Esther W. (Hile) Caporale was born on Monday, September 11, 1899 in Folsom Borough, Buena Vista Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Marie (Kempker, Egolf) and  Frederick Martin Hile.

In the 1900 census, she and her parents were living on Folsom Road, Winslow Township, Camden County, New Jersey. By 1910, they had moved to Mays Landing Road in Winslow Township where they still lived at the time of the 1920 census. The 1930 report has her living at 501 Orchard Street, Hammonton, Atlantic County, NJ. In 1940, Esther was working as an operator in a clothing factory at a salary of $280 for 28 weeks.

On Saturday, January 10, 1920 she married John Batisto Caporale and they had one son, Ernest F. Caporale.

Esther died on August 28, 1980 at the age of 80. She is buried in the Zion's Evangelical & Reformed Cemetery in Folsom Borough. At the time of her death, she was living in Audubon in Camden County.

John, who was born on June 20, 1892, died in 1965 at the age of 73. He was also buried in Zion's Evangelical & Reformed Cemetery.

In the Rehmann Family many events since the mid-19th century have occurred at two churches located at 1341 Mays Landing Road in Folsom, New Jersey. (Some sources list the address being in Hammonton, NJ.) There can be some confusion since names of these churches are spelled in slightly different ways depending on the date or the document.

Starting in 1848, the original church was established as St Jacobus Lutheran Church to serve the local German immigrants. It was located on a 12 acre plot of land which included a cemetery.

In 1853, conflicts over theological issues caused a split in the congregation. The land was divided into two six acre sites and one was used to construct what is now St James Lutheran Church, originally St James Evangelical Church. Charles Rehmann (1826-1892) was on the St. James committee. A second facility called Zion Evangelical & Reformed Church was founded at that time. It is sometimes listed as Zion's or Zions.

About 1998 around the 150th anniversary of the original church, the two congregations reunited into St James Lutheran Church. The cemetery is often referred to by either name, St. James or Zion.