Aline Murray Kilmer

Ada Murray remarried on February 22, 1900 in Metuchen, New Jersey to Henry Mills Alden, the managing editor of Harper's Magazine; he became Aline's stepfather.

[3] Their daughter Rose was stricken with an infantile paralysis shortly after her birth, a crisis which led Joyce and Aline to convert to Roman Catholicism.

[4] Shortly before Joyce's deployment to France in World War I, Rose Kilburn Kilmer died, predeceasing both her parents.

During his deployment, her husband was killed in action during the Second Battle of the Marne near Muercy Farm, beside the Ourcq River near the French village of Seringes-et-Nesles on July 30, 1918 at the age of 31.

Her poetry has been described as "subtle, delicate, and somewhat subdued — certainly far from gayety", and with a tone of "ironic disillusionment" compared to her husband's as "direct, vigorous, gay.