Sumter-Marion County GaArchives Obituaries.....Stokes, Edgar J. December 1917 ************************************************ 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 historycam@wmconnect.com May 13, 2004, 3:29 pm The Butler Herald, December 27, 1917 The Butler Herald Thursday, December 27, 1917 Page One Edgar J. Stokes Mr. J.G. Stokes of this county, has the sympathy of hosts of friends on account of the death of his brother, Mr. E.J. Stokes, an account of whose death is related in the following dispatch: Americus, Ga. – Edgar J. Stokes formerly a prominent citizen of Americus, died at his home in Buena Vista after a lengthy illness. Paralysis was the immediate cause of his death. Besides his wife he is survived by one son, Henry J. Stokes, of Savannah, three daughters, Mrs. G.H. Sanborn, of Americus; Mrs. J.W. Lasha, of Detroit, Mich.; and Mrs. Davis Bragg, of Fitzgerald. H.D. Stokes, of Americus, is a brother of the deceased, as is also J.G. Stokes, of Butler. Three sisters, Mrs. J.W. McCrary, Mrs. Geo. R. Lowe, of Buena Vista and Mrs. E.J. Hart, of Ellaville, also survive. Funeral services and interment occurred in Buena Vista. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb