Anna was the wife of Captain Ethel Allen. She was the mother of two daughters Winifred and Gertrude and son Clifton M. Allen.
Anna was the daughter of Electra Whitford and Robert Smith.

Cause of death "Brights Disease" which today is nephritis.
Mrs. Allen was 56 years, 10 months and 9 days of age.
Date of birth is calculated by date of death and age.
Source:
Marilyn Johnson
Seeking Michigan.

Obituary of Mrs. Allen, published in the Portland Observer, Friday, February 25, 1898:
Anna Smith Allen, wife of Capt. E. M. Allen, died at her home in this village yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, aged 56 years and 10 months.
For some time prior to two years ago Mrs. Allen had enjoyed fairly good health.
Two years ago she went to Grace hospital, Detroit, and submitted to an operation and came back feeling much better and up to a few months ago enjoyed a fair degree of health, since which time she has been gradually growing weaker and weaker, her great will power and splendid vitality greatly assisting Nature and medicine in the fight against the Grim Reaper.
Many times she would pass into unconsciousness and a comatose state from which it was thought she could not rally; but again and again her great will power would come to her assistance and another lease of life would be the result. But all the time her vitality was being sapped and three days ago she began to lose consciousness, and her attending physician, Dr. Allen, expressed the opinion that it would be impossible for her to again rally. Her sufferings have been great, and repeatedly she expressed the desire that she might die and begged the attendants to allow her to end her suffering in death. The immediate cause of her death was Bright disease (kidney disease).
Mrs. Allen was born in Marion, N.Y., April 15th, 1841. Her early life was spent in the vicinity of her birthplace, where she acquired a liberal education, which she supplemented in later years by thoughtful and liberal
reading.
She was married to Capt. E. M. Allen in November 1863, and went with her husband to Virginia, where she lived in a tent after visiting the picket line and other places of interest and peril, sharing her husband's fatigue and hardships with a fortitude known only to the heroic women who lived in those eventful years.
The family moved to Portland in 1874 and her long residence here has endeared her to a large circle of acquaintances and cemented a friendship which will bridge the tomb and ripen into stronger ties in the great hereafter. She was inspired thoroughly by unselfish, generous and gentle impulses, and her whole life was a blessing to others in kindly word and deed. For many years she has been a consistent member of the M. E. church from which she will be missed as one gone on before.
Funeral services will be conducted from her late home at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Revs. Bray and Millard will officiate. Besides her husband, Mrs. Allen leaves three children: Winifred Bell of Seattle; Gertrude, who has been
constantly with her mother for the past four months, and Clifton.
Capt. Allen has the sympathy of a large circle of friends in Portland, particularly among the business men, with whom he has been identified for the past quarter of a century; and also among the old soldiers and W.R.C., of whom he has always been a friend and adviser.

Grand Rapids Herald
Death of a Bankers Wife
Portland, Mich., Feb 25.- The wife of Capt. E.M. Allen, a banker of this place and well known Michigan politician and Grand Army man, died here yesterday afternoon, after a protracted illness of Bright's disease. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon. She was prominent in social and church circles.

Additional Comments:
Captain Ethel M. Allen and his wife Anna were the parents of two daughters, Winifred and Gertrude Allen and one son, Clifton.
Note: Seeking Michigan listed her last name as "Alles", I have provided a correction. Marilynn Johnson