4; son Joseph Jackson, 9 months; and step-daughter Helen Beecher, 12. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

3. Newspaper: Indiana Evening Gazette: West Chester: Every effort was being made by police to find traces of Helen Beecher, 16, who disappeared from her home at Rocky Hill yesterday on an errand to a grocery store. Foul play is feared., 17 May 1924, Indiana, Indiana, PA. ⁶ West Chester: Every effort was being made by police to find traces of Helen Beecher, 16, who disappeared from her home at Rocky Hill yesterday on an errand to a grocery store. Foul play is feared.

4. Newspaper: The Inquirer: Chester Police Search For Lost Girl, 18 May 1924, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. ⁷ CHESTER COUNTY POLICE SEARCH FOR LOST GIRL
Former Aid Society's Charge Failed to Return to Her Home Thursday
WEST CHESTER, May 17. Police of Chester county are searching for Helen Beecher, 16, a ward of Mrs. B. Radiochi. of near Rocky Hill, the girl having been lost since Thursday evening, when she started for Rocky Hill to purchase bread. The girl is large for her age, well developed and good-looking. Until last autumn she was a pupil at the Rocky Hill school. Her parents formerly lived in West Chester, but both died and she was taken by the Children's Aid Society, Philadelphia. She had no close male friends as far as is known. A quarter of a mile from the store is a tract of woodland bordering the road and she was seen to pass through this to the north side by Mary Esbin. The girl looked back and saw Helen followed a few hundred yards in the rear. Her disappearance was not reported until last night and then neighbors searched without result. A theory that the girl had gone to the home of relatives in Coatesville was explored by officers. Members of the family think the girl has been carried off by a motoring party.

5. Newspaper: The News-Herald: Girl Missing Since Last Thursday Returns Home, 19 May 1924, Franklin, Chester, PA. ⁸ GIRL MISSING SINCE LAST THURSDAY RETURNS HOME; ONLY VISITED GRAND DAD
WEST CHESTER, Pa., May 19. Helen Beecher, missing from here since Thursday, has returned. She went to visit her grandfather, Eber Hampton, on a nearby farm and appeared to be unaware of the fact that she was causing a thorough search for her to be made of the neighborhood. Last Thursday Helen was sent to a store for provisions. She failed to arrive there and the general search started.

6. Residence: on 20 Jun 1925 in Cedar Knoll, Chester, PA. ²

7. Census in 1930 in West Caln Twp., Chester, PA. ⁹ The 1930 census recorded renting a home on Martins Corner Road: Franklin Trumbower, merchant general store, 28, living with wife Helen, 22; Elaine, 3; and Gloria, 1. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

8. Obituary: in 1996. She is survived by one son, Harold Trumbower of Modena (PA); four daughters, B. Elaine Hartman of Santa Ana, Calif., Gloria M. Hollinger (b. 1929?) of York, Shirley A. Shearer of West Chester and Cynthia R. Howe (b. 1927?) of Coatesville; one half-brother, Larry Jackson of Coatesville; one half-sister, Grace M.(Jackson) Raudenbush of Harrisburg; 23 grand children; 61 great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Arlene Lang; one grandson; one brother (Harold Beecher) and one half-brother (Joseph Jackson).

Helen married David Franklin Trumbower, son of Jesse Sahler Trumbower and Laura Lenora Bernard, on 20 Jun 1925 in Wagontown, Chester, PA.^{1 2} (David Franklin Trumbower was born on 4 Oct 1901 in Wagontown, Chester, PA ^{1 2 10 11}, christened on 16 Jun 1907 in Downingtown, Chester, PA ¹¹ and died on 4 Mar 1991 in West Chester, Chester, PA ¹⁰.)