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R. E. (Bob) Stokes Homestead

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Leonard, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 33° 22' 39.11486999988", -96° 12' 1.11890999988"
 
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    In 1895 R. E. (Bob) Stokes (1865-1944), his wife Ada, and their children migrated from Mississippi to Hickory Creek community in Fannin County. Stokes purchased this farm in 1901 and erected this house the following year. Nearby there was a log barn and a two-room workers' house.The family had ten children. Stokes served as trustee of the Bralley School and helped erect a new schoolhouse and Bethel Baptist Church building. Peddlers traveled dirt roads which Stokes helped maintain with a drag hitched to four mules.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

R. E. (Bob) Stokes Homestead Historical Marker Location Map, Leonard, Texas

 
   
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