When Emelia Lugo Rubio was born on 30 May 1917, in Las Canoas, Tepeji del Río de Ocampo, Hidalgo, Mexico, her father, Jose Lugo, was 45 and her mother, Petra Advincula Rubio, was 37. She had at least 1 son and 4 daughters with Jovito Rubio Benítez. She died on 9 January 1998, in Mexico City, Mexico, at the age of 80.