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Sophia Fiddler
(Abt 1825-1886)

 

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Peter Bucher

Sophia Fiddler 1 2 3 4

  • Born: Abt 1825, , Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA 2 3
  • Marriage: Peter Bucher on 10 Nov 1851 in , Richland County, Ohio, USA 1
  • Died: 1886, , Van Wert County, Ohio, USA about age 61 4
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bullet  Noted events in her life were:

• Alt. Birth, Abt 1832. 5 The 1880 census reported her age was 48.

• Census, 1860, Franklin Township, Richland County, Ohio, USA. 2 Peter Bucher, farmer, 59, was living with wife Sophia, seamstress, 35; Joseph P., farmer, 21; Samuel L., 7; Albert F., 5; Lydia C., 4; and Adeline, 1. The parents were born in Pennsylvania, eveyone else in Ohio. His real estate was worth $8,000 and personal estate $1,800. The post office was Mansfield - Ganges.

• Census, 1870, Pleasant Township, Van Wert County, Ohio, USA. 3 Peter Bucher, farmer, 69, was living with Sophia, 45; Samuel L., farm laborer, 17; Albert F., 14; Lydia C., 13; Adelaine, 11; Oliver, 9; Alice, 7; and Ida, 5. The children were born in Ohio, and Peter and Sophia in Pennsylvania. His real estate was worth $4,000 and personal estate $700. The post office was Van Wert.

• Census, 1880, Pleasant Township, Van Wert County, Ohio, USA. 5 Peter Bucher, retired farmer, 79, was living with Sophia, 48; daughter Ida, 16; and Alice, 17. Peter and Sophia were born in Pennsylvania, Ida and Alice in Ohio. Everyone's parents were born in Pennsylvania.


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Sophia married Peter Bucher, son of John Casper Bucher and Elizabeth Lang, on 10 Nov 1851 in , Richland County, Ohio, USA.1 (Peter Bucher was born on 3 Jul 1801 in , Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA 4 6 7 8, christened in Lower Paxton Township: Wenrich Church, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA 7 and died on 24 Jul 1880 in Pleasant Township, Van Wert County, Ohio, USA 4 9.)
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Sources

1 Ohio Marriages, 1803-1900
 (Subscription database on www.Ancestry.com, a compilation of marriage records from counties in Ohio.)

2 1860 United States Census, Ohio, Richland County, Franklin Township, Series: M653 Roll: 1029 Page: 366.

3 1870 United States Census, Ohio, Van Wert County, Pleasant Township, Series: M593 Roll: 1275 Page: 314.

4 A Portrait and biographical record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio : containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative citizens : together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States, and biographies of the governors of Ohio. (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1896, 1458 pgs.

), Page 560, 565.

5 1880 United States Census, Ohio, Van Wert County, Pleasant Township, Family History Library Film 1255073, NA Film Number T9-1073, Page 323B.

6 Long, William Gabriel, History of the Long Family of Pennsylvania (1930.)

7 Nevin Moyer and Earle W. Lingle, Records of Wenrich's Reformed Church (now St. Thomas United Church of Christ), Lower Paxton Township. Cemetery Records; Baptisms, 1791-1938. (Dauphin County Church Records, Vol. 8. Repository: Pennsylvania State Library, Genealogy Room, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Email from Wenrich Church, Kathie Gifford, 9 Nov 2005.

8 Long, William Gabriel, History of the Long Family of Pennsylvania (1930.), Page 111.

9 Eisenhart, Willis W, Abott-Adlum-Green Families (1957. Copy obtained from Dauphin County Historical Society.), Page 30.

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