In 1900 Federal Census, she was living in Jay with her brother-in-law Josiah P. Hathaway and her sister Perlina. She gave her date of birth as Dec 1834, her age as 65; she was widowed and reported that she had no children. She and her parents were born in New York, and she could read and write. The census spelled her name “Phidina.”10

In the 1850 census, she is 14, spelled Fodina, and her place of birth is given as Ohio, while the other children’s places are NY.62