Reuben Beecher ^{2 3}

   Other names for Reuben were Reuben Beacher and Reuben Bucher.

  Burial Notes:

Reuben's surname is Bucher on his tombstone.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1850, Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁴ William Beacher, age 33, blacksmith, is living with wife Sarah, also 33; Reuben, 11; Mary, 7; John, 3; Levi, 1; Mary, 23; Harrison, 17, also a blacksmith. The second Mary is too old to be his daughter, so she must be a sister? Harrison is probably a brother? Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

• Census, 1860, Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. ² William Beecher, 42, blacksmith, is listed in the 1860 Census in Lower Heidelberg Township in Berks County with real estate valued at $350 and possessions worth $175. With him is Sarah, 43; Reuben, 21, mason; Mary, 17; John, 13; and Levi, 11. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office is listed as Stouchsburgh.

• Census, 1870, South Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. ³ Three Beechers are found on page 423 of the 1870 Census in South Heidelberg Township in Berks County. The post office is Wernersville.

William Beecher, age 52, blacksmith, is living with wife Sarah, 52; Levi, 21; and Ellen, 16. With them is a Sarah Strunk, age 4, and Harrison Beecher, 37, no occupation listed. William's real estate is valued at $1,800 and his possessions worth $400.

Reuben Beecher, 30, farm laborer, is living with wife Emma, 26, and George L., 7 months old, born in Oct. 1869. He has no real estate and $400 of possessions.
Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. They are living next to Benjamin Yocum, who is Emma's brother.

• Book: Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County Pennsylvania, 1909. ⁶
The early history of the Yocom family will be found in the sketch of Harry Y. Yocom, grandson of Nicholas Yocom.

George Yocom, son of Nicholas, was born in Cumru township Oct. 3, 1803. He was an iron worker by trade, and he and his father bought the old Spohn estate in Lower Heidelberg township, consisting of 101 acres of the best land in the county. Here he engaged in farming until his son Benjamin took charge, and he then retired to Sinking Spring, where he died Aug. 17, 1881, aged seventy-seven years, ten months, fourteen days. He is buried in the cemetery at Sinking Spring.

His wife Catharine Hemmig, daughter of John and Susanna Hemmig, was born Dec. 23, 1805, and she died April 21, 1874, aged sixty-eight years, three months, twenty-nine days. Their children were: William, a farmer near Stouchsburg, married Mary Potteiger; Aaron, a flour merchant in Reading, married (first) Hannah Manery and (second) Kate Heffer; Sarah married Frederick Graeff; Amanda died unmarried; Amos, a shoemaker and farmer, married Isabella Miller (1843-1885); Benjamin is mentioned below; Lizzie married Aaron Fox, a butcher at Sinking Spring; Anna married Reuben Beecher, formerly at Wernersville.

Reuben married Emma Yocum, daughter of George Yocum and Catherine Hemming, <1879>.¹ (Emma Yocum was born in Sep 1843 in South Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA ^{1 3} and was buried in Sinking Spring: Sinking Spring Cemetery, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA.)