Elizabeth G. Teed (maiden name: Wakeman) was born around March 1831 in New York to Jabez and Polly Wakeman. Her father was a farmer who owned $1,800 of real estate. She grew up in Walton, New York, and she married Hiram P. Teed in 1858. Their daughter Isa was born around 1876. They lived in Tompkins, New York, and her husband worked as a farmer. By 1860, they owned $300 of real estate and $200 of personal property. They moved to Towanda, Pennsylvania, in the 1870s, and then to Burton, Ohio, in the early 1900s. She died there on August 9, 1918.