Loren and Dora Doxey
Loren Doxey and Dora Doxey were a husband and wife who were charged with murder in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1909, accused of killing a man whom Dora had married in a bigamous relationship. Dora was found not guilty, and the case against Loren was dismissed. Dora was later convicted of bigamy.
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Loren Doxey
Loren Doxey was born on October 20, 1858, in Waterloo, Iowa, the son of Thomas Biscoe Doxey and Margaret Henry Doxey. He was graduated with a medical degree from Rush College in 1894, and set up a medical practice in Joy, Illinois, with the aid of Mary Bridgeford, the principal of Joy High School, whom he married in May 1897. Mary died of tuberculosis in 1898.Doxey drowned in the Tennessee River in Clifton, Tennessee on June 19, 1912.
A coroner's jury ruled the death as accidental.
Dora Doxey
Dora Doxey was born on March 17, 1879, in Millersburg, Illinois, as Dora Fuller, the daughter of Jefferson Fuller, a farmer and land owner in Mercer County, Illinois, and Josephine Himman Awbrey. Dora had two sisters, Mary, older than she, and Grace, younger.In December 1895, at the age of 16, Dora married Robert L. Downing, one of her teachers at Joy High School. They had four children, all of whom died young. The couple separated in September 1903 and divorced in 1905.
Dora was married to Frank J. Le Gear in Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, in 1905, then to Loren Doxey in 1906 in Burlington, Iowa. She married William J. Erder in Clayton, Missouri, on April 26, 1909, and he died on July 10 of that year. Dora Doxey married Fred Whitney in 1912 in Orofino, Idaho, and George Thomas in 1919, supposedly in the same city.
She died in 1921 in San Francisco.