Biography of Charles Asbury Stokes, Dale, Alabama =============================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Christine Thacker ==================================================================== October 2000 Source: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1911, page 86 Legislative Department, Twenty-third District, Dale and Geneva Counties Charles Asbury Stokes, of Ozark, Dale County, Alabama, was born November 9, 1856 at Louisville, Barbour County, Alabama and is the son of Seborn Glen and Emma Simeon (Laney) Stokes, and the grandson of Major Henry and Rhoda (Dowling) Stokes and of Evan and Leah (Segrest) Laney. The Stokes and Dowling families came from Virginia to Georgia and thence to southeast Alabama, where they, in various branches, have been prominent for more than seventy-five years. Seaborn G. Stokes was a business man and resided in Dale, Henry and Barbour Counties. He was a private soldier in Capt. Wm.H. Stukey's company, Alabama regiment, and died of pneumonia in the Confederate hospital at Knoxville, Tenn., Dec 14, 1862, and he is there buried. Senator Stokes was educated in the common schools and the academies of Dale and Henry counties. He is a merchant and a live stock dealer, in which business he has been actively engaged since 1889, at Ozark, Alabama. He is at present a charter member and one of the directors of the Planters and Merchants Bank, a charter member and president of the Mutual Fertilizer Company, president of the C.A. Stokes Live Stock Company, and he also has an interest in many other enterprises. He is a Democrat. He is a member of the Methodist Church and has been a steward for over thirty-two years. He is a Mason, and a member of the Woodmen of the World. His wife is Nancy Ellen, daughter of Daniel Beasley, Sr. and wife, Eliza (Jernigan) Beasley, natives of North Carolina"