Lucas John Beecher (1870 - 1954)

Born 30 Jul 1870 in Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, United States

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Died 25 Jan 1954 at age 83 in Pampa, Gray, Texas, United States

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Biography

Lucas was born in 1870. At the time of his father's death (1911), Lucas was a newspaper correspondent for the Toledo Blade.^[1] He married Edith Alton Ballard (1871-1951) on 11 Aug 1896 in Erie Co., Ohio^[2] and they had two daughters:^[3][4]

Helen Louise Beecher (1897–1989

Lucile Beecher (1902–1986)

Lucas and Edith were still in Toledo in 1930^[5] and 1940,^[6] but both of them died in the early 1950s in Pampa, Grey, Texas, Edith in 1951 and Lucas in 1954.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ The Sandusky Register Sandusky, Ohio. 19 Jan 1911, Thursday, page 1. Newspapers.com, accessed 25 Apr 2022. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100440175/
2. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZRL-T4W : 29 September 2021), Lucas J Beecher and Edith A Ballard, 1896.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMZ3-6XG : 13 January 2022), Lucas J Beecher, 1900.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLDF-MQC : accessed 25 April 2022), Lucas J Beecher, Toledo Ward 7, Lucas, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 88, sheet 6B, family 155, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1207; FHL microfilm 1,375,220.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X44X-76G : accessed 25 April 2022), Lucas J Busher, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 80, sheet 4B, line 91, family 77, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1836; FHL microfilm 2,341,570.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW8Y-GXY : 9 January 2021), Lucas J Beecher, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 95-143, sheet 62B, line 49, family 215, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3261.
7. ↑ "Texas Death Index, 1903-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZNJ-6BT : 24 May 2014), Lucas John Beecher, 25 Jan 1954; from "Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2006); citing certificate number 2026, Gray, Texas, Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, Austin.

Acknowledgments

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