Lillian Beach (1886 - aft. 1940)

Born Jun 1886 in Wisconsin, United States

Ancestors

Died after 1940 after age 53 in Colorado, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Lillian Beach was the daughter of Joseph Parnell Beach and Ella Vilas (Platt) Beach. She was named in her father's obituary.^[1] After her father's death in February 1900, in the census of that year Lillian was shown boarding with her aunt Emely Halsted (a sister of her father) at Appleton, Wisconsin, with her birth date recorded as June 1886.^[2]

Her aunt had moved to Colorado by 1910, and Lillian was living with her and other family members there, with her age recorded as 25.^[3] In 1930 and 1940, Lillian was an inmate of the Colorado State Home and Training School for Mental Defectives,^[4][5] and the 1940 Census is the last record found of her.

Sources

1. ↑ Transcription of an obituary of Dr. Joseph P. Beach from the Algoma Record of 23 Feb 1900 on Find A Grave: Memorial #42421538
2. ↑ Emely Halsted household, #231, in United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch > Wisconsin > Outagamie > ED 65 Appleton city Ward 1, west side > image 21 of 31; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ Lillian Beech (sic) in the Emily Halstead family, #271, in United States Census, 1910 database with images, FamilySearch > Colorado > Fremont > South Canon Ward 2 > ED 77 > image 7 of 14; citing NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ Lillian Beach, 46, born in Wisconsin, in United States Census, 1930, database with images, FamilySearch > Colorado > Mesa > Fruitvale > ED 2 > image 7 of 8; citing NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002).
5. ↑ Lillian Beach, 56, born in Wisconsin, in United States Census, 1940, database with images, FamilySearch > Colorado > Mesa > Election Precinct 1 > 39-4 Election Precinct 1 Fruitvale, State Home and Training School for Mental Defectives > image 6 of 13; citing Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012.