PHOTOGRABLOG: 06/01/2008

Sunday, June 29, 2008

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.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Kiokuk, Iowa where Charles Edward Lifer was born in 1907

Charles Lifer and Elizabeth Beth 1879

This is the wedding photo of Elizabeth Beth and Charles William Lifer. They were married on Dec 31st in 1879 outside of Hammond, Kansas. The minister came from Fort Scott, Kansas. On the marriage license he wrote that he vouched for her being over 18. She was born at Fort Scott in 1862. Her father Richard Beth died just before she was born. He died wile serving in the Civil War with a volunteer regiment out of Fort Scott. He had served as a US Army Dragoon since their inception in 1833. They had two children Carrie who was born about 1884 and lived for four years. They had a second daughter Pearlie Mae Lifer. Pearlie had a son in 1907. Charles Edward Lifer had two children Dorothy May Lifer and Charles Laverne Lifer with Mary Griffiths. He had a son William Robert Lifer with Edna ...She died in a car accident. He had another daughter Elizabeth Ann Lifer with Ceclia. I am Elizabeth Beth and Charles William Lifer's great grand daughter. They lived on a farm in the Hammond, Kansas Area.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Dad at Goff School

Dad drove Scott and I out to Uniontown for the Grand Tour of the cemetary, the Goff School and the Petersberg farm. This was when Sydney was on her mission in Colorado. There was also the River Farm where Alberta and Truman moved with Gene and Loretta in I think 1944. We didn't go there though. The Goff Schoo; has sinse been torn down or fell down. I have posted this one before but I wanted to post it again.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Missing Good Times with Tiffany and Robert

1987 on the Queen Mary with Tiffany and Robert Zitowski. Little reunion dinner with Cellomatic employees. Tiff was our party planner that night. She made reservations and communicated the details to all. Horsing around with Liberace on the deck. We sat in the Art Deco Bar after dinner. I know it was 1987 because my mom and I bought that dress to celebrate getting the job at Mc Donnell Douglas Monrovia. That was 21 years ago.