Florence Avalon Daggett born in Jennings, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana and was raised on a plantation.
[8] Daggett also made films about sights in her home state of Louisiana, and about Mississippi.
[5] She made a film for the Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission, entitled A Way of Life (1961).
[9] After she died in 2002, the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) was left with an endowment for professorships by Daggett.
[6] Daggett had been friends with Dr. Joe Musick, the former director of the Rice Research Station at LSU AgCenter (near Crowley); where many of her bequeathed funds were used.