In appreciation, King Edward VII once presented Titus a gold bar pin with the opening notes of "Sally in Our Alley" etched in diamonds.

Her parents married not long after Griffiths, then seventeen or eighteen, joined the Rowe Circus, an American tent show then performing in Australia.

In the mid-1860s her father, mother and baby sister Jennie settled in San Francisco after a circus tour that had encompassed Japan, China, Java and the Philippines.

Jennie's career was cut short while in her mid-forties, a fatality of tuberculosis, while Emily, a long-time character actress with Edward Harrigan's vaudeville company, fell victim to a lingering lung ailment at the age of 32.

[5][6][7][8] Titus began her solo career in the fall of 1875 as a song and dance act with Tony Pastor's vaudeville company and by the late 1880s she was billing herself as the "Anglo-American Lyric Star".

[1][12] The sole vocal and musical success is achieved by Miss Lydia Yeamans, who sings "Sally in Our Alley" so charmingly as, on the night of our visit at all events, to obtain a triple encore, so genuine, hearty, and unanimous, that it seemed as if the audience were delighted to have an opportunity of showing how thoroughly they could appreciate anything really good..The reappearance in town of Lydia Yeamans-Titus is always a matter of interest, for this artiste is invariably admirable, original and vivacious.

She promises splendid new vocal selections, and her comedy work will, of course, be excellent.In songs descriptive of child-life Lydia Yeamans Titus has no superior on the contemporaneous stage.

She readily commands a salary of two hundred dollars a week.In June 1892, she was engaged to perform at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Before the first show her husband, pianist Frederick J. Titus, became upset over the piano the theatre had provided for their act and over an issue with their placement on the night's billing card.

Titus supported some of Hollywood's most well known and legendary stars like Rudolph Valentino (A Society Sensation, 1918), Lon Chaney (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Ronald Colman (Tarnish, 1924) and Jackie Coogan (The Rag Man).