Birth - affidavit from brother, Aubrey D. Conrow, 1900 census, Clay County, KS; Vanderveer Genealogy, Neosha County, KS, p. 40.
Marriage - Copy of church record.
Death - Certificate, state of Missouri.
Attended rural schools till high school. Attended high school at Kansas State Normal College in Manhattan (now Kansas State University). Graduated from KSU with a teacher's degree in home economics in 1920. Married Carrol James Whisnant 23 August 1922 in Manhattan, Riley Co, KS. Lived in Festoria KS in 1931. Taught several years before and after marriage. Returned to teaching in later years after children were grown. Lived her final years in Our Lady of Mercy Country Home near her son's home in Liberty, MO. She is buried in the rural cemetery in Wabaunsee county, KS, near her grandmother and grandfather - Danniel Vannote Conrow and Sarah VanDerveer Smock.

The following was written by Alda Conrow about 1990 (age 95) and transcribed by Gerry Livers:
"Born July 2, 1895 in Wabaunsee county, Kansas; near what is now Zeandale, Kansas. I lived there with my folks and brother and two sisters until I was about five years of age. When my folks moved to Wakefield, Kansas with (his?) family of Aubrey, Adelle, Grace, John, myself and a cousin of my mother's, Annie May Faulk. We lived there until I was old enough to start in the first grade but as I was with my sister Grace, gathering eggs, a hen had made a nest in a manger where a cow and her new calf was and I guess she was afraid we were going to hurt her calf so she knocked me down and in the scuffle my jaw bone was broken and I had no more schooling that year. I guess I was accident prone, as that same year I was in a buggy pretending I was fishing and lost my balance and fell out and hit a piece of glass near my eye and was laid up for awhille and as my sister Grace and I were in the corral near the house, my father and brother John were coming from town and the team of horses got frightened and as they were coming towards us my father guided them to run into a new granary and as the horses hit it, John, my brother, was thrown from the seat in the wagon, under the feet of the horses and his leg was broken. Otherwise no other injuries. Somewhat later I was in a field where the crop had been harvested and I fell down and part of a stalk had broken off in my leg. Of course I was crying and my mother scolded me for being such a baby, but I kept saying it hurt but it was so near the color of leg it did not show and no blood, but my mother put a poultice on it and the stalk came out. My mother felt so bad that if I cried from a hurt, she babied me. As I said, I was accident prone. One day I was chopping a root from a tree with a corn knife and my heel got in the way and I chopped it and of course I was running to the house. I still have the scar. I can't remember anything serious happening to me for awhile. While we lived in Wakefield two of my sisters were born, Ida and Amy."