John Beecher ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

   Other names for John were John Bicher ^{9 10} and John Biecher.⁷

   FamilySearch ID: KCVF-FL4.

  Birth Notes:

The church record book for his 1830 baptism records his birth as 6 Aug with no year.

  Burial Notes:

At Riverside Cemetery there are also buried many desendants of Cyrenius (Cyrus, Cyrenes) Beecher (Dec 1823, 22 Sep 1901) who are not related to John Beecher (1830, 1915). Y-DNA tests prove these Beecher lines are different.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1860 in East Cocalico Twp., Lancaster, PA. ¹¹ The 1860 Census recorded John Bicher, age 29, living as a tenant in the household of Susana Ruth, age 63, widow. Living with John are Julian (probably Julia M. but this is how the census taker wrote it down) age 31; Alice, 4; and William, 2. John's occupation is machinery. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Susana's real estate was valued $650 and person estate $620. John's personal estate was $200. The post office was Reamstown.

2. Military Draft: Civil War Draft Registration: Bicher John age 35 machinist, 15 Jul 1863, East Cocalico Twp., Lancaster, PA. ¹⁰

3. Census in 1870 in Sterling, Whiteside, IL. ¹² The 1870 census recorded John Bucher [sic], implement woodwork agent, 40, living with wife Julia, 40; Alice, 14; William, 12; and mother-in-law Susan Ruth, 70. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office was Sterling, Illinois.

4. Census in 1880 in Sterling, Whiteside, IL. ² John Beecher, 50, farmer, was living with Juliann, 50; Alice, 21, millener; and Susan Ruth, mother, 80. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

5. Residence: on 7 May 1899 in Sterling, Whiteside, IL. ¹³

6. Census in 1900 in Sterling, Whiteside, IL. ³ Living at 307 9th Avenue in Sterling was John Beecher, 69, born Sep 1830, was living with wife Julia A., 70, born Jan 1830. She had given birth to two children, one still alive in 1900 and living with them: daughter Alice W., 45, born Sep 1854. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania, as were their parents.

7. Census in 1910 in Sterling, Whiteside, IL. ¹⁴ The 1910 census recorded at 307 9th Avenue: John Bucher [indexed wrong], widowed, 78, living with daughter Alice, 40. They and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

8. Obituary: Ephrata Review: obituary of John Beecher, Sterling, Illinois on 19 Mar 1915 in Ephrata, Lancaster, PA. ⁶ A copy of the Sterling, Ill., Daily Standard, of March 15, received at this office on Wednesday, conveys the sad intelligence of the death in that city on Friday last, 12th inst., of John Beecher. He was in his eighty-fifth year, having been born in Adamstown, this county, on September 6, 1830. He married Julia Ruth of Reamstown, and in 1867, with his little family moved to Sterling, Ill., which has been his home ever since. A good mechanic, he worked for many years in the Keystone shop at Rock Falls, and then engaged in farming for a number of years. He sold his farm some years ago, and had since then lived retired. His wife, a son and daughter, William and Alice, their only children, are dead, the latter having passed away in 1913. One brother of the deceased, Benjamin Beecher, resides in Oklahoma. A number of nephews and nieces reside in Adamstown and vicinity. Mr. Beecher was highly esteemed in his Ill. home and was a regular attendant at the services in the Presbyterian church, that city. Ha was a regular reader of the Ephrata Review, having been a subscriber to the paper since the early years of its publication.

9. Newspaper: Lebanon Daily News: "Lebanon Folk To Share In The Estate Of John Biecher, Who Died Recently at Sterling, Illinois", 12 Apr 1915, Lebanon, Lebanon, PA. ¹⁵ Lebanon Folk To Share In The Estate Of John Biecher
Who Died Recently at Sterling, Illinois
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Left $20,000 Estate
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Thomas Stains and Benjamin Biecher Some of Heirs
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Tomas Stains, formerly a hotel man of the city and now engaged as a clerk at the Hotel Willow, and his cousin, Benjamin Biecher, the Tenth and Walnut street grocer, will leave on Wednesday morning for Sterling, Illinois, to take the necessary steps to claim part of a small fortune which is coming to them and other relatives hereabouts.

LEFT BY JOHN BIECHER

The estate was left by the late John Biecher, an Illinois farmer, who left Lebanon county when he was quite a boy and lived on the farm until a few years before his death. He left an estate of something over $20,000, which is now about to be distributed, and an audit hearing will be held on Friday of this week at the county seat, at which time the heirs can be present to make objections if there be any. In this case it is expected there will be no trouble in the ajudication of the estate and Messrs. Stains and Biecher will merely be present to take note of the proceedings, and to represent the several heirs located in this region.

IN FIVE SHARES

The decedent left his town house to his housekeeper, and left only $300 to a son whose present whereabouts are unknown. The rest of the real and personal property, including the farm, etc., is divided by the will into a number of shares -- about five, one of which goes in its entirety to a brother living in the west, and the others to Biecher and Stains here.

STAINS AND BIECHER

Thomas Stains, Millard Stains, and Mrs. Milton Hershberger, are children of the late Mrs. Sarah Stains, who was a sister to John Biecher, the decedent, and Benjamin Biecher is a son of the late George Biecher, who was a brother of the decedent.

John Biecher left this region many years ago, as he was engaged in farming in Illinois for over forty years, and he was therefore remembered only to the older generation in this locality.
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John married Juliana M. Ruth, daughter of Jacob Ruth and Susannah Johns, about 1854 in , Lancaster, PA. (Juliana M. Ruth was born on 2 Jan 1830 in Reamstown, Lancaster, PA,^{3 16} died on 31 Dec 1906 in Sterling, Whiteside, IL ¹⁶ and was buried on 2 Jan 1907 in Sterling: Riverside Cemetery, Whiteside, IL ¹⁶.)