Brief Life History of Elizabeth Wood
When Elizabeth Wood Stokes was born on 16 June 1852, in Grenada, Mississippi, United States, her father, John Creighton Stokes, was 41 and her mother, Cynthia Elizabeth Hall, was 21. She married Dr Henry Jonathan Ray on 7 May 1873, in Carrollton, Carroll, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Grenada, Grenada, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years and Beat 1, Grenada, Mississippi, United States in 1940. She died on 9 March 1949, in Grenada, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Grenada, Grenada, Mississippi, United States.
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Sources (12)
- Mrs T H Moore, "United States Census, 1940"
- Bettie Stokes, "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911"
- Bettie Ray Moore, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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