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John D. Stokes

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John D. Stokes

Birth
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Death
2 Mar 1872 (aged 48–49)
Butte County, California, USA
Burial
Chico, Butte County, California, USA Add to Map
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Age 49 Yrs

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" ... She remained under her father's roof until her marriage, in 1870, to John Stokes. He was born in Schleswig, at Dusseldorf, and came to America in young manhood, and in an early day came across the plains to California with an ox team. The newly married couple took up farming two miles east of Cana, where they improved a fine ranch of one hundred sixty acres. Mr. Stokes died in 1872, aged forty-nine. They had one son, Isaac Stokes, who is now the owner of the original Stokes home ranch, given him by his mother ..." Biography of Katherine Schneider Letcher, Source: "History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 693-694, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
Age 49 Yrs

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" ... She remained under her father's roof until her marriage, in 1870, to John Stokes. He was born in Schleswig, at Dusseldorf, and came to America in young manhood, and in an early day came across the plains to California with an ox team. The newly married couple took up farming two miles east of Cana, where they improved a fine ranch of one hundred sixty acres. Mr. Stokes died in 1872, aged forty-nine. They had one son, Isaac Stokes, who is now the owner of the original Stokes home ranch, given him by his mother ..." Biography of Katherine Schneider Letcher, Source: "History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 693-694, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.


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