From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Eudora "Dora" Wimberly Givens

Two weeks ago, I posted the obituaries and a photo of Octavia "Tavia" Wimberly Gillon. Today, I have her sister's obituary. 

Son of Samuel W. Givens and
Sallie Elizabeth Butler
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Eudora "Dora" Wimberly Givens was about a year older than her sister. She was born on March 12, 1891, to Hugh Robert Wimberly and Lula Martha Lawson. 

Dora's father, Hugh Wimberly, and brother-in-law, J. Frank Allums, owned the Wimberly-Allums Store from at least 1910. 

Before her marriage to William Albert Givens in 1919, I found Dora mentioned frequently in community news. She was very involved in the family's store. As early as 1912 she was going on buying trips to St. Louis and New Orleans. 

Dora married William Albert "Jack" Givens on December 22, 1919, at her parents home.  Jack, often found in newspapers as "Albert" or "W. Albert," was the agricultural demonstrator in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. After their marriage, Dora and Jack moved to Winnsboro. From Jack's obituary, it appears they moved to Ringgold and lived there for a long period of time. 

It was written in the Wimberly book that the Wimberly-Allums store closed once Hugh Wimberly died in 1936. Could this store have been the predecessor to The Economy Store? Readers of the post about Tavia mentioned that Dora and her husband worked in the Economy store along with Tavia and her husband. 

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Diana

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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. 

Newspapers.com 

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