Mary Alice

<p>Mary Alice Walden was a renaissance woman. Born in the mid-1800s she was the offspring of an illiterate Gypsy girl and the “black sheep” of a prosperous family. Alice as she would come to be known was educated by a wealthy relative and raised as a devout Christian. When she married she and her husband moved from Illinois to Oregon where he worked as a logger and she as a nurse/midwife in the logging camps along the Washington border. </p><p>Alice was a strong intelligent talented and resourceful woman who raised a large family while working and rescuing sick injured and/or lost souls.</p>