John Conrad Bucher Jr.
(1775-1852)
Hannah Mytinger
(1780-1863)
Honorable John Scott
(1784-1850)
Agnes Irvine
(1799-1877)
George Conrad Bucher
(1821-1868)
Susan Scott
(1822-1887)
George Scott Bucher
(1859-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Rose Douglass

George Scott Bucher 1 2 3 4

  • Born: 13 Feb 1859, Alexandria, Huntingdon, PA 1 2 3 4
  • Marriage (1): Rose Douglass on 26 Aug 1884 1

   FamilySearch ID: K4P5-NZC.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1860 in Alexandria, Huntingdon, PA. 2 Hannah Bucher, age 80, is living with daughter Eliza, 54. Hannah's estate is valued at $15,000 for possessions with no real estate, and Eliza's at $4000 for possessions plus $8000 in real estate. Also living with them is Caroline Hatfield, 46; Charles Hatfield, 18, student; and Susan Isenburg, 23, domestic.

Next door is presumed to be Hannah's son, George C. Bucher, age 38, merchant. His estate is valued at $6,400 in real estate and $3,500 in possessions. With him is wife Susan, 37; John, 13; Hannah, 10; Amie, 8; Eliza, 6; Mary, 4; and George, 1.

2. Census in 1870 in Alexandria, Huntingdon, PA. 3 Susan Bucher, age 48, is living as a widow with real estate valued at $6,000 and possessions worth $5760. Each child in the home has possessions worth $200, perhaps an inheritance from their recently deceased father: Hannah M., age 30; Annie, 18; Eliza, 16; Mary, 13; George S., 11; Susan, 7; Caroline, 4; and Already, 3. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office was Huntingdon.

3. Census in 1880 in Grand Rapids, Kent, MI. 4 George S. Bucher, machinist, 21, single, was living in a boarding home of Susan Powers, 49. He and his parents were born in Pennsylvania.

4. Residence: in 1896 in Grand Rapids, Kent, MI. 1

5. Census in 1900 in Grand Rapids, Kent, MI. 5 George Bucher, age 41, born Feb 1859, was married for 15 years, but his wife is not listed in the household. George is living with three step children: Nellie, dressmaker, born Sept 1875; William, born Oct 1877; and Bertha A. born Nov 1879. George and his parents were born in Pennsylvania. The step children were born in Michigan, and their father and mother in the Netherlands.

6. Census in 1920 in Grand Rapids, Kent, MI. 6 Living at 811 Lafayette Avenue in Grand Rapids is George Bucher, age 60, with wife Rose Bucher, age 59, and daughter Helen, 28, born in Michigan. Also in the household is Virginia Douglas, 83, widowed mother-in-law, whose father was born in Connecticut. Everyone else's parents were born in Pennsylvania, as was George and Rose.


George married Rose Douglass, daughter of Unknown and Virginia Douglass, on 26 Aug 1884.1 (Rose Douglass was born about 1861 in Altoona, Blair, PA 1.)


Sources


1 Egle, William Henry, Pennsylvania Genealogies, Mainly Scotch Irish And German (1896, 798 pp.
Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969. Online via Google Book Search.), Page 136.

2 1860 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Huntingdon County, Alexandria Boro, Series: M653 Roll: 1115 Page: 2.

3 1870 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Huntingdon County, Alexandria Township, Series: M593 Roll: 1349 Page: 744.

4 1880 United States Census, Michigan, Kent County, Grand Rapids, Roll: T9_588, Family History Film: 1254588, Page: 314.

5 1900 United States Census, Michigan, Kent County, Grand Rapids Ward 11, Series: T623 Roll: 723 Page: 269.

6 1920 United States Census, Michigan, Kent County, Grand Rapids Ward 3, Series: T625 Roll: 779 Page: 3.



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