When Alvina Sophia Welhemina Moerker was born on 9 July 1863, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, her father, August Frederick Moerker, was 25 and her mother, Mary E. Meyerrose, was 23. She married Charles Wild on 28 December 1882, in Saline, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Dorchester, Saline, Nebraska, United States in 1885 and Pohocco Township, Saunders, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years. She died on 10 January 1940, in Fremont, Dodge, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Platteville Cemetery, Saunders, Nebraska, United States.