Alice Warren Milligan was the second child and daughter 
of Thomas Stuart and Louisa Warren Milligan. She was 
born on December 18, 1850, in a humble home located five 
miles west of Gosport and a quarter of a mile south of 
Hudson Hill cemetery. The family's life revolved around 
the centers of "church" and school, her father being a 
Presbyterian missionary from Pennsylvania who followed 
his brothers to Indiana in the 1830's.  
Alice was educated at home as well as in the district 
schools. She went on to college where she earned a degree 
in teaching Latin and Algebra. She was well respected by 
her students and the community. She was known as "Aunt 
Alice" to all. 
Alice also taught a former slave from North Carolina, 
Luke Phillips, mathematice as well as reading and writing. 
Luke had come to Indiana with his father,Peter Phillips, 
about 1890. Luke worked as a handyman for Alice's brother, 
Albert Milligan. Luke's children all went on to get an 
education. One son became a teacher, and a grandson 
became a doctor. Luke's youngest daughter, Francis Phillips, 
still resides in Owen County at the age of ninety-four.  
At the age of seventy-eight Alice accompanied her eighty 
year old sister to Europe in 1928, just prior to the Second 
World War. Her accounts of their travels were published 
in the Spencer newspaper.
Alice never married. She took care of her elderly mother 
the last years of her mother's life. Following her mother's 
death she went to live with her brother, James, until his 
death.
Alice died in 1945 at the age of ninety five. She is buried 
in Hudson Hill Cemetery with her parents and brother.

CONTRIBUTED BY: Diane Hitchcock-Owens