Beulah Irene Snyder was born on November 7, 1896 to Oscar Augustus Snyder and Mary Belle Gilbreath. She was 13 years old when her father died. One June 10, 195, she married Clifford Earnest Cossey in Diamond, Jasper, Missouri. For many years she lived in the area of Carterville and Duneweg before settling in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky sometime before 1925. Clifford and Beulah had two sons: Charles R. and Ray Nix. Her husband died on March 25, 1944. She died on October 6, 1974 in Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky.