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Elvira, the 17-year-old youngest daughter of A.P.Stockton and thebaby sister of Annie Stockton Fariss, is shown living with Ira JonesFariss and Annie in the 1900 Giddings Census, as is her baby nieceMinnie. Annie F. Stockton, 8-year-old daughter of William MurrayStockton and sister of Minnie, is enumerated in 1900 both with I. J.Fariss and with her grandmother Martha Arnold.
Elvira was married in the Baptist Church in Giddings. Preparing to goto the church, the bride descended the staircase of the I. J. Farisshome wearing a beautiful rose-colored dress.
Jim Warren bootlegged for a while in Lincoln.
She and Jim then lived in Kennedale, a suburb of Ft. Worth. Soonafter her first son Gus was born in July 1910, she left Jim and cameback to Giddings to live again in the Fariss home. She returned toJim after a while.
Elvira was a librarian in Kennedale.
One day in Kennedale, Jim left for work and never came home. He justdisappeared, and we don't know what happened to him. Elvira had to comeback to Giddings again. I. J. Fariss arranged for a truck in Ft. Worthto bring her furniture back to Giddings. There wasn't much furniturereally. Elvira was having a very bad time.
Her sons Jim and Holman came with her. Jim took one look atGiddings, and decided that it was too small a town for him, so he wentback to Kennedale. Holman stayed.
Holman was a little bit retarded. He made trinkets and chains fromthe tin-foil of chewing gum wrappers.
Elvira never had a satisfactory life until she moved once again toKennedale, where her sons helped to take care of her. She died inKennedale.
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