Elias Beecher ^{2 3}

   Another name for Elias was Eli Beecher.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Birth, Abt 1842, , , Pennsylvania, USA. ⁴

• Census, 1850, Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania, USA. ³ In the 1850 Census on the same page in Manheim Township are two families whose children later marry: Elias Beecher and Ann Mary Snyder.

In the household of Daniel Snyder, age 40, brickmaster, is his wife Elizabeth, 36; Edward, 16; Sophia, 14; Susana, 13; Levi, 12; Ann M. 11; William, 9; Daniel, 7; John, 6; and Francis, 2. Everyone is born in Pennsylvania except Daniel in Maryland.

In the houseold of Levi Beecher, age 37, farmer, is his wife Eve, 37; Elias, 9; Noah, 4. Also in the home is a David Geiger, 15. Levi has no real estate because he is living on land owned by his neighbor, his father, John Beecher, 70; his mother, Ann, 66; and their daughter Susan, 31, as well as a Mary Fisher, age 15. John's real estate is valued at $4,000.

• Census, 1870, Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁵ In the 1870 Census in Manheim Township is listed Elias Becker [mispelling by Census enumerator], age 29, labourer, living with wife Anna Mary, 20, and son Levi, 2. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. He had no real estate and his possessions are worth $200.

• Census, 1910, Franklin Township, Morrow County, Ohio, USA. ⁴ The census recorded that Noah M. Beecher, vetinary dentist, 63, was married to his second wife, Emily J., 28, her first marriage. She had given birth to one child, apparently not living with them. Also in the home: Leona M. Beecher, 24, presumed by her age to be a daughter by Noah's first marriage; and Noah's brother, farm laborer Elias, 68. Noah was renting the home. Noah and Elias and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. Emily was born in Maryland, her father "German" and her mother "English."

• Census, 1920, Gilead Township: Morrow County Infirmary, Morrow County, Ohio, USA. ⁶ In the 1920 Census in the Morrow County Infirmary (Paupers) in Gilead Township on the list of inmates appears: Elias Beecher, 82, single. In the columns to indicate if he could read or write, the entry is "no". He and his parents were born in Pennsylvania. His occupation was "none."

Elias married Mary H. Snyder, daughter of Daniel Snyder and Elizabeth, on 18 Nov 1866 in , York County, Pennsylvania, USA.¹ (Mary H. Snyder was born about 1839 in , , Pennsylvania, USA ³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Newspaper: The Press, 29 Nov 1866, York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA. Their marriage notice read: "Beecher, Eli - Snyder, Mary Ann (both of Manheim) Nov 18 1866 Rev. J.D. Zehring."