Dorothy Evans was a prostitute during her early adulthood, until she met Robert Ford during his final months in Creede in early 1892. She possessed many talents, including singing and playing the piano, so Ford hired her, and she worked as a burlesque performer and waitress for his nightclub. They shared an apartment together, and she was even engaged to Ford at one point. After his untimely death, she would later be married to a James Feeney of Durango, Colorado in 1900. They would adopt two daughters, and according to rumors, she would mistreat them. Unsatisfied with her marriage, Dorothy Evans got into her green wedding dress one Sunday morning and told her daughters that she was going to take a nap. She then pressed a cloth against her nose--drenched in chloroform--and inhaled until she perished.