Alice J. McCormick (maiden name: Leckliter) was born around 1831 in Ohio. She married Andrew W. McCormick on December 25, 1851, and they had at least six children: Emma, born around 1853; Frank, born around 1855; Andrew, born around 1858; Lynn, born around 1861; Ida, born around 1866; and Mary, born around 1869.
They lived in Marietta, Ohio, and her husband worked as a newspaper editor, postmaster, and lawyer. By 1860, they owned $500 of personal property. She strongly supported the Union war effort, insisting that “the man who would not fight for his country in its hour of peril would be unworthy to enjoy its blessings.”
By 1870, the family owned $1,500 of real estate and $800 of personal property. They moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1870s, and her husband died there on March 8, 1905. Her health deteriorated around the same time. In March 1905, a local writer observed that she had “not been told of [her husband’s] death, for it is feared she, too, has not long to live.” She probably died shortly afterward.