Peter Bucher
(Abt 1800-)
Susanna
Samuel S. Bucher
(1825-1879)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Margaret Rittenour Stephens

Samuel S. Bucher 2 3 4

  • Born: 19 Sep 1825, Middletown, Frederick, MD 3 4
  • Christened: 22 Apr 1826, Middletown: Lutheran Congregation Of Zion Church, Frederick, MD 3
  • Marriage (1): Margaret Rittenour Stephens on 14 Apr 1846 in Middletown, Frederick, MD 1
  • Died: 15 Jun 1879, Westport, Jackson, MO at age 53
  • Buried: Kansas City: Union Cemetery, Jackson, MO 5

   FamilySearch ID: KLM9-TL8.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1850 in , Clarke, VA. 6 Situated only about 10 miles from his birthplace of Middletown, Maryland, in the 1850 Census Samuel Bucher was recorded in the 1850 census in Clarke County as Samuel Booker, shoe maker, 30, with wife Mary, 25; Mary E., 2; and Miriam, 3 months old when the census was recorded on 7 Aug 1850. Also in the home was Letty Stephens, 19, Samuel's sister-in-law. [While not stated in the census, they were in Berryville, Virginia.].

2. Residence: in 1852 in Westport, Jackson, MO.

3. Cause of Death: 15 Jun 1879, Westport, Jackson, MO. Samuel Bucher was murdered while serving as the Marshal of Westport, Missouri. He was killed by Wes Gossard, a telegraph operator who worked at the Coates House, two weeks after Marshal Bucher had been in a fight with him. Gossard was caught as he tried to escape by the marshal's son-in-law, Preson Erwin.

See "Marshall of Westport, Missouri, Murdered", article from the Kansas City Mail, on file at the Kansas City Library. See http://localhistory.kclibrary.org/u?/Local,22723.


Samuel married Margaret Rittenour Stephens, daughter of William Stephens and Mary Cooper, on 14 Apr 1846 in Middletown, Frederick, MD.1 (Margaret Rittenour Stephens was born on 12 Jan 1827 in Stephens City, Frederick, VA, died on 10 Apr 1915 in Kansas City, Jackson, MO and was buried in Kansas City: Union Cemetery, Jackson, MO.)

Sources

1 Stephens, Dan Voorhees, Stephens family genealogies: Peter--Joshua--William--Alexander, 1690-1938 (Hammond & Stephens Co., 1940.), Page 683.

2 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) (Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of December 14, 2005), Batch #: C507591, Sheet #: 00, Source Call #: 0013200 IT 6, Printout Call #: 1002753, Dates: 1780 - 1827.

3 Zahn, C. T. (Charles T.), Church record of the Lutheran congregation of Zion Church at Middletown, near Frederick, Md. (Batch #: C507591, Sheet #: 00, Source Call #: 0013200 IT 6, Printout Call #: 1002753, Dates: 1780 - 1827. International Genealogical Index (R). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of December 14, 2005.).

4 Maryland, Births and Christenings, 1650-1995 (www.FamilySearch.org), (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F488-78L Samuel Bucher, 19 Sep 1825; citing reference , FHL microfilm 13200.

5 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=23493.

6 1850 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M88B-Q98 Mary E Booker in household of Samuel Booker, Clarke county, Clarke, Virginia, United States; citing dwelling 336, family 336, NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 940.


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