Mobile County AlArchives Obituaries.....Stokes, Davis Slyvanus April 17, 1930
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local paper April 18, 1930
STOKES- Dies Thursday morning, April 17 1930, at 9: 52 o-clock

DAVID SYLVANUS STOKES

Friends of the family are requests to attend the funeral this Friday 
afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Roche Mortuary and at the Roche Mortuary, 
Broad Street, Methodist Church in union Cemetery at Moss Point, Mississippi. 
Arrangements by Roche Mortuary.

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DAVID SYLVANUS STOKES

David Sylvanus Stokes, native of Wilcox County, AL, and a resident of 
Prichard, Mobile County, AL for the past three and a half years, died at the 
residence Beverly Street, Prichard, AL.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary F. (Pendarvis) Lewis Stokes, two sons, 
David Stokes of Mobile, and Benjamin Hardy Stokes of Wilmer, Ala; four 
daughter, Mrs. George Wood of Petal, MS; Mrs. W. J. Owens of Moss Point, 
MS;Mrs. J. K. Murray of Crichton and Mrs. R. W. Seals of Prichard, AL; 25 
grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.

Mr. Stokes was a member of Raphael Semmes Camp, No.11 United Confederate 
Veterans and Company D. 24th Alabama regiment. His funeral will take place 
from Roche Mortuary Broad Street Methodist Church at 2: 00 o’clock this 
afternoon with the Rev. John A. Whisett officiating. The following grandsons 
served as active pallbearers: Roy Owen, Ora Owen, Vernon Stokes, Robert 
Murray, Cecil Waltman and Jesse Murray. Honorary pallbearers were the 
following members of U. C. V., of which the deceased was a member, M. T. 
Judge, James Powers, S. W. Morgan, D.C. Greer, Rev. M. P. H. Potts, M. W. 
McEvoy and R. A. Lambert.

Interment will be at Union Cemetery, Moss Point, Jackson County, Miss.

Additional Comments:
Obituary & Death Notices of David Stokes [died April 17 1930] and Mary 
Frances (Pendarvis) Lewis Stokes [died January 3, 1944], sent to me by Roger 
Mathieu, researching Stokes/Pendarvis. His email: OScwolvesfan@aol.com 
From Roger's notes:) Mr. Stokes is buried next to his first wife Nancy 
Caroline Barrow, Union Cementry. They married Feb 11, 1866 in Mobile, 
Alabama; died August 31, 1894. Nancy died after being throw from a buggy. 
Children of Nancy and David Stokes: David, Emily, Laura, Mahala and Winnie 
Stokes.

Second wife: Mrs. Mary (Pendarvis) Lewis Stokes, married July 22, 1896, in Moss 
Point, Jackson County, MS, moving on to Mobile County. Children of Mary Frances 
Pendarvis Stokes: Anne, Vivian and Ben Stokes. Buried Howell Cemetery, George 
County, MS.

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