Emma Youst ^{3 4 5}

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 1910, Tulare, Tulare County, California, USA. ³ Renting at 373 King St: William J. Beecher, 33, was married for 9 years to wife Emma, 26. She had given birth to 11 children, 6 alive in 1910. Living with them: Anne, 7; Willie, 6; Arthur, 5; May, 3; John, 2; and William's father, Hiram, 68, widowed. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. No one had an occupation.

• Census, 1920, Castroville, Monterey County, California, USA. ⁶ William J. Beecher, laborer in salt works, 43, was living with wife Emma, 36; William J., 16; Arthur, 14; May, 13; John L., 11; and Benjamin Franklin, 10. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. William was renting his home, and had served in World War I.

[Note: since Benjamin was not listed in the 1910 Census when the family was living in Tulare, CA, and he was born in 1910, we assume his actual birthplace is Tulare and not Pennsylvania as listed in the 1920 Census.]

Emma married William Jacob Beecher Sr., son of Hiram Beecher and Henrietta Jacobs, on 13 Dec 1900 in Mount Carmel Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA.^{1 2} (William Jacob Beecher Sr. was born on 24 May 1876 in Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA,^{3 7 8 9 10 11} died on 17 Feb 1951 in Monterey, Monterey County, California, USA ⁹ and was buried in Pacific Grove: El Carmelo Cemetery, Monterey County, California, USA ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

They were married by Rev. F. Weiss according to the marriage certificate. ¹⁰