When Cândida Affonso de Almeida was born on 9 October 1884, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, her father, Pedro Affonso da Silva, was 64 and her mother, Cândida Maria de Jesus, was 64. She married Antonio Fernandes de Almeida in 1901, in Minas Gerais, Brazil. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died about 1984, in her hometown, at the age of 100.