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Have been searching for nearly 20 years for my great-grandfather, Horatio M. Sicher, with scarcely a clue. He married in 1870 at or near Weatherly, Carbon County, Pennsylvania Mary Cooper, daughter of James H. and Martha Dodson Cooper. Their eldest son James Edward (Edmund) Sicher(Uncle Eddy) was a bachelor and resided and supposedly died in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their second son, and last child, my grandfather, was born in Penobscot, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1873. Horatio and Mary were divorced in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1878. Horatio has not been located on any census from 1850 thru 1880 in Pennsylvania. We assume he was born about 1850 because his wife Mary was born in 1851. After their divorce, Mary went to live hear her mother and sisters in Fairmont Township, Luzerne County. Uncle Eddy is not with them and is presumed to be with his father. No death records on Uncle Eddy can be found in Salt Lake in the 1950's. The one tangible evidence that the man existed is that my grandfather lists his father on his military enlistment papers in 1891 has having been "Killed." So Horatio Sicher lived to be about 40 years of age, and probably a railroad man. We draw this conclusion because we have a wedding picture taken in Easton, a baby picture of Uncle Eddy taken in Catawissa, they were married in Weatherly (or at least Great-grandmother Mary lived there at the time they were married because she was listed on the 1870 census in that place one week before her marriage, and finally, grandpa Sicher was born in Penobscot. All of these town are on the Railroad line between Wilkes-Barre and Easton. Horatio's brother-in-law was also an engineer on the railroad from Weatherly and Penobscot is a maintenance yards for the railroad. Any help or suggestions concerning my two decade search for my great-grandfather would be greatly appreciated. I have a feeling that Horatio may have gone west on the railroad after his divorce and took Uncle Eddy with him.
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