Bixler, Joseph Bucher
(1863-1965)




Birth: February 1, 1863, Wakarusa, Elkhart County, IN
Death: October 21, 1965, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Parents: Joseph C. Bixler, Charlotte Bucher
Spouse: Eva Heeter, married October 5, 1892, Wabash County
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Known Children: Ruth Estelle (1894-1979), Mary Helen (1901-1993), Paul Abner (1903-1905), Abner Lawrence (1908-1925)
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Individual Number: 5276


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1921 Unknown Marion, Grant County, IN























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Parents: Joseph C. Bixler, Charlotte Bucher
Children: Ruth Estelle (1894-1979), Mary Helen (1901-1993), Paul Abner (1903-1905), Abner Lawrence (1908-1925)
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OriginalNotes: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/67173195/person/172090626853/facts - Includes photo of him

U. S., Special Census on Deaf Family Marriages and Hearing Relatives, 1888-1895, accessed https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/764:1582?tid=67173195&pid=172090626853&queryId=a612f2ad6335341ee40bf521cda899eb&_phsrc=GFR986&_phstart=successSource
-Both Bixler and his wife Eva were deaf according to this document. At the time the census was done, only their daughter Ruth had been born. 

"Bixler-Heeter," The Indianapolis Journal, 7 Oct 1892, p. 3, accessed newspapers.com.
"Special to the Indianapolis Journal. North Manchester, Ind., Oct. 6 - A novel wedding ceremony took place last evening in the parlors of Mr. and Mrs. Abner Heeter here. Mr. Joseph Bixler and Miss Eva Heeter, both mutes, were united in marriage by Rev. D. A. Kuhn, his words being interpreted in the sign language as fast as spoken by Miss Mary Corwin, of Indianapolis. The groom is an expert engraver, of Elkhart, and the bridge the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Heeter, of this city."
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County: Grant
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KnownDates: 1921
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OriginalSource: 1921 Polk's Marion City Directory, p. 124
Joseph Bixler (Eva), photog, res 416 W 6th
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