Ella Beecher

   Other names for Ella were Ella Beacher and Ella Beacher.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 1890, Union Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. ² Listing in the 1890 Census Index for East Union Township:
BEACHER Ella. Brandonville. Edith; William J., 16.

• Book: Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County Pennsylvania, 1909. ⁴ Ella Beacher's father in law was written about:
John Joseph Conrad Keppelman, father of John H., was born in 1827, in Baden-Baden, Germany, where he learned the trade of locksmith. He emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1848, and located at Pottsville, but he remained there only a short while when he moved to Reading and engaged in the foundry business which he carried on quite extensively for many years, having established and operated very successfully three plants, the first on North Sixth street, the second on North Fifth street and the third in Riverside. He died in 1907. He married Christina Bauer, daughter of John and Wilhelmina (Beltz) Bauer, of Reading, by whom he had ten children: William m. Ella Brown; John H. (above); Emma m. Dr. Samuel Ermentrout; Edward m. Ella Beacher; Howard m. Ida Seiders; Ida m. Joseph Veasey; Katharine m. Dr. F. X. Wolf; Albert m. Catharine Schroeder; Theodore m. Sallie Rowe; and Florence m. Howard Frees.

• Census, 1880, Choconut, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, USA. ¹ John Beacher, farmer, 65, is living with wife Hannora, 50; Paterick, 21; John 15; Joseph, 12; Thomas, 10; and Ella, 18. Father John was born in Ireland and everyone else in Pennsylvania. Hannora's parents were also from Ireland.

Ella married Edward Keppelman, son of John Joseph Conrad Keppelman and Christina Bauer.