Her father died sometime before 1871, and her mother married George Wrigglesworth en Rollingstones, a widowed farmer in Halton County.
The family moved to Georgetown after Wrigglesworth retired from farming, where Lydia and her older sister Margaret made ladies hats.
[3] The Hall sisters began touring Methodist churches in southern Ontario, where they typically held nightly revival services for a two-week period, sometimes for as long as a month.
In these meetings the sisters tried to lead the seekers to salvation with "exemplary tact and sanctified common sense ... equal to any emergency".
As their reputation grew the Hall sisters were asked to travel further to visit larger churches in Hamilton, Toronto and the United States.