Emma Marks
(1851-1937)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Samuel Diemer Bucher

Emma Marks 2 3 4

  • Born: 1851, , , Pennsylvania, USA 2 3 4
  • Marriage (1): Samuel Diemer Bucher on 24 May 1868 in Catawissa: St. John's Lutheran Church, Columbia, PA 1
  • Died: 3 Apr 1937, South Danville, Northumberland, PA at age 86 2 4
  • Buried: Riverside: Kase Cemetery, Northumberland, PA 2

   FamilySearch ID: 2CY7-TFH.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1880 in South Danville, Northumberland, PA. 3 Samuel Bucher, 33, carpenter, is living with Emma, 30; Clara, 8; Sallie, 4; and Frank, 2. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

2. Census in 1920 in Riverside, Northumberland, PA. 5 Living on Avenue E. in Riverside in 1920 is Samuel D. Bucher, 74, carpenter for a lumber company. He is with his wife Emma L., 69, and granddaughter Bertell, 8. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

3. Obituary: Sunbury Daily Item newspaper on 3 Apr 1937 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. 4 Headline: Ex-resident, Dies at S. Danville

Mrs. Emma Bucher, 86, mother of Miss Elizabeth Bucher, clerk in the office of the Register and Recorder at the local court house, passed away at 1:30 a.m. Saturday in her home at Riverside. She had been ill for the past 17 months.

She was the widow of Samuel Bucher, who died nine years to the day on which his widow died. She is a former resident of Sunbury, and had many friends here who mourn her passing.

The deceased was a member of the Methodist church. She is survived by the two daughters, Mrs. Clara Wolverton, and Miss Elizabeth Bucher of Sunbury; a sister, Mrs. George W. Roat of Danville.

Private funeral services will be held from the late home on Avenue E. at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. Kenneth Gearhart, rector of Christ Episcopal church, Danville, will officiate and burial will be made in the Kase cemetery, Riverside.


Emma married Samuel Diemer Bucher, son of George W. Bucher and Sarah Diemer, on 24 May 1868 in Catawissa: St. John's Lutheran Church, Columbia, PA.1 (Samuel Diemer Bucher was born on 25 Dec 1845 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA,2 3 6 died on 3 Apr 1928 2 4 and was buried in Riverside: Kase Cemetery, Northumberland, PA.)


Sources


1 FamilySearch.org, "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940," https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V2X6-S1F Samuel D. Beicher and Emma Marks, 1868.

2 Gearhart, Heber G., Heber G. Gearhart Collection (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.), Bucher families of Pennsylvania and Maryland, call slip FC BU.

3 1880 United States Census, FHL Film 1255164; National Archives Film T9-1164; Page 400A.

4 The Daily Item (Sunbury, PA), April 3, 1937 Edition.

5 1920 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Northumberland County, Riverside, Series: T625 Roll: 1611 Page: 8.

6 1850 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Centre County, Snowshoe Township, Series: M432 Roll: 763 Page: 277.



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