William Henry Stokes

Birth Date

1809-06-07

Death Date

1874-02-09

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, merchant and saddler. New York, New York, native. Son of John Stokes and Christina Stokes. Married to Prudence Catherine Ward Stokes in Jefferson County, Kentucky on June 27, 1833. Father of Ellen Stokes Shippen, Mary Frances Stokes Marshall, Sarah Jane Stokes, Arthur Henry Stokes, Emma Prudence Stokes, Alice Catherine Stokes Harrison, Albert William Stokes. Merchant in Louisville in 1850. Owned two enslaved women in Louisville in 1850. Saddler in Louisville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville/District 3, Page: 274A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville/District 3, p. 818.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville/Ward 5, Page: 121.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville/Ward 5, p. 14.
Find A Grave, William Henry Stokes (1809-1874) Memorial #46636561, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46636561(accessed February 23, 2020).
_Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000817871, p. 158.

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