Mom and Dad in Duarte

Richard and Caroline Beth decendents 1997

Caroline Foster Beth , Elizabeth Beth and Pearlie

Three generations. Caroline Foster was both in Birmingham, England in 1822. Her father Nathaniel Foster's family produced bricks and moved along as projects were finished. They imagrated to Philedelphia, PA by 1837 where she married Richard Beth when she was about 16. He was born in Scotland. He joined the US Army in 1822. She moved with him to Kansas by 1855 after he recieved Pension land near Stotsbury, Missouri for wounds recieved during the Mexican-American war (a bite on the hand") being discharged in Taos / Dona Anna Mexico, near current Sante Fe NM in 1850. They moved accross the border into the Fort Scott Kansas area during the "Bleediing Kansas" era where Slavery divided the country into Free State and Slave State supporters. They had several children. Her last child was born in 1862. Elizabeth Beth (pictuted on the left) married Charles Wiliam Lifer. Her father had died in 1862 and her brother William was a father figure to her. He as about 20 years older. He had been born in Fort Leavenworth when Richard was in the US Army serving in the Dragoons. Others wer born at Fort Gibson, Okalhoma when it was still Indian Territory. Pearlie Mae (right) was born in 1887 in Kansas to William Lifer and Elizabeth Beth. Her sister Carrie died when she was four years old. Pealie Mae is the mother of Charles Edward Lifer who was my mothers father. This portrait was taken in Fort Scott, KS in 1895 in a studio on Main and Wall streets. It was found in some furniture that was sold to a dealer who called my Uncle Charles Laverne Lifer and asked are you related to Elizabeth Lifer. The photo was indentified on the back. Caroline Foster Beth Clarke, Elizabeth Lifer and Pearlie Mae Lifer. I copied the original and returned it to my Uncle where it was distroyed in a house fire in Bronson Kansas in the 1990's. I love it when people write on the back of a photograph. Thanks for reading this I know it's long and it is just the tip of the iceberg. in 1997 there was a reunion of their decendents in Fort Scott.