Elizabeth Agnes Tracy ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   Another name for Elizabeth was Lizzie Tracy.

   FamilySearch ID: GQJG-2YZ.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1910 in Chicago, Cook, IL. ⁷ The 1910 census recorded at 1658 St. Louis Avenue: L. J. Beeker, commercial trucker for steel and iron, 43, living with wife L., 43; daughter Esther, bookkeeper for electric manufacturer, 21; and son Emmett, office boy at steel works, 16. The parents were married for 22 years. Esther and L.J. were born in Indiana and his parents in Pennsylvania. L. and her mother were born in Kansas and her father in Ireland. Emmett was born in Ohio.
[Note: why the parents are listed with initials and not names is a mystery since the census taker listed full names for all others on this street. Were they trying to hide their identity?].

2. Elizabeth appeared in the household of John Hull Joseph Beeker in a census in 1930 in Dearborn, Wayne, MI. ^{8 8} The 1930 census recorded owning a $10,000 home at 7022 Neckel Street: John J. Beeker, general foreman in automobile factory, 63, living with wife Agnes E., 62; their son Emmet R., 37, and his family: wife: Cornelia A., 29; John E., 9; Mary E., 7; and Richard E., 3. John was born in Indiana, Agnes in Kansas, Emmet and Cornelia in Ohio, John E. and Mary in Michigan, and Richard in Florida. John's parents were from Pennsylvania and Agnes' from Kansas. Cornelia's parents were from Indiana.

3. Census in 1940 in Dearborn, Wayne, MI. ⁹ The 1940 census recorded owning a $7000 home at 7022 Neckel Street: William Gibbons, foreman at auto plant, 54, born in Utah, living with wife Esther, 52, born in Indiana; daughter Elizabeth, typing and shorthand for construction company, 19, born in Michigan, and mother-in-law Elizabeth Beeker, 75, born in Kansas. They lived in the same place in 1935.

4. Obituary: Long Beach Press Telegram: obituary of Elizabeth Beeker on 26 Oct 1951 in Long Beach, Los Angeles, CA. ¹⁰ BEEKER \emdash Mrs. Elizabeth A. Beeker, 91, of 4827 Pepperwood Ave., Lakewood Village, died Oct. 24 at her home. She was a native of Atchison, Kan., and lived for a time in Indiana and Detroit, Mich., before coming to Lakewood in 1949. She was a member of St. Cyprian's parish. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Esther Gibbons of Lakewood; a son, Emmet Beeker of Indianapolis, Ind., two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The rosary will be recited tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Moteell's chapel. Requiem mass will be offered tomorrow at 9 a.m. in St. Cyprian's church. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Detroit.

Elizabeth married John Hull Joseph Beeker, son of William M. Beeker and Elizabeth Cena Zeigler, on 2 Nov 1886 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN.¹ (John Hull Joseph Beeker was born on 23 Jan 1867 in Otterbein, Benton, IN,^{2 11 12} died on 12 Oct 1938 in Dearborn, Wayne, MI ^{2 11} and was buried on 15 Oct 1938 in Southfield: Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Oakland, MI ².)