Alice Rollit Coe
Alice Rollit Coe was a Canadian emigrant to the United States, Seattle housewife and author. She wrote Lyrics of Fir and Foam and Chimes Rung by the University District Herald.Biography
She was born Alice Sarah Rollit in Rawdon, Quebec, Canada on September 20, 1858, to John Charles Rollit and Elizabeth Rollit. Her father was an Episcopal Minister, who moved his family to the United States and was living in Minneapolis with them in 1880. She had at least two sisters growing up.
She married Alfred Byron Coe on November 14, 1889, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and had four children with him: Charles Rollit Coe, Winnifred Elizabeth Coe, Algernon Sydney Coe, and Constance Mary Coe. In the 1920 census in Seattle she was listed as being a teacher. In the 1930 census in Seattle she was a private tutor.
She died in Seattle, Washington, on December 8, 1940.Works
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