When Alice Arnold was born on 25 August 1906, in Kentucky, United States, her father, David Alexander Arnold, was 26 and her mother, Myrtle Regina Hamilton, was 19. She married Seldon Cox. She lived in Laurel, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 23 July 1989, at the age of 82, and was buried in Poynters Chapel Cemetery, Baldrock, Laurel, Kentucky, United States.