Melissa Fay (b. Fish) (c.1843-c.1890) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in Los Angeles, California. In about 1862, she married Artemus E. Fay. He was a Civil War veteran, serving as a private in the 96th Volunteer Regiment in New York. After the war, he was an editor and a publisher. The couple moved from New York to Tombstone, Arizona, where he started the town's first newspaper, the Tombstone Weekly Nugget, in 1879, then became editor of the Tuscon Star. By 1886, the couple had moved to Los Angeles, California, and Artemus went into business with Melville M. Chase as the publishing company Chase & Fay which printed the circular for Masons, Voice of Masonry. In 1886, Fay wrote to Mary Baker Eddy from Los Angeles, to order a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

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