Alice Cook was born around 1846 in Illinois to Moses H. Cook and Hannah Pixley. Her father was a farmer who owned $4,000 of real estate and $1,000 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Crete, Illinois. She married Nathaniel G. Wheldon there on November 26, 1868. They settled in Waverly, Iowa, and her husband worked as a farmer. By 1870, they owned $500 of personal property. They returned to Crete in the 1870s, and by 1880, they were living in her parents’ household. She died sometime after 1880.