Estelle "Dovey" Eggleston (Caro)

Estelle "Dovey" Eggleston (Caro)

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A native of Marks, Mississippi, Estelle Caro was born 25 August 1911 and died 1 May 2002 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. The 1930 census shows eighteen year-old Estelle worked as a cashier at a theater. She was then living on Myrtle Street in the town of Marks in northeastern Mississippi’s Quitman County.

Later she worked as a nurse.

Estelle was the youngest child of 62-year-old Tennessean Edward D. Caro, a grocery salesman. His wife, Mary B., at 52 was a Mississippian by birth, and she supplemented the family’s income by operating a boarding house. The couple’s two older children also lived at home, daughter Lucile, 25, a law firm stenographer, and son Vernon, who at 21 labored in “public work.”

Stella Stevens tells me that her grandfather was the owner of the grocery. “His wife Mary B. (Belle) Caro might at one time have been the proprietress of a boarding house, but my mother always told me that they lived above the grocery store which her dad owned,” she adds.