Hewitt married BEHM, Mabel C in Jan 1928. Mabel (daughter of BEHM, Johannes Louis August and PROCTOR, Clara) was born on 8 Mar 1908 in New York; died on 3 Sep 1996 in Gerry, Chautauqua County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 12/22/1927

Sir. and Mrs. John Behm of' the
Purdy road announce the engagement
of their daughter Mabel C. of
Niagara Falls to Hewitt Allen, also
of Niagara Falls, the wedding to
take place in January

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 5/3/1951

ALLEN-In Niagara Tails. Wednesday.
May 2. 1951. Emory T. Allen of 3336
Lock port street age 76. Husband of
Anna. Father of Hewitt Allen. Also
survived by two grandchildren. All
of this city. Funeral Saturday, May
5 at 2:30 p. m.. from the Gridley
Funeral Home, 750 Main street Rev.
David Callen officiating. Interment
in North Ridge cemetery.

Emory married Anna about 1902. Anna was born about 1877 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 6/11/1934

John L. Behm entered into rest
on Saturday, June 9th, at the family
residence, Purdy road, town of Lockport.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Clara Proctor Behm, four
daughters and three sons, Mrs. Edward
Wendt, Janesville, Minn., Mrs.
Bruce Moore, Lockport, Mrs. Hewett
Allen, Niagara Falls, N. Y., Mrs.
Mason Wilson, Lockport, Charles
Behm, Lockport, Arthur Behm, town
of Lockport and Irving Behm, town
of Wilson, four sisters and four
brothers, Mrs. Philip Breitenbach,
Mrs. Martin Wendlinger, Mrs. Frank
Martin, Mrs. Amiel Bush, George
Behm, William Behm, Charles
Behm and Frank Behm. Remains
reposing at the Conover & Reynolds
Funeral Home, 46 East avenue. Time
of funeral to be announced later.

Same date and paper

John L. Behm, 59, farmer, of
the Purdy road, town of Lockport,
took his life by hanging late Saturday
night after believing he had
succeeded in throttling his wife,
Clara, to death.
Mrs. Behm lay unconscious for
nearly 46 minutes before she regained
her senses and discovered
that her husband had hanged himself,
suspending his body by a cord
which he had attached to the bedpost
of his bed. His head was
Only 18 inches from the floor.
There had been no quarrel before
the tragedy, Mrs. Behm told
Dr. Ferdinand A. Kittinger, coroner.
She and her husband had spent the
evening together In their home, she
said. Her husband was in exceptionally
good spirits, she declared,
although he had brooded considerably
in recent weeks over his failure
to find employment. He had
been out of work for several
months she said.
After an evening of amiable conversation,
she and her husband decided
Just before midnight to retire.
Accordingly, she went to her bedroom
on the second floor, while he
retired to a room which he occupied
on the first floor.
"We've Got to Die."
Shortly afterwards, Mrs.
said, she beard her husband calling
for her.
As she entered his bedroom, she
told Dr. Kittinger, her husband
leaped at her and seised her by the
throat, at the same time crying:
"We've got to die, Clara."
He repeated the cry over and over
again as she vainly struggled to
free herself from his grasp, she said.
Then she lapsed into unconscious-
ness.
Regaining her senses about 45
minutes later, her first thought was
that her experience had been just
a terrible nightmare, Mrs. Behm related.
The severe throbbing In her
throat and the sight of her husband's
body, hanging from the bedpost
in his bedroom, awakened her
to the reality of her experience, ahe
said.
Touching her husband's body and
discovering it to be already cold,
Mrs. Behm ran in terror to the
home of a neighbor, where she
telephoned the sheriff's office.
Coroner Issues Certificate.
Deputies Oeorge Rawlings and
James Duffy hurried to the scene
of the tragedy. They summoned
the coroner, who ordered the' body
removed to the undertaking parlors
of Conover and Reynolds, 46 East
avenue.
Dr. Kittinger, after examining the
body and hearing Mrs. Behm's story,
issued a verdict of suicide by hanging.
Surviving Mr. Behm are his
widow, Clara; four daughters, Mrs.
Edward Wendt of Janesville, Minn.;
Mrs. Hewitt Allen of Niagara fails,
Mrs. Bruce Moore and Mrs. George
Wilson of Lockport; three sons,
Irving Behm of Ransomville, and
Charles and Arthur Behm of Lockport;
four sisters; Mrs. Martin
Wendllnger of Buffalo, Mrs. Henry
Martin of Tonawanda, Mrs, Emil
Busch of Lockport and Mrs. Philip
Breintback of Pickard's Bridge, and
four brothers, Charles Behm of Atwater,
Minn., Frank Behm of
Bralnard, Minn., William and
George Behm of Hudson, Wis.

Johannes married PROCTOR, Clara about 1903. Clara was born on 17 Sep 1883 in England; died on 3 Sep 1956 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 9/4/1956

A Lockport resident for several
years, Mrs. Clara Behm. 72. died
Monday (Sept. 1956) in St
Marys Hospital, Niagara Falls,
after a long Illness.
She was born Sept. 17, 1883 in
England, migrating to Lockport
and later to Niagara Falls, where
she had lived for the past 20
years. Her husband, John Behm,
died about 22 years ago.
Mrs. Behm was active in the
Women's Missionary Society of the
Free Methodist Church in Lockport
and Niagara Falls.
Surviving are four daughters.
Mrs. Lydia Moore and Mrs.
George M. Wilson, both of Lock-
port; Mrs. Mabel Allen, Niagara
Falls, and Mrs. Elma Wendt, Minnesota;
three sons. Irving. Charles
and Arthur Behm, at of Lockport;
one sister, Mrs. Kathryn
Snyder, Ogdensburg; and brother,
Percy Howe. Hamburg; also 18
grandchildren. and 17 great grandchildren.
Services will be tomorrow afternoon
at 2 o'clock in the Gridley
Funeral Home. Niagara Falls,
with the Rev. Arthur Taylor offi-
ciating. Burial will be in Memorial
Park Cemetery,

Notes:

North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 4/29/1931

Ferdinand Behm, 81 years vold.
died last night at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Philip Breitenbach.
Pickard's Bridge. He was born In
Germany and had resided in the
town of Wheatfield and other parts
of Niagara county for the past two
years. Surviving are five sons,
John L., Lockkport, William and
George, Hudson. Wis., Charles,
Atwater, Minn., and Frank, Brain-
ard, Minn.; four daughters, Mrs.
Martin Wendlinger, Buffalo, Mrs.
Breitenbach. Mrs. Emil Bush and
Mrs. Henry Martin, North Tona-
wantan; 49 grandchildren, and 18;
great grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Breitenbach
residence and at 2:451
o'clock, standard time, at the St.
Mark's church on Washington
street. Rev. Paul Fretthold will
officiate and interment will be in
St. John's cemetery, St. Johnsburg.

Ferdinand + BEHM, Caroline Ernestine. Caroline (daughter of BEHM, Christian and WERTH, Christine Dorothea) was born on 15 Mar 1848 in Rothenklempenow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 13 Nov 1905 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 11/13/1905

BEHM-Mrs. Caroline Behm, wife
of Ferdinand Behm of No. 245 Stensel
street died early this morning after an
illness of several years. The funeral
will take place Wednesday afternoon
at 1 o'clock from the house and a half
hour later from St. Marcus' Lutheran
Church in Washington street Rev.
Strohmann officiating. Burial at St
Johnsbuig.