Albert Wesley "Doc" Stokes

1854 - 1944  (89 years)

• Name	Albert Wesley "Doc" Stokes
  Born	1 Nov 1854	Indiana, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Deed	20 Feb 1878	[Stokes to Morgan], Howell County, Missouri   [2]
  	On this date J. R. and A. W. Stokes sold 120 acres to George W. Morgan.
  	"The East half the North East quarter and the North East quarter of the South East of Section Thirty five in Township Twenty Seven North of Range Eight West in the County of Howell and State of Missouri containing 120 acres."
  Died	7 Sep 1944	Glencoe, Payne County, Oklahoma   [3]
  Person ID	I3440	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2012

  
  

  Father	Commodore Perry Stokes
  Mother	Lucyann Jane Reed
  Married	Y  [1]
  Family ID	F67	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eudocia Josephine "Docia" Walker,   b. 15 Dec 1854, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 4 Sep 1945, Glencoe, Payne County, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 90 years)
  Married	31 Aug 1876	Howell County, Missouri, USA   [4, 5, 6, 7]
  	Doc Stokes' obituary (posted by Pat Stokes on his FindAGrave entry) states their marriage date as 30 July 1876. It was not recorded until 15 November 1876, so it is possible that T. C. Bolerjack, the J.P. who performed the marriage, may have made an error.
  Children	1. Perry Helton "Shorty" Stokes,   b. 12 Jun 1877, Missouri, USA ,   d. 5 Sep 1970, Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma  (Age 93 years)   2. Girtie Stokes,   b. 11 Feb 1879, Howell County, Missouri, USA ,   d. 29 Sep 1879, Howell County, Missouri, USA  (Age 0 years)   3. Luther Stokes,   b. 18 Aug 1880, Missouri, USA ,   d. 19 Nov 1881, Missouri, USA  (Age 1 years)   4. Sarah Stokes,   b. 1882, Missouri, USA ,   d. 1886, Missouri, USA  (Age 4 years)   5. Albert Stokes,   b. Apr 1884, Howell County, Missouri, USA ,   d. 10 Sep 1884, Howell County, Missouri, USA  (Age ~ 0 years) + 6. James Walter Stokes,   b. 22 Apr 1886, Missouri, USA ,   d. 15 Nov 1969, Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma  (Age 83 years) + 7. Thomas Earl Stokes,   b. 31 Aug 1888, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA ,   d. 15 May 1970, Pawnee, Pawnee County, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 81 years)   8. Robert Wesley Stokes,   b. 16 Oct 1890, Hutton Valley Township, Howell County, Missouri ,   d. 3 Oct 1984, Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 93 years) + 9. Fred Stokes,   b. 31 Jan 1893, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA ,   d. 10 Dec 1960, El Monte, Los Angeles County, California, USA  (Age 67 years) + 10. William Earnest Stokes,   b. 11 Mar 1895, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA ,   d. 16 Apr 1976, Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma  (Age 81 years)   11. Ruby Stokes,   b. 5 Nov 1900,   d. 25 Dec 1901  (Age 1 years)
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2014
  Family ID	F1165	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Sale of 120 acres by J. R. and A. W. Stokes to George W. Morgan Howell County, Missouri, Deeds, H:114, Stokes to Morgan, 1878; FHL film no. 931,684.
  		"Doc" and "Docia" Stokes, in a 1941 Ripley's Believe It Or Not syndicated newspaper item. Newspaper clipping, said to be a Ripley's Believe It Or Not item; handwritten note identifies it as appearing in the Denver (Colorado) Post, 26 January 1941. Original held by Pat Simmons (Tulsa, Ok.), great granddaughter of Albert W. and Eudocia (Walker) Stokes through their son William Ernest and his daughter Clarice Marie (Stokes) Simmons.
  		Marriage certificate and return, Docia and Doc Stokes, 1876, Howell County, Missouri Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book B:111, A. W. Stokes-Edocia [Eudocia] Walker, 1876, certificate and return; Recorder

  
  

• Sources

  [S43] Johnston, Sandra, (Sandra Johnston (Oklahoma) to Janis Walker Gilmore, e-mail, 2 Oct 1998.). [S2116] Howell County, Missouri, Deeds, H:114, Stokes to Morgan, 1878; FHL film no. 931,684. [S1149] Walker, Eudocia & Doc Stokes - email, Pat Smmons (15 Aug 2009), Pat Siimmons, Tulsa, Oklahoma [(E-ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE),]. [S3786] Howell County, Missouri, marriage book [1876]: 111, Stokes-Walker; "Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 August 2013); Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. [S2567] 1900 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Chapel township, enumeration district (ED) 52, sheet 15A, p. 37 (stamped, recto), dwelling 287, family 289, Albert W. Stokes household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 860. [S3787] Pat Simmons, contributor, "Albert Wesley 'Doc' Stoke s" (1944), digital image of marker and unsourced obituary, memorial 25809697, FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com/index.html : viewed 24 August 2013). [S4371] Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book B:111, A. W. Stokes-Edocia [Eudocia] Walker, 1876, certificate and return; Recorder’s Office, West Plains.