Orne, Mrs. Benjamin (Marsh)

When she met her husband in Arkham, she was said to be the orphaned daughter of Enoch and Lydia (Meserve) Marsh of New Hampshire, a cousin of the respectable Essex County Marshes.  She had been educated in France.  She died at the birth of their only child, Eliza Orne, in 1867.  No proof was ever found that her claimed parents ever existed.  It is thought that she may be the daughter of Captain Obed Marsh and his second wife, Pth'thya-l'yi.

[The Shadow Over Innsmouth - H.P.L.]