Alice Price

Alice A. Price was born on October 12, 1851 to Salmon, Jr. and Elizabeth H. (Phillips) Price in Illinois, where they ran a family farm near Serena. In the late 1860s, Alice’s mother and father separated, and her mother remarried to a mechanic named Moses Goss. Elizabeth, Alice, and her brother George were living with Moses in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, by the time of the 1870 census. Alice entered the Third State Normal School in September 1869 and graduated with its first class on June 30, 1871.

After graduation, Alice taught in Minnesota schools for at least two years. By May 1875, she and George had moved to Faribault, where she met and married a wood sawyer named John S. Allett a few months later. They had three children: Pearl Elsie (1876), Alta Vista (1878), and Edith Verna (1885). John passed away in late 1888, and Alice moved to Seattle, Washington, with their children plus George, Elizabeth, and Moses the next year. In Seattle, Alice worked as a bookkeeper and stenographer. After Elizabeth passed away and Moses retired, she became the head of household and remained so until she died on April 29, 1935. Alice was buried in Seattle’s Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

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