Lucy W. Stacy (maiden name: Adams) was born on January 23, 1817, in Harvard, Massachusetts, to Jonathan and Alice Adams. She married Nathaniel Stacy on April 5, 1841, and they had at least two children: Edward, born on April 9, 1842; and Mary, born on January 16, 1844. They lived in Harvard, and her husband worked as a paper maker. By 1860, he owned $100 of personal property. Her husband died of consumption on November 25, 1868. By 1870, she was living with her older sister Roxanna in Worcester, Massachusetts. She died of heart disease on August 23, 1883, in Holland, Massachusetts.