At time of 1920 census, Esther was married and had two children. She,
her husband and two daughters were living with her father.
Obituary from "The Gastonia Gazette," Wednesday, January 3, 1951:
MRS. ESTHER BOST
BELMONT - Mrs. Esther Joy Bost, 58, wife of Horace F. Bost, died Tuesday
at 10 A.M. at her home in Catawba Heights. She was born Feb. 26, 1892,
in Gaston county.
Surviving are her husband, one son., Pvt. Franklin Bost, Scott Air
Force Base, Ill., and four daughters, Mrs. M. M. Queen, Claremont, Mrs.
Sam Williams of West Cramerton, and Mrs. Perry Summey and Mrs. W. M.
Hawes of Catawba Heights, and seven grandchildren.
Mrs. Bost was the daughter of the late Sidney and Emma Abernathy Joy.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete but are tentatively scheduled at
Ebenezer Methodist Church Thursday, the hour depending upon the arrival
of Pvt. Bost from Scott Air Force Base.