Aurel P. Beach (b. Paine) (1839-1927) was born in LeRoy Township, Ohio, and died in Orange, California. In 1863 in LeRoy, she married Amandus W. Beach, a Civil War veteran who served in Company H of the 2nd Nebraska Cavalry. He was a laborer who later became a farmer, a store clerk, and a capitalist. They lived in Weeping Water, Nebraska, where Beach's husband had been living since 1857. After her father's death in 1868, the couple moved back to LeRoy to live with her mother and younger siblings, but in 1874 they returned to Weeping Water. In 1910 they retired to Orange to live near family and friends located there. Beach and her husband became interested in Christian Science in the summer of 1886 when they both experienced healings of long-standing invalidism through Christian Science treatment by Jennie B. Fenn, a student of Mary Baker Eddy, an experience Beach later related in The Christian Science Sentinel. Subsequently they studied Christian Science with Fenn and were listed as practitioners in The Christian Science Journal in 1887 and 1888. They joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 30, 1894. Along with Frederick "Fred" Bellows they were instrumental in establishing Christian Science in Weeping Water.

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