Susan M. Oliver (b. Phillips) (1832-1915) was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and died in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1854, she married George S. Oliver. He worked with leather, then was a Civil War veteran, serving for Massachusetts. After the war, he was a liquor dealer. Oliver was the daughter of Thomas and Hannah Phillips, who Mary Baker Eddy befriended in the fall of 1864, while living in Lynn, Massachusetts. That November she joined the family for Thanksgiving dinner, and this meal was the inspiration for Eddy's vignette, titled "Day After Thanksgiving," originally published in the Lynn Bay State in 1864 and later revised and republished in The Christian Science Journal and Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. In late 1886, Oliver and Eddy were once again reacquainted, with Oliver offering to sew for Eddy to repay a debt to her. Oliver joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston on June 23, 1903.

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