From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Lucy Octavia Wimberly Gillon of Ringgold in Bienville Parish

On the back: Mama and Tavia Gillon
On the left: Lucy Octavia Wimberly Gillon
On the right: Mary Marguerite "Maggie" Martin Cook, mother
of Marguerite Cook Clark

Lucy Octavia "Tavia" Wimberly Gillon was the daughter of Hugh Robert Wimberly and Lula Martha Lawson. She was born October 21, 1892, in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana. 

Tavia had three siblings; Mary Evvie Wimberly Allums, Eudora Wimberly Givens, and Julius Rush Wimberly. 

She married Edward Belle Gillon about 1915. They owned a store in Ringgold and were members of the Bienville Welfare Bureau. 

Tavia died in 1962 and Edward in 1968. They are buried in the Wimberly Cemetery. 

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.


Wimberly, Vera. Wimberly Family History: Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana, 1837. Houston, Tex.: D. Armstrong, 1979. Print.