Jackson County MsArchives Obituaries.....Stokes, David S. April 17, 1930
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Source: Roger Mathieu
STOKES- Dies Thursday morning, April 17 1930, at 9: 52 o-clock

DAVID SYLVANUS STOKES April 17 1930

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 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 and 
four daughter; 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 at Moss Point, Miss.



 
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, after being throw from a buggy. Children of 
Nancy and David Stokes: David, Emily, Laura, Mahala and Winnie Stokes.



(From Roger's notes:) 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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