Marion County GaArchives Obituaries.....R.H. Stokes September 1911 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com January 18, 2004, 12:07 am The Butler Herald, September 19, 1911 The Butler Herald Tuesday, September 19, 1911 Page Three Mr. R.H. Stokes, Buena Vista Mr. J.G. Stokes, of this city, was summoned Thursday to Buena Vista to attend the burial service of his brother, Mr. R.H. Stokes, who was widely known and highly esteemed in Taylor County. The friends of Mr. Stokes were shocked and very much grieved upon learning of his death. The facts concerning his short illness and death is told in the following account appearing in the Marion County Patriot Friday: “Early Wednesday morning a telephone message announced that Mr. R.H. Stokes was seriously sick with something like cramp colic and requested his son to bring a physician as soon as possible. The family of Mr. Stokes wanted to be with him in his sickness and taking Dr. Drane with them in an automobile hurried to the turpentine still in the northwest part of the county, but when they arrived there they found him dead.” “The afternoon before he was talking over the telephone to his wife and seemed to be well, but after that it appears he took something like colic and a Negro man waited on him, giving him colic medicine. About midnight he became easy and dismissed the Negro who went to his cabin to rest. In the morning the Negro came to see about him and found him unconscious. The Negro then jumped on a horse and ran over to Judge Noell’s about a mile distant for help, but before Mr. Noell arrived he had expired.” This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb