When Alice Gertrude Stevens was born on 10 January 1858, in Port Gibson, Claiborne, Mississippi, United States, her father, Eli Tompson Stevens, was 36 and her mother, Susan Elizabeth Richards, was 35. She married Junius Greenway Parham on 29 April 1877. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Beat 3, Sharkey, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Rolling Fork, Sharkey, Mississippi, United States in 1920. She died on 25 December 1939, in Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Rolling Fork, Sharkey, Mississippi, United States.