Catharine Beecher

   Other names for Catharine were Catherine Bicher and Catherine Bucher.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Residence: a farm they called "Brook Haven": Sadsbury Township: Atglen, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Pension, 1854. ² Following in a copy of a letter from U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, received by Mrs. Harry Kennett McAdams, 309 N. Broadway, Lexington, KY. [Ms. McAdams is a descendent.]

"I advise you that form the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension Claim, S.39982, it appears that John Beecher, or Becher, enlisted in Lebanon, in what was later Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, April, 1788, served as a Private in Captain Meng's Company, Colonel Benjamin Flowers Artillery Artificers Regiment and was discharged April 3, 1779.

"He was allowed a Pension on his application executed November 28, 1818, while a resident of Berne Township, Berks County, Pa., aged over fifty-six years. He died March 22, 1819.

"Soldier's wife, Mary Ann Beecher, died November 11, 1837. Her maiden name and date of marriage not stated.

"In 1854, Jacob Nyswender and Henry Carpenter stated in Columbus, Ohio, that the following were the children and only heirs of said John and Mary Ann Beecher:

"John Beecher, of Berks County, Pa.

"William Beecher and Barbara Nyswender, both of Franklin County, Ohio.

"Margaret Mulliner, of Philadelphia, Pa.

"Benjamin Beecher, Jacob Beecher, and Catherine Paxon, all of Chester Co., Pa.

"Samuel Beecher, of Lancaster Co., Pa.

"Lydia Cook, of Clark Co., Va.

"There is no record in this bureau of land having been granted by the United States, on account of the service of the above named Revolutionary War Soldier, John Beecher, or Becher.

"Respectfully,
Winfield Scott, Commissioner, Rev. and 1812 Wars Section."

• Book: Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records, 1929. ² Catherine married Mr. Paxon, Chester Co., Pa.; died, aged 71; had 14 children.

Catharine married Jonathan Paxson, son of Joseph Paxson and Mary Heston, on 4 May 1804. (Jonathan Paxson was born on 26 May 1775 in Carversville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA and died on 14 Sep 1841 in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.)