She was born in Illinois according to the 1910 Aledo Census and 1920 Galesburg Census and her Death Certificate. Elizabeth was born in Chicago, Illinois on 11 April 1903. No birth certificate has been found in Iowa or Chicago. She moved on 1 January 1904 with her parents and brother Alexander Dwight to Waterloo, Iowa, where her brother Leonard Wood was born on 28 April 1905. 1 July 1905 she moved with her family to Oelwein, Iowa where they lived until late March 1909. Her father commuted from Waterloo to Oelwein from 1 May to 1 July 1905. Her brother Arnold Beecher was born on 29 May 1907 in Oelwein. In late March 1909 she moved with her family to 602 S. College Avenue, Aledo, Illinois where they lived until 1 Sep 1919. Her sister Mary Isabel was born in Aledo on 2 Feb 1911. From 1 Sep 1919 to June 1921 they lived at 1092 North Broad Street, Galesburg, Illinois. In June 1921 she moved with her family to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where she lived until her father died in 1928. She did not go to Muskogee Central High School, so her education terminated in Aledo or Galesburg. She then lived with her widowed mother and her sister Mary and her brother Arnold for several years in Nevada, Missouri, and then 3 years at Camp in Dorset, Minnesota. She worked at the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Ah-Gwah-Ching, Walker, Minnesota. Her brother Leonard then got her a job at the Nopeming Tuberculosis Sanatorium near Duluth, Minnesota. She could not drive, so when someone could get her and take her home again, she would spent some time each summer in the sleeping cabin she inherited next door to her sister Mary’s house at Camp on Big Sand Lake, Dorset, Minnesota. She was always known as "Auntie Tommy” and she had a temper. She met her husband, Clarence Friedman, when they both worked at Nopeming Sanatorium. They lived in rural Proctor, Minnesota at 9778 Halli Road, 55810 from at least 1969 until her death in 1989. Her home was listed as Midway Township at the time of her death. She worked for many years at Nopeming Sanatorium and later when it became Nopeming Nursing Home. She later became a patient there, and subsequently died there. Elizabeth Friedman's [Aunt Tommy] ashes are scattered on the grave of her mother, Mary Beckwith Moody, in Park Rapids, Minnesota.

Has to be Chicago as A. E. did not leave Chicago until 1 Jan 1904. Straighten out where born. Cook County Illinois search says not born there on 11 April 1903. Iowa cannot find birth certificate. ? born Aledo. Check Galesburg High School for school records.

He met Elizabeth when they both worked at Nopeming. They built their house in rural Proctor, Minnesota, at 9778 Halli Road, in 1964.