Mary Alice Hearrell Murray was an American and Chickasaw woman who served as the First Lady of Oklahoma between 1931 and 1935.

[2] After the American Civil War he changed his last name to Hearrell and married his third wife, and Mary Alice's mother, Martha America Walker.

[3] When Hearell was eight, her father grew ill and she was sent to live with her uncle, Douglas H. Johnston, who at the time was the superintendent of Bloomfield Seminary, a female boarding school.

[4] At school, she grew very close to her uncle Johnston and her education focused on both her "Indian heritage" and "navigat[ing] the demands of the white world.

[7] She returned to live with her uncle Douglas H. Johnston by 1897 when her mom became ill and she started teaching at Bloomfield.