When Matilda Catherine Beecher was born on 6 May 1853, in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William P. Beecher, was 26 and her mother, Mary A. Noble, was 28. She had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Charles Franklin Black. She lived in Penn Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. She died on 21 January 1929, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Huntsdale Church Of The Brethren Cemetery, Huntsdale, Penn Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States.
English (Kent): from Middle English becher, denoting one who lived by a beech-tree, from an agent derivative of Middle English beche ‘beech-tree’ (see Beach ), the -er suffix having a locative sense. This English name is also common in Ireland, particularly in Cork.
Americanized form of German Bücher (cognate with 1 above) (see Bucher ).
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