[1][3] Bechly died in 1892 and is buried in Wildwood Cemetery in Sheboygan, Wisconsin with his wife and four of his children.
[5] Bechly traveled by boat to Albany, and then by rail to Buffalo where he learned that there was a sizable German settlement near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
[5][2] Bechly purchased ten acres of land at a crossroads in Mosel, Wisconsin, within Sheboygan County.
[5][6] He used his remaining funds to purchase sawmill lumber to build a temporary house and a blacksmith shop which became known as Bechly Corners.
[3][5] The first house was little more than a board shanty that used four equidistant trees that served as columns to which he used the sawmill lumber to build crude walls and a roof.