My great grandmother Ada Cordelia Buchenau Blacker was born February 7, 1853 in St. Joseph, Missouri. Her parents were John Buchenau, born in Germany, and Catherine B. Tyler Buchenau, born in Pennsylvania.
At the age of 18, she married David Lyman Blacker in Wathena, Kansas on February 27, 1871. Shortly afterwards, she moved with her new husband to the Montana Territory.