When Isephene Winona Ashby was born on 15 January 1902, in Pleasant Hill, Sabine, Louisiana, United States, her father, Adolphus D. Ashby, was 21 and her mother, Mattie Belle Bruce, was 19. She had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Marvin David Allen. She lived in Sabine, Louisiana, United States in 1920. She died on 10 November 1977, in Blanchard, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Blanchard, Caddo, Louisiana, United States.