When Sarah F. Stokes was born in 1860, in Kemper, Mississippi, United States, her father, Levin Stokes, was 46 and her mother, Amanda Jane Breckenridge, was 48. She lived in Mississippi, United States in 1870.
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Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): variant of Stoke with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. This name has been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
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