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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [368]

           CHRISTIAN BOTCHER, deceased, formerly residing on section 13,
        Sand Beach Township, was a son of JOHN and MARY BOTCHER, natives of
        Germany, in which country they resided until their death. ChRISTIAN
        was born in the native country of his parents, and resided there,
        engaged in the occupation of farming and coachman, until the summer
        of 1868. At the date mentioned, he crossed the ocean and landed on
        American soil. He came direct to this county and settled in Sand
        Beach Township. Two years later, in 1870, he purchased 83 acres of
        wild land on section 13, same township, and entered on the labor-
        ious task of clearing and improving the same. He erected a fine
        frame house, good barn and other buildings, and was just entering
        on the enjoyment of the fruits of his labor when, in 1871, the
        destroying element, fire, laid his barn, together with its entire
        contents, in ashes. During that fire, so well remembered by every
        inhabitant of Huron County, MR. BOTCHER injured his eyes, fighting
        the element, from which injury he never recovered, his death occur-
        ring December 3, 1873.
           MR. BOTCHER was united in marriage, in Germany, in January,
        1850, to MISS MARY PUIS. She was a daughter of CHRISTOPHER and
        SOPHIA (STEVENSON) PUIS, natives of Germany, in which country the
        daughter was also born, July 15, 1831.  Her parents had a family of
        ten children, most of whom died in infancy.  MRS. B. is a member of
        the Lutheran Church, as likewise was her husband.

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