Isaac Beecher
(1806-1873)
Mary Amanda Shaw
(1810-1894)
Anthony Robert Beecher
(Abt 1838-)
Margaret Ann Beisel
(1842-1922)
Mary Margaret Beecher
(1872-1914)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Homer M. Nelson

Mary Margaret Beecher 1 2 3

  • Born: 18 Jun 1872, Lima Twp., LaGrange, IN 2 3
  • Marriage (1): Homer M. Nelson on 23 Sep 1907 in , LaGrange, IN 1
  • Died: 1914, Lagrange, LaGrange, IN at age 42 4 5
  • Buried: Lagrange: Greenwood Cemetery, LaGrange, IN 5

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1880 in Lagrange, LaGrange, IN. 2 Robert Beecher, butcher, 42, was living with wife Arbet, 37; Mary 8; Alice, 3; and servant Ellen McLera. Robert and his parents were born in Pennsylvania. Arbet, her parents, and her children were born in Indiana.

2. Census in 1900 in Lagrange, LaGrange, IN. 3 Margaret Beecher is indexed as Bucher in the 1900 census, since the two ee's look like u in handwriting. She is 57, born Sep 1842, and had birthed 5 children, 2 alive in 1900. Living with her: daughter Mary M., 27, Jun 1872, single; and daughter Nillie, 28, Sep 1876, single. They were born in Indiana, and the children's father in Pennsylvania. Margaret's father was born in Pennsylvania and her mother in Ireland.

3. Census in 1910 in Lagrange, LaGrange, IN. 6 The 1910 census recorded Homer M. Nelson, 39, living with wife Mary M., 37, and son Ralph B. Nelson, 3.


Mary married Homer M. Nelson, son of Jonathan Nelson and Rebecca Slater, on 23 Sep 1907 in , LaGrange, IN.1 (Homer M. Nelson was born on 8 Apr 1872 in Warrensburg, Johnson, MO,7 died on 14 May 1937 in Pawnee, Pawnee, OK 7 and was buried in Pawnee: Highland Cemetery, Pawnee, OK 7.)


Sources


1 LaGrange County Courthouse, LaGrange, Indiana, Book 8, page 219.

2 1880 United States Census, Indiana, LaGrange County, LaGrange, Series: T9 Roll: 291 Page: 370.

3 1900 United States Census, Indiana, LaGrange County, LaGrange, Series: T623 Roll: 383 Page: 27.

4 1920 United States Census, Year: 1920; Census Place: McElroy, Pawnee, Oklahoma; Roll: T625_1482; Page: 19B; Enumeration District: 147; Image: 43.

5 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28459917.

6 1910 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MKP8-4M7 Homer M Nelson, 1910.

7 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20434519.



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