DORA ANN "MIMI" CALLIS
by Maxine Miller Mason, a daughter
b. 24 Sept. 1883 Dickson, Benton County, Arkansas
d. 18 March 1978 Ojai, Ventura County, California
The Callises were aristocrats (of course) in England and among the first settlers in Virginia according to family tradition. They married into the Bannister, Ford and Duncan families before Mimi linked up with the Millers.
Dora and Robert were married in Benton Co. Arkansas on Jan 11, 1903 which was a snowy, cold and windy day. That afternoon they went along with Mimi's twin, Cora, and Charlie Nichols by buggy several miles to the home of John Brown, a Justice of the Peace. The twins were wearing matching dove gray moire dresses with red cherry accents. They told Mr. Brown that they wanted just one ceremony for both. Brown, who was more nervous than the young couples, said to the men, "Will you take the one you are holding by the right hand to be your wife?" They said they would. When the four of them returned to the home of the girls' parents, it was dark and the house was full of relatives, neighbors and friends for the wedding party (what we now call the reception).
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