When Laura Virginia Fletcher was born on 29 September 1887, in Pratt, Allegany, Maryland, United States, her father, William Fletcher, was 42 and her mother, Nancy Jane Weimer, was 40. She married Ralph Goleria McElfish on 5 August 1906. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Southampton Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years and Chaneysville, Southampton Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. She died on 25 July 1948, in Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Clearville, Monroe Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.