Eudora Cragin KNOX^[1]

1880 - 1973  (92 years)

• Name	Eudora Cragin KNOX
  Nickname	Dora
  Birth	1 May 1880	Mississippi   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Feb 1973  [3]
  	Dora died during February 1973. She was 92 years old. Her last residence was Water Valley, Mississippi.
  Person ID	I64713	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Calvin KNOX,   b. 5 Jun 1840, Milan, Gibson Co, TN
  Mother	Henrietta Clay CRAGIN,   b. 27 Sep 1845, Mississippi
  Marriage	23 Jan 1866	Bynum Creek, Panola Co, MS   [1]
  	The couple was married at Bynum Creek, Mississippi on 23 January 1866.
  Notes	The 1900 census notes that Henrie had given birth to 13 children, of whom 8 were living on 5 June 1900.
  Family ID	F7842	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	(unknown) PERKINS
  Marriage	Before Apr 1910  [4]
  	The 1910 census notes "Dora Perkins" as a widow, living in the household of her father, Nicholas Knox.
  Family ID	F7846	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Wadlington H. FELKER,   b. 30 Dec 1869, Mississippi d. 15 May 1967 (Age 97 years)
  Marriage	Between 15 Apr 1910 - Jan 1920  [4, 5]
  	The couple was married after 15 April 1910, when Dora was enumerated as a "widow" in the 1910 census, but before 14 January 1920, when she was enumerated as the wife of Wadlington Felker. The description of Jimmie Knox as Wadlington's "stepmother-in-law" in the 1920 census, substantiates the fact that Dora K. Felker was Dora Knox Perkins Felker.
  Family ID	F7851	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Resided: June 1880, Panola Co, MS [S5308] Resided: June 1900, Panola Co, MS [S5309] Resided: April 1910, Panola Co, MS [S5310] Resided: January 1920, Lafayette Co, MS [S5317] Resided: April 1930, Lafayette Co, MS Resided: April 1940, Lafayette Co, MS

  
  

• Sources

  [S5306] Dunbar Rowland, compiler, Rowland, The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, 1904, ((Nashville, TN, Brandon Printing Co, 1904)). p. 557: Nicholas Calvin Knox biography. [S5308] 1880 US Census / Knox, N.C. [S5315] Eudora Felker. SSN 587-10-0563. SSDI. [S5310] 1910 US Census / Knox, Nicholas C. [S5317] 1920 US Census / Felker, Wadlington.