When Ellis Vetchel Stokes was born on 21 January 1893, in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, United States, his father, Pinkney Daniel Stokes, was 23 and his mother, Adella Josephine McDuffie, was 20. He married Ethel Adelle Askins on 19 August 1914, in Nacogdoches, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Shelby, Texas, United States for about 5 years and Nacogdoches, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 3 May 1974, in Nacogdoches, Province of Texas, Mexico, at the age of 81, and was buried in Timpson, Shelby, Texas, United States.
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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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