STOKES, Sarah Jane 1841-1924

STOKES, MANDER, CAYTON, PELTON, THOMAS, WEST, MORSE

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 8/23/2013 at 23:37:47

[Waterloo Evening Courier, Monday, July 14, 1924]

Services for Mrs. Charles Stokes, who died Saturday morning at Freeport, Illinois, from heart disease, with which she was stricken a few hours after her journey there from Waterloo, were conducted at 2:30 p.m. today at Grace M. E. church. Rev. C. W. Harrop, pastor of Linden M. E. Church, officiated. Burial was in Fairview.

Sarah Jane Mander was born September 9, 1841, in Ohio, and six years later her parents moved to Beloit, Wisconsin, where she was married April 3, 1859, to Charles Stokes. The husband and three of their six children - Charles, Lloyd and Mrs. Emma Pelton are deceased.

Mrs. Stokes and her husband came to Waterloo in 1893. She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Stokes was a veteran of the Civil War and his wife was affiliated with Lincoln Circle and Ladies of the G. A. R. She also was enrolled as a member of the Women's Christian Temperance union.

Two sons, Frank, Oregon, and Elmer, Cedar Falls, and one daughter, Mrs. Blanche Thomas, Cedar Falls survive. There are also 11 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Myron West, Beloit, Wisconsin, and a brother, George Mander, Los Angeles, California.

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[Waterloo Semi Weekly Courier, Friday, April 8, 1910, Waterloo, Iowa]

CELEBRATED GOLDEN WEDDING.

Very few of us will be able to say that we have celebrated our golden wedding but this happiness was accorded to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stokes of this city, who on Sunday at their home on Logan Avenue, honored the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. That even occurred on April 3, 1860 at Beloit, Wisconsin, the bride's maiden name being Sarah Cayton*.

This was at the time of the gold fever in California to which the young husband soon went. Returning during the war he enlisted in the 42nd regiment Co. H. of the Wisconsin Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. Until 1876, Mr. and Mrs. Stokes resided in Wisconsin, but in that year, they came to Iowa and have resided here ever since.

Of the six children born to them, Charles, the oldest, died at the age of 20 and Myron Lloyd, the youngest, at the age of two years. Besides these are: Frank Henry Stokes of Montana; Mrs. Emma Pelton of Waterloo; Elmer Edson Stokes of Cedar Falls; and Mrs. Blanche Thomas, who since the death of her husband, has lived with her parents, together with her daughter Uarda.

The gathering at the home on Sunday was very pleasant. Besides the children and grandchildren who spent the day there, many friends called in the afternoon to congratulate the bride and groom of fifty years ago and to wish them many returns of their wedding day anniversary. Many pretty gifts were left as reminders of the happy occasion.

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*The Illinois Death Index records Sarah's maiden name as Mander, with her parents' names recorded as James and Gabriella (Morse) Mander