Lucina Tiffany, born 22 Nov. 1855, in the Mercer, Pa. area married Charles Miller Fobes in Wayne, OH., on 25 Dec. 1875.¹ She is the mother of all of the children of Charles Miller Fobes, and my great great grandmother. Her children were Emma, Lumen, Myrtle Gordon, Fredrick Andrew and Asher. Another child died a few months before Lucina. The Ashtabula County Death Records, Volume 2, page 66 list a "Fobes babe", male, who died in May, 1892 at the age of one day. The death took place in Wayne, Ohio. The father's name is C.M. Fobes, and the mother is Lucina Fobes. (The handwriting looks more like an S than an L, but there is another place on the same page where a cause of death is given as Lock Jaw, and the formation of that L matches the one used in Lucina's name.) No cause of death is given.

On the same page one line below the Fobes babe is the listing for Lucina's death on 25 July 1892. It lists her age as 37, the place of death as Wayne and the cause of death as consumption. The newspaper account reads as follows:

Aug. 1. - Died in Wayne, July 25, of consumption, after a long and painful illness, Lucina, wife of Charles M. Fobes, aged 36. The funeral was attended at their residence on Wednesday. She leaves a husband and five children, the oldest only fifteen years old to mourn her loss. It was said of her that she never in her long sickness forgot to say "please" or "thank you" for any little attention.²