Biography of Uriah G. Stokes, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Uriah G. Stokes, another prominent citizen of Hogan Township, Franklin
County, was born in North Carolina April 5, 1823, and is the son of
John and Jane (Gening) Stokes, both of whom died in Stewart County,
Tenn., in 1835. They were married in North Carolina, afterward moved
to East Tennessee, from there to Henry County of the same State, and
still later to Stewart County, [p.1279] where they passed the
remainder of their days. He was a farmer and shoemaker by occupation,
and the mother was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Of their
family of nine children, four now living, Uriah G. is the fourth
child. After the death of his parents he was bound out to William
Ethridge, of Stewart County, Tenn., and remained with him until twenty
years of age, when he left him and came to Franklin County, Ark. He
was married October 6, 1843, to Miss Rebecca Roy, daughter of Ephraim
Roy, and a native of Tennessee. She died in Franklin County, Ark., in
1865, when about thirty years of age, without issue. After marriage he
located at Mulberry, and began working at the blacksmith trade, which
he continued for some time. He then moved on White River, in Madison
County, Ark., remained but a short time, and then returned to Franklin
County, where he remained until the breaking out of the late war, when
he moved to Pope County, of the same State. Before the close of the
war he came back to Mulberry, and enlisted in Gordon's regiment, went
to Missouri and worked at his trade. After the war he returned to
Franklin County, and engaged in farming in connection with his shop,
which he still continues. In 1866 Mr. Stokes married Mrs. Martha E.
Brown, widow of B. P. Brown, and the daughter of W. C. Tann, born in
Humphreys County, Tenn., about 1843. Mr. Stokes is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, has been J. W., and is a Democrat in politics. He
and Mrs. Stokes are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, of
which his wife was also a member. He is the owner of 160 acres of good
land, and is in comfortable circumstances. Mrs. Stokes was the mother
of two sons by her marriage to B. P. Brown, William C. and J. B. P.;
the latter died July 17, 1887, at the age of twenty-two years.