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Mattie Stokes - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From The Monroe Morning World (LA), Saturday, January 24, 1959

TALLULAH (Special) - Mrs. Mattie Stokes, 79, mother of a West Monroe resident died in a Vicksburg 
hospital yesterday morning after an illness of several weeks.

Her home was in Oak Grove but she was presently living with a daughter, Mrs. I. C. Byrd, in Vicksburg.

A native of Arkansas, she had lived in Louisiana 32 years and was a resident of Tallulah for 15 years.

She was a member of the Baptist Church.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, in the Crothers Funeral Home chapel in Tallulah, with 
the Reverend Stewart officiating, and burial will be in Silver Cross Cemetery.

Mrs. Stokes is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Mamie Watson and Mrs. I. A. Craddock, both of Modesto, 
Calif., Mrs. Byrd of Vicksburg, and Mrs. F. M. McCready of West Monroe; three sons, J. B. Stokes, Oak Grove, 
F. R. Stokes, Vicksburg, and C. L. Miller, Dallas, Tex., 19 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Bennie Byrd, Charles Byrd, Cliff Erwin, Albert Bedgood, Henry Jones, and Archie Morris.