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Mary Elizabeth (Rupert) Tobin (b. 1854 - d. 1907) was born May 27, 1854 in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Mary Elizabeth is shown on the left. She was the daughter of Andrew J. (b. 1855 - July 3, 1913) and Elizabeth M. Rupert (b. November 2, 1832 - d. April 3, 1905), both of whom were born in Maine. She moved to Michigan as a teenager with her parents and there married James A. Tobin in 1874. They came to Prescott in 1879. One daughter died in San Francisco, January 24, 1880. Another daughter was alive at the time of Mary’s death and her sister, Flora E. (Rupert) Sutherland Page, was living in San Francisco at that time. Mary's husband was the superintendent for the George W. Curtis sawmill. Mary Elizabeth died November 13, 1907 in Prescott.

Mary Elizabeth's sister Flora E. (Rupert) Sutherland Page (b. 1856 - d. 1918) was born in Dreslin, Maine in June 1856. In the 1880 census, Flora is shown as married to LaFayette Sutherland and living in Prescott, Arizona. At that time, they had a two-year old son, Donald “Don” Alfred Sutherland, who was born in California, and a second son, Charles G. Sutherland, less than a year old born in Arizona. In the 1890 census, Flora is shown as living in San Francisco, California and married to Charles W. Page, who was born in England. The 1890 census shows that she had three living children (two other children were deceased). In the 1910 census, she is shown as still living in San Francisco. Flora died October 6, 1918. Flora's son Don had three children: Romona (or Ramona) Hjo Sutherland, Don Warland Sutherland and James Tobin Sutherland. He was married to Mamie (Johnson) Sutherland and later to Pauline Sutherland. Mary Elizabeth and Flora also had a brother, Evander "Van" A. Rupert (b. 1862 - d. 1933). He was born in April 1862 in Massachusetts. Evander established a stage line between Prescott and Copper Basin. He was first married to Addie Grazer, whom he divorced in 1902. At the time of his death, he was married to Minerva (or Manerva) Jane (Bernard) Dabney Huddleston Breese. Evander died October 30, 1933 in Prescott, Arizona.