Alma was born 18 Oct 1854 to William Greenwood, and Alice Beardsworth Houghton.

On 12 Jun 1879 he married Florence Melissa Brown in Salt Lake City. They had three: Samuel Alma Greenwood, Alice Helen Derrick and Fern Vance.

Following her death he married Mary Evelyn Olson on 19 Jan 1894. She died following the birth of their son Evan Alma.

His third wife was Annena Sorenson. They had no children.

Salt Lake Tribune, The - Friday, March 22, 1929, Salt Lake City, Utah

Alma Greenwood Ends Active Career at Home in Delta

Special to The Tribune.

DELTA.—Alma Greenwood, widely known in Utah as an educator, and founder of both the old Mlllard stake academy end of the Sanpete stake academy, which later became the Snow academy and is now Snow College, died in Delta about 6 o'clock Thursday morning. Mr. Greenwood was a member of the Utah legislature from Utah county in the sessions of 1917 and 1919 and had been active in other forms of public activity he held several county offices and was an active Democrat.

Mr. Greenwood sustained an attack of the influenza some time ago he had apparently recovered, and Wednesday night was apparently in his usual health. He became ill about 5 a. m. and death an hour later was attributed either to acute gastritis or a heart attack.

Funeral services will be held a Delta, which has been Mr. Greenwood's home, for the past several years, Saturday, at 10 a.m.. The body will be taken to Fillmore. where additional services wi ll be held in the First ward chapel, Sunday, at 2 p. m. Interment will be at Fillmore.

He was the son of William Greenwood and Alice Houghton Greenwood, pioneers of 1847, and was born in American Fork, October 18, 1854. The early years of his life were spent in American Fork, where he worked upon his father's farm and attended the Brigham Young university at Provo and was one of the original twenty-nine students of that institution then under the direction of Dr. Carl G. Maeser. He graduated in 1878 and went to Fillmore to take charge of the district schools of that city. In 1882 he performed a mission for the L. D. S. church In New Zealand and baptized hundreds of the natives. Upon his return he organized the Millard stake academy under the direction of the church authorities. This was the original academy under the church system of education.

In 1888 he was called to Sanpete county, where he organized the Sanpete stake academy later known as the Snow academy, at Ephraim.

That he possessed rare qualifications as an organizer and teacher is testified to by many leading men and women In Utah who refer to him as a man of wonderful influence with his students.

Mr. Greenwood married on June 19 1879, Florence Melissa Brown of Fillmore to whom four children were born, three of whom survive, Samuel Greenwood, Los Angeles, Cal.; Alice Helen Derrick, and Fern Greenwood Vance of Salt Lake.

After the death of his first wife he married Evelyn Mary Olson to whom was born a son, Evan Alma Greenwood, now of t he U.S. Navy Washington, D. C. His mother died at his birth. In 1901 Mr. Greenwood married Annena Sorensen of Fillmore, who survives him. The following brothers and sisters also are living: Benjamin Y. Greenwood, Samuel Greenwood, Rachel Greenwood Hunter of American Fork and Judge Joshua Greenwood of Salt Lake.