When Elna Pehrsson was born on 10 March 1849, in Genarp, Malmöhus, Sweden, her father, Pehr Ohlsson, was 43 and her mother, Catharina Johansdotter, was 42. She married Paul Lauritz Larsson Olson on 30 November 1873. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Kristianstad, Kristianstad, Sweden in 1874 and Malmö, Malmö Slott, Malmöhus, Sweden in 1883. She died on 24 March 1918, in Malmö, Malmö, Malmöhus, Sweden, at the age of 69, and was buried in Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States.