Eliza Ann Stearns (maiden name: Herbert) was born on April 21, 1806, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to John and Mary Herbert. She married Thomas Webster on April 8, 1830, and their son William was born around 1833. Her husband probably died in the 1830s, and she married Levi Stearns on October 28, 1837. They had at least three children: Ellen, born around 1840; George, born around 1842; and Justice, born around 1847. They lived in Hingham, Massachusetts, and her husband worked as a trader. By 1850, they owned $900 of real estate. They moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, in the 1850s, and by 1860, they owned $1,500 of personal property. She died sometime after 1862.