@article{GENERAL,
      recid = {678},
      author = {C.H. Bettiker, Photographer},
      title = {William R. Bettiker},
      number = {GENERAL},
      note = {This photograph of William Bettiker was taken by his  brother, the "traveling artist" Charles H. Bettiker  (1873-1895) .  Charles and his brothers were the sons of  Henry (of Prussia) and Bissina (nee Doud), and they lived  in Mecca, Ohio.  Charles became part of Frazier & Bettiker  Photographers of Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, and died of  typhoid fever in 1935 in Kentucky where he had been  operating a studio.  He is buried in East Mecca  Cemetery.

The 1880 census finds William living in Mecca  with his parents and siblings, Godfrey, Charles, Clinton  and Frederic.  William died in 1937 and is buried in Crown  Hill Burial Park, Vienna beside his wife Bessie Joyce, whom  he married in 1898.

Gift of the Traverse Area Historical  Society of Traverse City, Michigan.},
      url = {http://trumbullmemory.org/record/678},
}