Emma Woods (d. 1914)

Emma Woods was born in Kentucky, and was living in Helena, Montana when she heard news of the Klondike strike. She came over the Chilkoot Pass and was in Dawson in 1898. Woods was employed in the household of the Dell Bundy family and was a member of Dawson’s sizeable black community. After her death, her friends erected an impressive cross to mark her grave in Dawson’s St. Mary’s Cemetery.¹⁾