Elvina Mable Hall (4 June 1820 – 18 July 1889)[1] was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics to the well-known hymn, which is now known as "Jesus Paid It All," also known as "I hear the Saviour say" (Christ All and in All).
They had at least three children together that lived to adulthood, Agnes, Asenath, and Ella, and two that died as infants, Benoni and Ada.
In the spring of 1865, Hall wrote "Jesus Paid It All" "on the fly-leaf of the New Lute of Zion hymnal, in the choir of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore.
In 1885 Hall remarried Thomas Myers (1813-1894), a Methodist minister, at the home of her daughter, Ella.
Elvina Hall died in Ocean Grove, New Jersey on July 18, 1889, and her funeral was held at the St. John Catholic Church, and she was buried in the Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.