When Elizabeth Beryl Kountz was born on 12 November 1882, in PA, her father, George Washington Kountz, was 22 and her mother, Sarah Margaret Hixenbaugh, was 20. She was the sister of Ida May Kountz. She married Harry Binder on 24 March 1902, in Jefferson, Ohio. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Monaca, Beaver, PA in 1900. She died on 7 September 1961, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA., at the age of 78, and was buried in Jefferson Memorial Park, Pleasant Hills, Allegheny, PA.