Isabella Williams was born in 1854 in Chicago, Illinois, to John Marshall Williams and Elizabeth Caroline Smith of Evanston, Illinois.
 She married Charles D. Blaney (1854–1923) on September 6, 1877, in Evanston, and in 1883 they moved to a large ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California.

They had a child, Clarissa Butler Blaney, who died in 1901 of typhoid fever at age 17.
After the daughter's death, the Blaneys helped pay for the construction of an isolation ward at O'Connor Hospital in her memory.

Her husband dealt in real estate and was chairman of the first California Highway Commission.
He died on July 24, 1923.

Isabella Blaney was said to have "traveled extensively, is interested in foreign missions and is the principal promoter, if not the founder, of a medical hospital in Northern China."

She died in Santa Clara on March 9, 1933, at the age of 80.
Isabella Williams was born in 1854 in Chicago, Illinois, to John Marshall Williams and Elizabeth Caroline Smith of Evanston, Illinois.  She married Charles D. Blaney (1854–1923) on September 6, 1877, in Evanston, and in 1883 they moved to a large ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California.
They had a child, Clarissa Butler Blaney, who died in 1901 of typhoid fever at age 17. After the daughter's death, the Blaneys helped pay for the construction of an isolation ward at O'Connor Hospital in her memory.
Her husband dealt in real estate and was chairman of the first California Highway Commission. He died on July 24, 1923. 
Isabella Blaney was said to have "traveled extensively, is interested in foreign missions and is the principal promoter, if not the founder, of a medical hospital in Northern China."
She died in Santa Clara on March 9, 1933, at the age of 80.
Isabella W. Blaney