Born 8 September 1876 in Payson, Utah County, Utah Territory. Daughter of Jesse Knight and Amanda McEwan. Set apart as one of the first two single women to serve as full-time proselytizing missionaries (British Mission), 1 April 1898. Arrived in England with companion Lucy Jane Brimhall, 22 April 1898; served in London Conference. Returned from mission, 11 June 1900. Married Robert Eugene Allen, 11 June 1902; five children. Died 5 June 1937 in Provo, Utah County, Utah.[1]
[1] Amanda Inez Knight entry, no. 164, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, 1860–1959, Book C, 67, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City; Inez Knight, Journal, 5, 12, L. Tom Perry Special Collection, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; “In the European Mission,” Deseret Weekly (Salt Lake City), 10 Dec. 1898, 818; Alice Louise Reynolds, “Inez Knight Allen,” Relief Society Magazine, July 1937, 403–405; “Death Claims Club, Church Leader in City,” Salt Lake Tribune, 6 June 1937, A17.