Born 5 June 1868 in Salt Lake City.[1] Daughter of William Dunford and Melvina Whitney.[2] Granddaughter of Emmeline B. Wells.[3] At some point after her mother’s divorce from William Dunford and marriage to William W. Woods, took the surname Woods.[4] Taught school in Logan, Cache County, Utah Territory, 1887.[5] Studied music at the New England Conservatory in Boston, 1887–1888.[6] Frequent correspondent with Emmeline B. Wells.[7] Moved to Wallace, Shoshone County, Idaho Territory.[8] Married Henry Richmond Allen, 12 December 1892, in Shoshone County.[9] School trustee for Wallace, 1899.[10] Moved to Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, by late December 1900.[11] Moved to Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, by 1930.[12] Died 5 July 1950 in Los Angeles.[13]
[1] Daisy Dunford entry, Thirteenth Ward, Record of Members, 1859–1870, pp. 54–55, North Thirteenth Ward, part 1, segment 1, Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL); Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 5 June 1894, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells.
[2] Daisy Dunford entry, Thirteenth Ward, Record of Members, 1859–1870, pp. 54–55, North Thirteenth Ward, part 1, segment 1, Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, CHL; Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (University of Utah, 2017), 505.
[3] Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells, 505.
[4] Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells, 124–125, 141–142; Wells, Diary, 1 and 7 Nov. 1874; 1 Oct. 1888; 1 Oct. 1890; memoranda 1890; “Editorial Notes,” Woman’s Exponent (Salt Lake City), 15 Aug. 1888, 44; Shoshone Co., ID, Marriage Records, 1875–1927, microfilm 1548797, item 4, vol. B, p. 42, 12 Dec. 1892, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL).
[5] Wells, Diary, 10 Jan. and 5 June 1887.
[6] Wells, Diary, 9 and 25 Aug. 1887; 21 July 1888; “Editorial Notes,” 44.
[7] See, for example, Wells, Diary, 23 July 1887; 8 May 1889; 27 Apr. 1891; 16 July 1893.
[8] Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells, 273–274; Wells, Diary, 31 Aug. 1888; Shoshone Co., ID, Marriage Records, 1875–1927, microfilm 1548797, item 4, vol. B, p. 42, 12 Dec. 1892, FSL.
[9] Shoshone Co., ID, Marriage Records, 1875–1927, microfilm 1548797, item 4, vol. B, p. 42, 12 Dec. 1892, FSL.
[10] Wells, Diary, 8 and 18 Nov. 1899.
[11] Wells, Diary, 29 Dec. 1900; memoranda 1901.
[12] 1930 U.S. Census, Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., CA, enumeration dist. 19-1261, 89B.
[13] Los Angeles, CA, Death Records, 1930–1963, microfilm 2371901, certificate 11034, 5 July 1950, FSL; “Daisie Dunford Allen,” Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, Spokane Co., WA, Memorial ID 106193094, Find a Grave, accessed 24 July 2024, findagrave.com.