Jacob Risser Bucher ^{1 2 3}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1860, Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. ² Jonas Bucher, occupation "gentleman", 77, was living with Susanna, 74. His real estate was worth $1,800 and possessions $250. At the same property was the household of Joseph Bucher, farmer, 40, and his wife Catherine, 37; Fanny, 18; Christian, 15; Joseph, 12; Susanna, 10; and Jacob, 7. Joseph's real estate was worth $12,000 and possessions $2,000. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The Brubakers and Reists were neighbors. The post office was Lititz.

• Census, 1870, Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. ¹ Joseph Bucher, farmer, 50, was living with Catharine, 48; Jacob, 17; Susan, 20; Henry, 8; Catharine, 6; and Barbara, 4. Also living with them: domestic servants Barbara Shank, 41, and Isaac Carpenter, 19. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office was Rothsville. Joseph's real estate was valued at $25,000, one of the richest in Lancaster County, and his possessions worth $2,000.

• Census, 1880, Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁴ Jacob Bucher, farmer, 26, was living with wife Mary, 22, and son John, 3. Also with them: Jesse Drybread, farm laborer, 20; and Mary Hilten, servant, 15. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

• Census, 1900, Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. ³ Jacob R. Bucher, farmer, 47, born Oct 1852, was married for 24 years to Mary B., 42, Feb 1858. She had birthed 4 children, all alive in 1900. With them: Jacob H., 11, Nov 1888; and Mary, 6, May 1894. Also in their home: Catharine, mother, 96, Sep 1803, widowed, who had birthed one child; and Mary B. Bucher, servant, 28, Jun 1869. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

• Residence, 1914, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁵ The Farmer's Directory of Lancaster County for 1914 listed:
Pages 50-51:
Bucher, Jacob R. farmer O 60a Lititz.

Jacob married Mary B. Hess, daughter of John Huber Hess and Elizabeth Brubaker, on 2 Nov 1875. (Mary B. Hess was born on 9 Feb 1858 in , Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA ^{3 4} and died in 1940.)