John Fisher
(1776-1854)
Susanna Adams
George Weiser
(1785-1857)
Elizabeth Bucher
(1787-1871)
Rev. Richard Adams Fisher
(1805-1857)
Amelia Catherine Weiser
(1813-1915)
Amelia Susan Fisher
(1836-1923)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Edward Masser Bucher

Amelia Susan Fisher 1 2 3 4 5

  • Born: 22 Dec 1836, Sunbury, Northumberland, PA 1 2 5
  • Marriage (1): Edward Masser Bucher in 1882 1 2
  • Died: 13 Mar 1923, Sunbury, Northumberland, PA at age 86 1 2
  • Buried: Sunbury: Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Northumberland, PA 2

   FamilySearch ID: KDM5-M32.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. She has conflicting birth information of Dec 1837 and Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. 4 The 1900 Census lists her birth year as 1837.

2. Census in 1900 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. 4 Renting a house at 109 Fourth Street in 1900 was Henry J. Bucher, laborer in a planing mill, 38, born Dec 1861. He was married for 21 years to wife Mary C., 39, born Mar 1861, who had 2 children both living in 1900. In their home was daughter Annie M., 21, born Oct 1878, single, and granddaughter Mary C., 7, May 1893. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania, except Mary C. She was born in Mississippi, although her parents were Pennsylvanians.

Relatives are living next door at the next Census listing, 353 Chestnut Street, where the home is owned by Amelia Fisher, 86, born Sept 1813, widow [nee Weiser who had married Richard Adams Fisher who died in 1857], who had given birth to 3 children, all living in 1900. She is with her widowed daughter Amelia S. Bucher [nee Fisher who married Edward Masser Bucher who died in 1895]. Amelia S. had birthed one child, who we presume is the granddaughter Mary. C. living with Henry J. Bucher above. Also in the home was the younger Amelia's sister and brother: Louise C. Fisher, 60, born Oct 1839, and Richard A. Fisher, 58, born May 1842. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.


Amelia married Edward Masser Bucher, son of Francis R. Bucher and Mary Ann Masser, in 1882.1 2 (Edward Masser Bucher was born in 1840 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA,6 7 8 9 died on 6 Mar 1895 1 3 and was buried in Sunbury: Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Northumberland, PA.)


Sources


1 Gearhart, Heber G., Heber G. Gearhart Collection (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.), Bucher families of Pennsylvania and Maryland, call slip FC BU.

2 The Daily Item (Sunbury, PA), March 13, 1923 Edition.

3 Floyd, J.L., Genealogical & Biographical Annals of Northumberland County (1911 online at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/northumberp/floyd.html), Page 734.

4 1900 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Northumberland County, Sunbury Ward 4, Series: T623 Roll: 1450 Page: 186.

5 The Weiser Family : A Genealogy of the Family of John Conrad Weiser, the elder (d. 1746) : prepared on the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of his arrival in America, 1710-1760 (Manheim, Pa.: John Conrad Weiser Family Association, 1960, 905 pgs.), Page 793.

6 1870 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Northumberland County, Sunbury Boro West Ward, M593 Roll: 1385 Page: 498.

7 1880 United States Census, FHL Film 1255164; National Archives Film T9-1164; Page 527A.

8 1850 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Northumberland County, Sunbury Boro, Series: M432 Roll: 804 Page: 211.

9 1860 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Northumberland County, Sunbury Boro, Series: M653 Roll: 1149 Page: 616.



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