When Elva Leora Adams was born on 6 December 1907, her father, Stephen Blake Adams, was 38 and her mother, Ida Viola Barnes, was 31. She married David Leslie Stevens on 29 August 1923, in Craig, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Texas, United States in 1935 and Commissioner's Precinct 4, Upton, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 22 December 1994, in Hatch, Doña Ana, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Hatch, Doña Ana, New Mexico, United States.