When Coleman J. Stokes was born about 1839, in South Carolina, United States, his father, John M "WG" Stokes, was 27 and his mother, Sarah or Sally Holcomb, was 22. He lived in Gilmer, Georgia, United States for about 10 years.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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