My attempts to find ... notes on Mumford Stokes led me again to some of
the quotes from Perry's booklet that I find ... offensive. I have taken the following from
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7590/Stokes.htm
"Excerpts from Will of Ann Stokes, dated May 20, 1813: daughter Sarah Hurt and my
children: Elizabeth Dogan, William Stokes, Allen Stokes, legatees of my deceased daughter,
Mary Bacon, German Y. Stokes and Hamlin F. Stokes" (5)
.....5 Young Stokes d. April 30, 1778, a Revolutionary soldier, 6th VA Reg. Cont. Line,
Capt. James Johnson's Co. (5)
.....5 William Stokes d. after 1813
Known as "Uncle Buck" b. July 16, 1762 m. Nancy Carter b. April 20, 1769 (5)
......6 Susa Stokes b. October 25, 1787 m. Robert Ward December 22, 1808 (5)
......6 William Allen Stokes b. July 20, 1791 d. January 7, 1832 m. Mary
Terry Lowery. They had 6 children. William married
again (wife unnamed) and had 3 children. (5)
......6 Mary H. Stokes b. October 1, 1796 m. Alexander B. Moon (5)
......6 Drury Y. Stokes b. December 16, 1799 m. Saluda Jeffreys August 11,
1823 (5)
......6 Nancy C. Stokes b. May 25, 1802 m. January 9, 1817 to J. T. Street (5)
......6 John C. Stokes b. February 20, 1805 never married (5)
......6 Richard H. Stokes married January 9, 1817 Lorinda Farmer (5) "
* - The
Stokes Family of Lunenburg County Virginia, Wilkes & Lincoln Co. Georgia and Yalobusha
& Grenada Co. Mississippi" by John Perry
Notation "(5)" refers to this Perry booklet. |
I have looked at some of the same material and would like ... to present my version.
My differences are as follows:
Ann Stokes will has the name as "Elizabeth Dozier" instead of
Dogan and that name appears here and there in deed and tax records for Lunenburg. The
William Stokes who fathered the children listed died in 1843 and his will lists all of his
children except Susannna (Susa) who had died in 1811. Her marriage and death are recorded
in the family bible that I own and it is available from the Library of VA in digital form.
I cannot find anywhere a birth date for this William nor can I find a record of his
marriage to anyone named Nancy Carter. Someone named William Stokes married a Nancy
Crenshaw and I **believe** this is the one who died in 1843.
Susanna Stokes married Raleigh Carter; she died in 1811 as noted and he in
1813. This couple is tied to the William who died in 1843 by the will of his son John C.
and by original correspondence, copies of which I have in hand.
William A. Stokes indeed married Mary Tarry Lowr(e)y; their children and
those by his second wife, Lucy Ann Street, are listed in his father's will.
Mary Stokes did not exist! Nancy Carter, daughter of Susanna and Raleigh
Carter married Alexander Bacon Moon, my g-gfather.
Drury Stokes did indeed marry Saluda Jeffress (note spelling) and died
intestate about 1855 from an inventory of his estate.
Nancy did marry John Thomson Street and then Thomas T. Shackleton after
Street died. She died about 1870, I think.
John C. Stokes died in 1846 and his will speaks of his siblings and nieces
and nephews.
Richard H, was not the son of William Stokes who died in 1843, but of
someone else. He is not in the will. The William who died in 1843 also married Martha
Anderson Craig Stevenson Lowry (her third husband) in 1809, well after his children were
born and she must have died before him as she is not in the will. Yet the existence of
that marriage, and the identification of the people is firmly rooted in several deeds in
Lunenburg in the period 1804-1830.
-- James C. Thompson
9/25/99
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