Meredosia - Services for Elizabeth Boston, who died in Jacksonville Tuesday morning, will be conducted in Minonk at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church with burial to be made in Minonk.

Friends may call at the Schaefer Funeral Home here from 7-9 this evening.

Surviving are the two children, Mrs. Virgil Beauchamp and Mrs. Edward Rausch; and one sister, Mrs. Lena Holscher, all of Meredosia.

Further details will be announced later.

Jacksonville Daily Journal (Jacksonville, Illinois) 03 Oct 1956, Wed.
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St. Petri Lutheran Church Records 1868 thru 1999 (near Flanagan) show her name as Elizabeth Catharina Rapp, daughter of Jacob Rapp and Maria (Twiehaus) Rapp, born July 9, 1872. She was baptized on October 6, 1872, and her sponsor was Johanna Locker. *Note: Catharina was Jacob's first wife's name.

1880 United States Federal Census
Home in 1880: Minonk, Woodford, Illinois
Father's name: Jacob Rapp; b. Prussia
Mother's name: Catharine Rapp - ERROR; b. Baden - ERROR
Household Members:
Jacob Rapp 60
Catharine Rapp 37 - ERROR
John Rapp 23
Edward Rapp 17
Anna Rapp 16 [Should be Emma, not Anna]
George Rapp 15
Elizabeth Rapp 7
Lena Rapp 1
*Note: Her mother listed here as Catharina, is NOT CORRECT. Catharina was Jacob Rapp's first wife and the mother of seven children, including John, Edward, George and Emma above. Elizabeth's and Lena's mother was Jacob's second wife, Maria (Twiehaus) Rapp. I do not know why the 1880 census incorrectly lists Catharina as she died in 1871.

1900 United States Federal Census
Home in 1900: Minonk, Woodford, Illinois
Marital Status: Married to John Boston in 1892 (Married 8 yrs)
Father's Birthplace: Germany; Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Mother: number of living children: 1; How many children: 1
Household Members:
John Boston 33 [Dec 1966] farmer and Lizzie Boston 25 [July 1877]
Lena Boston 5 [Aug 1894]
Louis Rapp 18 (nephew)[Jan 1882] farm laborer

1910 United States Federal Census
Home in 1910: Minonk, Woodford, Illinois
Neighbors: Living nearby were Conrad, Lena, William and Mary Bonk (Lena was Elizabeth's sister.)
Household Members:
John Boston 44 (farmer) and Lizzie Boston 38
Lena Boston 16
Ester Boston 0 [2/12]

1920 United States Federal Census
Home in 1920: Minonk, Woodford, Illinois
Marital Status: Widowed
Home Owned: Own
Able to Read: Yes; Able to Write: Yes
Household Members:
Elizabeth K Boston 45
Lena M Brandt 25
Theodore Brandt 32 (laborer)
Esther A Boston 10

1930 United States Federal Census
Home in 1930: Minonk, Woodford, Illinois
Home value: $8000 (owned)
Neighbors: Theodore and Lena Brandt (dau)
Household Members:
Elizabeth Boston 57
Esther Boston 20 (stenographer at lawyer's office)

1940 United States Federal Census
Relation to Head of House: Mother-in-law
Home in 1940: Meredosia, Morgan, Illinois
Residence in 1935: Minonk, Woodford, Illinois
Highest Grade Completed: 6th grade
Household Members:
Vergil G Beauchamp 39 and Eather A Beauchamp 30 [Esther]
Elizabeth P Baston 67