Elizabeth was an educator. She went to Peabody College in Nashville where she graduated in June of 1898. She did graduate work at Baylor University and the University of Chicago. Her early teaching experiences were in Arizona but she returned back to Texas. Elizabeth's best friend and roommate at Peabody College was Emma Faucett of Alabama. Emma had a brother named Robert Faucett and that is how she met her future husband. In 1906, Robert went to Hillsboro, Texas, to claim his bride. He brought her back to Prattville where he was employed.

Elizabeth then obtained her master's degree from the University of Alabama. Her early work was organizing a group of women into a branch of National Congress of Mothers (later becoming the Congress of Parents and Teachers). Her work in Prattville with the Prattville School Improvements Association (later Prattville Parent Teacher Association) was so outstanding that she was elected to State President of the Alabama Parent Teacher Association for one year. After that, she was elected as Autauga County's Superintendent of Education where she served for ten years (1917-1927). Following that, she became a member of the Board of Education. Through the years, she was an advocate for a public library in Prattville and that dream became a reality on January 25, 1957, when Prattville's first public library opened.

Elizabeth had no children of her own but reared five of her nieces, two of which became teachers, Miss Elizabeth Steere and Miss Annie Caruthers.

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Texas Marriage Record:
Name: Elizabeth F Caruthers
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 28 Jun 1906
Marriage Place: Hill, Texas, USA
Spouse: Robert L Faucett or Fawcett

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Alabama Deaths and Burials Index:
Name: Elizabeth Caruthers Faucett
Birth Date: abt 1870
Death Date: 29 Dec 1957
Death Place: Prattville, Autauga, Alabama
Death Age: 87
Gender: Female
Father Name: Sam Caruthers
Mother Name: Lula Cox