STOKES, William, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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William Stokes, Baton Rouge, is one of the successful small planters of
East Baton Rouge parish, and although his property only comprises
thirty-seven acres of land it is exceedingly fertile and well tilled, and
consequently yields a larger annual income than many larger tracts.  Mr.
Stokes was born in East Baton Rouge parish in 1844, and there received his
education, leaving school to enter the confederate army.  He enlisted in
Company B, Ninth Louisiana infantry, under Capt. Thomas J. Buffington in
1862, and was in the battles of Baton Rouge, Port Hudson and all the
skirmishes of his company.  He was never wounded nor taken prisoner.  He
was cavalry forage master at the time of his surrender at Gainesville,
Ala., in 1865.  Returning to his home he engaged in farming with his
father, J. A. Stokes, with whom he remained for twenty years, or until the
latter's death, February 3, 1889.  The father was a successful planter, was
police juror for a number of years and a man held in high estimation by
all.  The mother of our subject died October 14, 1888.  William Stokes was
married March 20, 1867, to Miss Brunetta Foreman, a native of East Baton
Rouge and the daughter of the late John C. Foreman, of Louisiana.  They
have an interesting family of eight children--three sons and five
daughters.  Since the father's death Mr. Stokes has been planting for
himself and his principle crops are cotton and corn.  He raises a great
many cattle each year.  Mr. Stokes' parents were both devoted Catholics.
He was the only son.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 409.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.