1875 Birth:255,638, p. 132 (Probate Court Death Records, Matilda Richardson, v. 1, p. 90) Birth date of 3 June 1875 taken from a page in Grandmother Rebecca Morey's family Bible. Birth place of Logan Township, Auglaize County, Ohio based on information that her mother, Matilda Morey Richardson, died in that location in July 1877.

1880 U.S. Census:1002 Elva enumerated in the household of her grandmother Rebecca Morey in Wapakoneta, Auglaize County, Ohio as a 5 year old granddaughter, born in Ohio.