On November 30, 1903, Frances Daisy Emery married James Walter Allen, a classmate from Fort Worth Medical College with whom she had remained a relationship. Allen was a native of White Settlement, in western Tarrant County.The couple moved to Vinson, Oklahoma Territory, where Dr. Walter Allen had opened a medical practice, but were forced to again relocate when most of the town—including their home—was destroyed in a fire initially caused by a tornado.