Grace Victoria Stouffer ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   Another name for Grace was Grace Victorine Beecher.⁷

   FamilySearch ID: LHHC-XC1.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1900 in Upper Dickinson Twp., Cumberland, PA. ⁸ The 1900 census recorded Cyrus Stouffer, farmer, 38, born Nov 1861, living with wife Annie E., 33, Jul 1866. They were married for 16 years and she had birthed 7 children, 5 alive in 1900. Living with them: son John H., 15, Aug 1884; James E., 14, Apr 1886; Grave V., 10, Dec 1889; William H., 9, Feb 1891; and Mary A., 2, Jul 1897. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

2. Census in 1920 in Penn Twp., Cumberland, PA. ⁹ The 1920 census recorded renting a home on Pine Road: Harry E. Beecher, farmer, 34, living with wife Grace, 31, and daughter Vesta R., 2. Everyone and there parents were born in Pennsylvania.

3. Census in 1930 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ¹⁰ The 1930 census recorded owning a home at 246 A Street: Harry Beecher, house carpenter, 44, living with wife Grace, 41; and daughter Vesta R., 13. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

4. Census in 1940 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ¹¹ The 1940 census recorded owning a home at 246 A Street: Harry Beecher, carpenter, 53, living with wife Grace, 51; daughter Vesta Mayberry, 23, and her husband Floyd Mayberry, 31.

5. Census in 1950 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ¹² The 1950 census recorded at 246 A Street: Harry Beecher, carpenter building contractor, living with wife Grace, 61. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

6. Residence: 1953 Carlisle City Directory: Beecher, Harry (Grace S.) carpenter, h 246 A. Street, Carlisle, Pa. in 1953 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ¹³

7. Cause of Death: cancer of pancreas and liver, 2 Aug 1959, Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ³

8. Residence: 246 A St., Carlisle, PA on 2 Aug 1959 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ³

9. Obituary: The Sentinel: obituary of Mrs. Harry J. Beecher on 3 Aug 1959 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ⁷ -----
Mrs. Harry J. Beecher
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Mrs. Grace Victorine Beecher, wife of Harry J. Beecher, 246 A Street, died last night at her home. She was 70 years old. She was the daughter of the late Cyrus and Annie Myers Stouffer. She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church and attended the Community Baptist Church.

Besides her husband, she is survived by one brother, Harper Stouffer, Clinton. Iowa, and one sjster, Mrs. J. R. Horn. Carlisle.

Funeral services will be held in the Lutz-Hoffman Funeral Home, 219 North Hanover Street, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Rev. Harry L. Lindsay Jr., will officiate. Burial will be in the Westminster Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday.

Grace married Harry John Beecher, son of Samuel J. Beecher and Adaliah Lillie Verene Wolf, on 2 May 1911 in Centerville, Cumberland, PA.¹ (Harry John Beecher was born on 14 May 1886 in Penn Twp., Cumberland, PA ^{5 12 14 15}, christened on 6 Mar 1904 in Shippensburg: United Methodist Church, Cumberland, PA,¹⁶ died on 16 Jan 1974 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA ^{5 15 17} and was buried on 19 Jan 1974 in Carlisle: Westminster Memorial Gardens, Cumberland, PA ^{5 15}.)