Introduction

Biography

Elvin was the daugh­ter of Cap­tain Da­vid Rey­nolds. She mar­ried twice: to Ri­chard Hall of West­more­land Coun­ty, Vir­gin­ia, and, af­ter his death, to Tho­mas Mey­ers, a Me­tho­dist min­is­ter of the Bal­ti­more, Ma­ry­land, Con­fer­ence (mar­ried at the home of her daugh­ter, Ella Blanche Hall Cleave­land, Sep­tem­ber 8, 1885).

She at­tend­ed the Mo­nu­ment Street Me­tho­dist Church in Bal­ti­more for four de­cades.