When Elizabeth McVey Liter was born on 2 October 1895, in Point Pleasant, Mason, West Virginia, United States, her father, Robert Pogue Liter, was 33 and her mother, Martha Gertrude Taylor, was 28. She married John Erle Beller on 24 February 1918, in Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia, United States. She lived in Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, United States in 1920. She died on 26 June 1955, in Gallipolis, Gallia, Ohio, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Lone Oak Cemetery, Mason, Virginia, United States.