Christine Elsie Margaret Hilbert ^{2 3 4}

   FamilySearch ID: KZ2S-83F.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1910 in Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ³ The 1910 census recorded renting a home at 306 E. Seventh Street: Lewis Helbert, miner, 40, with wife Edith, 33; Ruth E., 13; Grace, 9; Lewis, 8; John, 7; Elsie, 3; and Nellie, 5 months. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. Lewis and Edith were married for 15 years and she had birthed 6 children by 1910, all alive that year. Next door at 304 E. Seventh Street was Edith's sister, Sadie Blew, with her husband.

2. Census in 1920 in Visalia, Tulare, CA. ⁵ Hiram Beecher, age 76, widowed, is living in his daughter's household in the 1920 Census in Visalia Township, Tulare County, CA. The daughter, Edith, age 46, is married to Lewis Hilbert, 48. Living with them is son Lewis, 16; John S. 14; Elsia, 12; Nellie, 9; James, 8; Marg, 2 months. James and Marg were born in California, and everyone else in Pennsylvania.

3. Occupation: 1962 Napa City Directory: Ballinger Earl (Elsie) upholsterer Kline's Upholstery Shop (Vallejo) h1860 Main in 1962 in Vallejo, Solano, CA. ⁶

4. Occupation: 1965 Visalia City Directory: Ballinger Earl (Elsie M) Uphol Archuleta's Upholstery Shop H815 S Church St in 1965 in Visalia, Tulare, CA. ⁷

Christine married Thomas Jefferson Davis, son of William Jesse Davis and Ada Mary Beckham, in 1928 in Visalia, Tulare, CA.¹ (Thomas Jefferson Davis was born on 14 Jul 1906 in Douglas, Cochise, AZ ⁸ and died on 6 Aug 1955 in Indio, Riverside, CA ¹.)

Christine next married Earl Ballinger. (Earl Ballinger was born on 4 Feb 1909 in Hartford City, Blackford, IN,^{9 10} died on 6 Feb 1979 in , Tulare, CA ⁹ and was buried in Visalia: Visalia Cemetery, Tulare, CA ⁹.)