Elizabeth Eloise Wilkes, Eloise to her family and friends, was born in Durant, Mississippi, the daughter of Benjamin B. and Elvira (nicknamed Dump) Heffner Wilkes. Eloise attended Ward-Belmont School for Girls and Young Women in Nashville, Tennessee, and Shorter College in Rome, Georgia where she graduated circa 1915. At Shorter she was president of the Polymnian Literary Society.
From the description of Elizabeth Eloise Wilkes papers 1895-1917 (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 191735380