Dora Lee LYKINS

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CENSUS RECORDS

1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Dora Lykins
Age: 18
Birth Date: Feb 1882
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1900: Caney, Morgan, Kentucky
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Green Lykins
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Name: Carolina Lykins
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Dora Whitaker
Age in 1910: 29
Birth Year: 1881
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1910: Cannel, Morgan, Kentucky
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: James D Whitaker
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Dora Whiteaker
Age: 38
Birth Year: abt 1882
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1920: Cannel City, Morgan, Kentucky
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: J D Whiteaker
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Dora Whiteaker
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1881
Birthplace: Kentucky
Race: White
Home in 1930: Caney, Morgan, Kentucky
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouse's Name: James D Whiteaker
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Household Members:
James D Whitaker 39 [37]
Dora Whitaker 29

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Dora Whiteaker
Age: 59
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Kentucky
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1940: Morgan, Kentucky
Street: State High Way 191
Inferred Residence in 1935: Morgan, Kentucky
Education: high school, 1 year
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
J D Whiteaker 68
Dora Whiteaker 59

Dora and James had no children of their own and evidently were concerned about child welfare.

News Clipping Written By Helen Price Stacy

Dora Lee Children?s Home of Bloomington, KY was instituted in the old Bridgecroft Children?s Home by two missionaries, Rev. Wilma Miskoley and Miss Margaret Wood who left Cincinnati, OH to come to Morgan County on a mission of child evangelism in the mid 1940s. Phyllis Williams Salyer has told us that the Dora Lee Children?s Home of Bloomington, KY first originated in Cannel City in a small house behind the home of Dr. J. D. and Dora Lee Whitaker; therefore it was named after Dora Lee Lykins Whitaker.

Birth:
Birth info from 1900 census

Died:
Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000
Name: Dora L Whiteaker
Death Date: 21 Oct 1962
Death Place: Fayette
Age: 81
Residence: Magoffin
Volume: 45
Certificate: 22338

Dora married James Daniel WHITEAKER, M.D. 19 Jan 1908. James (son of Alexander WHITEAKER and Zerilda BROWN) was born 1 Oct 1871, Stacy Fork, Morgan Co. KY; died 23 Jan 1946, Morgan Co. KY. [Group Sheet]