Dr. Benedict Bucher Jr.
(1759-1830)
Susanna Mohler
(1764-1827)
Michael Henry Valentine
Magdalena Stiegel
(1775-)
Dr. Christian Bucher
(1796-1860)
Mary Valentine
(1803-1889)
Elizabeth E. Bucher
(1846-1885)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. John Lucas Rockey

Elizabeth E. Bucher 1 2 3 4 5 6

  • Born: 12 Feb 1846, Schaefferstown, Lebanon, PA 1 3 4 5 7
  • Christened: 5 Apr 1846, Schaefferstown: St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Lebanon, PA 4
  • Marriage (1): John Lucas Rockey
  • Died: 17 Nov 1885 at age 39 7 8
  • Buried: Schaefferstown: St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Lebanon, PA 7 8

   Another name for Elizabeth was Libbie E. Bucher.7 9

   FamilySearch ID: KHPC-N8G.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Schaefferstown, Lebanon, PA. 3 Christian Bucher, 54, physician, is living with wife Mary, 47; Samuel, physician, 23; Susan, 20; Isaac, laborer, 17; Mary, 16, and Elizabeth, 4. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Christian's house is valued at $3,000.

2. Census in 1860 in Schaefferstown, Lebanon, PA. 5 Christian Bucher, physician, 64, was living with wife Mary, 56; Alfred, merchant, 29; Isaac, physician, 28; Elizabeth, 14; and Ellen Valentine, 10. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Christian's real estate was worth $5850 and personal estate $300. Alfred's personal estate was 20,000. The post office was Myerstown.

3. Fact: Elizabeth likely met John Rockey while visiting her older brother Samuel who lived near the Rockeys in the 1870s in Illinois. John Rockey then moved to Pennsylvania., 1870, Buckeye Twp., Stephenson, IL.

4. Census in 1880 in Lebanon, Lebanon, PA. 9 The 1880 census recorded Mary Bucher, 76, living with her son-in-law, J. L. Rockey, 36, and her daughter Libbie E. Rockey, 34. The ladies and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. J. L. was born in Illinois and his parents in Pennsylvania.


Elizabeth married John Lucas Rockey, son of John Rockey and Catherine. (John Lucas Rockey was born on 28 Mar 1844 in Buckeye Twp., Stephenson, IL,10 11 died on 26 Jan 1924 in , Lebanon, PA 10 and was buried in Lebanon: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, PA 10.)

Sources

1 Gladys Bucher Sowers, The Bucher Family, 1681-1997 (1997. Gladys Bucher Sowers, 1410 Cornwall Road, Lebanon, PA 17042, 78 pp.), Tree Page 3.

2 Meginness, John F., Biographical Annals Of Lancaster County, Pa: Containing Biographical And Genealogical Sketches Of Prominent And Representative Citizens And Many Of The Early Settlers (J. H. BEERS and CO., 1903. Online at: https://books.google.com/books?id=HM4xAQAAMAAJ), Page 1023.

3 1850 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Lebanon County, Schaefferstown, Series: M432 Roll: 791 Page: 25.

4 St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Schaefferstown: , Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA.

5 1860 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Lebanon County, Schaefferstown, Series: M653 Roll: 1129 Page: 619.

6 Egle, William Henry, 1830-1901, History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : Geographical and Genealogical (Philadelphia : Everts & Peck, 1883
360 p., 63 p. of plates : ill., maps), Page 237.

7 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32271388.

8 Gladys Bucher Sowers, The Bucher Family, 1681-1997 (1997. Gladys Bucher Sowers, 1410 Cornwall Road, Lebanon, PA 17042, 78 pp.), Tree Page 6.

9 1880 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MWNS-P8C Libbie E. Rockey in entry for Mary Bucher, 1880.

10 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12629437.

11 1850 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M853-7TR John Rocky in entry for John Rocky, 1850.


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