Dr. Samuel Rex Bucher ^{2 3 4 5 6 7}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1850, Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁵ Christian Bucher, 54, physician, is living with wife Mary, 47; Samuel, physician, 23; Susan, 20; Isaac, laborer, 17; Mary, 16, and Elizabeth, 4. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Christian's house is valued at $3,000.

• Newspaper: Der Libanon Demokrat, a German language newspaper, 14 Jun 1850, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA. ¹
"Married. By the Rev. Ditzler.
On the 11th of June, Dr. Samuel R. Bucher, with Miss Katharina E. Illig, both of Schaefferstown."

[Note: Her surname reported in the newspaper is Illig, not Sheetz, so perhaps this was her second marriage?]

• Occupation: doctor, After 1855, Cedarville, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA.

• Census, 1870, Buckeye Township, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA. ¹⁰ Samuel Bucher, physician, 43, was living with wife Catharine, 40; Ida, 14; and Robert, 2. The parents were born in Pennsylvania, the children in Illinois. His home was valued at $8,000 and personal estate $2,000. The post office was Lena.

• Obituary: Freeport Weekly Journal, 30 Sep 1874, Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA. ⁸
Dr. Samuel R. Bucher
In Memorium
Alas death, the stern monarch of all things mortal has made another unrelenting demand upon us, and taken from our midst one of our most prominent citizens, Dr. Samuel R. Bucher, an eminent and skillful physician, died at his residence in Cedarville at one o'clock p.m. Thursday the 24th ult. The Doctor was born at Schaefferstown, Lebanon Co., Pa., on the 3rd of July, 1827. He graduated with honors at the Jefferson Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1849, and at once entered the practice of his profession with his father at his native town. In 1852, Dr. Bucher removed to Cedarville, in this county, where he continued the practice with great skill and success until last spring, when Dr. Johnson, of Chicago, advised him to discontinue night practice. He was a man of great and untiring energy, and of an iron constitution, but the immense strain upon that constitution during his earlier extensive practice, greatly impaired it, and for the last few months' dissolution was rapid and certain. The Doctor, during a long, successful, extended practice in Cedarville and county, had endeared to him many warm friends. The funeral obsequies were held at his late residence on last Saturday, Revs. Mr. Linn and Mr. Kleinnicht officiating. The Doctor was a prominent Mason, and an ardent admirer of the order. The funeral services were under the charge of the Sir Knights of this city, assisted by other Masonic bodies of the county, and the last earthly rites were paid the remains of the deceased from the family residence at 12 o'clock noon, in the presence of a large concourse of friends and citizens. The decease leaves a wife and one daughter, Ida, aged 18 years, and two sons, Eugene, aged 22, and Robert, aged 6 years, to mourn their great bereavement. We condole with the family in this their season of great affliction.

Samuel married Catherine E. Sheetz, daughter of Sheetz and Sarah Brown, on 11 Jun 1850 in Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA.¹ (Catherine E. Sheetz was born on 27 Mar 1831 in Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA,¹¹ died on 6 Aug 1918 in Cedarville, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA ^{11 12} and was buried in Cedarville: Cedarville Cemetery, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA.)