Alexander was born Mary White to William White and Mary Ella (Ferguson) White. She stated that she had attended Immaculata Seminary in Washington, D.C. She married John Ira Alexander in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 28, 1911, the couple had two children and divorced in January 1929. She later married Emil Charles Held and they lived in the DC area, while she pursued an interest in art, teaching painting classes at the Federal Supply Offices in Washington, D.C. She died of "a heart ailment" in Washington, D.C., on April 16, 1955. Since her husband served in World War I, she was buried in
Arlington National Cemetery. ==References==