 Alice, who was also raised in Cincinnati, was a daughter of Rachel Moore (née Flagg) and lawyer Abraham Evan Gwynne.After her father's death in 1855, her mother remarried to Albert Mathews, who wrote under the name Paul Siogvolk.Alice's siblings included David Eli Gwynne, Abram Evan Gwynne, Cettie Moore (née Gwynne) Shepherd, and Edith Olivia (née Gwynne) Gill.