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Uriah G. Stokes, another prominent citizen of Hogan Township, Franklin County, was born in North Carolina April 5, 1823, and is the son of John and Jane (Gening) Stokes, both of whom died in Stewart County, Tenn., in 1835. They were married in North Carolina; afterward moved to East Tennessee, from there to Henry County of the same State, and still later to Stewart County, where they passed the remainder of their days. He was a farmer and shoemaker by occupation, and the mother was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Of their family of nine children, four now living, Uriah G. is the fourth child. After the death of his parents he was bound out to William Ethridge, of Stewart County, Tenn., and remained with him until twenty years of age, when he left him and came to Franklin County, Ark. He was married October 6, 1843, to Miss Rebecca Roy, daughter of Ephraim Roy, and a native of Tennessee. She died in Franklin County, Ark., in 1865, when about thirty years of age, without issue. After marriage he located at Mulberry and began working at the blacksmith trade, which he continued for some time. He then moved on White River, in Madison County, Ark., remained but a short time, and then returned to Franklin County, where he remained until the breaking out of the late war, when he moved to Pope County of the same State. Before the close of the war he came back to Mulberry, and enlisted in Gordon’s regiment, went to Missouri and worked at his trade. After the war he returned to Franklin County, and engaged in farming in connection with his shop, which he still continues. In 1866 Mr. Stokes married Mrs. Martha E. Brown, widow of B. P. Brown, and the daughter of W. C. Tann, born in Humphreys County, Tenn., about 1843. Mr. Stokes is a member of the Masonic fraternity, has been J. W., and is a Democrat in politics. He and Mrs. Stokes are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, of which his wife was also a member. He is the owner of 160 acres of good land, and is in comfortable circumstances. Mrs. Stokes was the mother of two sons by her marriage to B. P. Brown, William C. and J. P. B.; the latter died July 17, 1887, at the age of twenty-two years.