When Elsie Leona Butler was born on 29 August 1903, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, John Townsend Butler, was 22 and her mother, Rachel May Holmes, was 20. She married Albert Roy Weaver on 18 November 1919, in Gooding, Gooding, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Gooding, Idaho, United States in 1935 and Falls City, Jerome, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died in 1970, in Gooding, Gooding, Idaho, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Gooding, Gooding, Idaho, United States.