Beulah Hobson, 7, is found in the 1920 Federal Census of Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois. She lived with her parents, Robert, 38, and Pearl, 33. She had a brother, Samuel, age 9. They also had a housekeeper. The father, full name, Robert Lucious Hobson, was a Commercial Traveler, Grocery Industry.

The parents divorced. Robert Lucious Hobson, born in 1888, lived until 1975. He married Clara Lee Goin Rhodes in 1930. Pearl Mae McKinney moved to Pittsburgh and married George J. Zierman, a resident of Pittsburgh, at Brooke County, West Virginia in April 1929.

In 1930, Beulah Hobson, 16, and her brother, Samuel T., 19, both born in Illinois, lived with stepfather, George J. Zierman, born in New York, and their mother, Pearl, born in Illinois. They resided on Beechwood Boulevard, Pittsburgh, and George was a traveling salesman.

Beulah N. Hobson graduated from Ursuline Academy in 1932.

In a list of Registered Nurses, 1940-1941, published by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nurse Examiners: "Beulah Navada Hobson, Leech Farm Sanitarium, Pittsburgh."

At the time of the 1940 census, Beulah Hobson, 27, Hospital Nurse, was a boarder at the Leech Farm Sanitarium, Pittsburgh.

On July 1, 1940, in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia, Beulah Hobson, 27, born in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, a resident of Leech Farm Nurses' Home, Pittsburgh, married Charles Vincent Neeson, Jr., 30, a mechanic, born in Pittsburgh, and a resident of that city. Her parents are stated as Robert Hobson and Pearl McKinney. His parents were Charles V. Neeson and Annie Gertrude Easterly. Neither had been previously married.

Step-father, George J. Zierman, died in Brooklyn, New York on July 29, 1945.

When Charles Vincent Neeson, Jr., 63, died in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio on October 26, 1972, he was not married to Beulah Hobson. His obituary states that he had lived in Elyria for 31 years, indicating he had moved there about 1941. A graduate of Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, he had worked at Bendix-Westinghouse Automotive Air Brake Co. in Elyria. He ran for public office and served as a councilman from 1956 through 1959, Elyria mayor in 1962 and 1963, and deputy county treasurer in 1964. At the time of his death he was the Lorain County Clerk of Courts. His wife, Natalie B. Neeson, whom he married in 1970, served as County Clerk after his death. In 1983, Natalie plead guilty to one count of complicity to grand theft.

According to the marriage record of Charles Neeson and Natalie, Charles had been married twice before. A divorce record (1970) indicates that he was married to a woman named Dorothy for 22 years. Presumably, Beulah Hobson was his first wife.

Mrs. Beulah N. Neeson, Elyria, Ohio is listed in the 1943, 1945 City Directory. She was employed as a bookkeeper at McQuistion Coal Company.

Nothing more has been found about her.