Arvilla Erskine (c.1828-1907) was born in Richmond, Maine, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She spent the majority of her life living in East Boston, where she was a member of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church (which later became the Methodist Street Bethel). While Erskine received a letter of dismissal from the Meridian Street church in 1875, records show that she joined the Church of Christ (Scientist) a decade later, in 1885. Her name disappears from the Church records completely in about 1887.

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