George W. Stoke and Joanna Sullivan

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Husband George W. Stoke ¹

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            AKA: George W. Stokes 2
           Born: 22 Feb 1834 - Crawford Co, PA 1
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         Father: Jacob Stoke (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Hetrick (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1857 - Armstrong Co, PA 1

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Wife Joanna Sullivan ¹

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           Born:  - New York state
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         Father: John Sullivan (      -Aft 1898) 1
         Mother: Unknown (      -Abt 1897)

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Children

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1 M William J. Stoke ³

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2 M Henry Alexander Stoke ¹

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           Born: 2 Jun 1859 - near Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Flora E. Jackson (      -      ) 3
           Marr: Jul 1890 3

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3 M John Stoke ³

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4 M George W. Stoke, Jr. ³

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5 F Maggie Stoke ³

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6 F Julia Stoke ³

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General Notes: Husband - George W. Stoke

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Reynoldsville, Jefferson Co, PA

During the early days of the Civil War, in August, 1861, George W. Stoke enlisted in Company D, 103d P. V. I., having helped to recruit the company. He was mustered into service, September 25, 1861, and reached the front with the regiment, in March, 1862, serving under Gen. McClellan during the Peninsular campaign. He was promoted from the ranks to a lieutenancy, April 10, 1862, after the battle of Fair Oaks, taking command of a brigade, and on his return to the regiment, in November, 1863, he was made captain of Company B. He re-enlisted as a veteran, and with the regiment was captured at Plymouth, North Carolina, April 20, 1864, and was confined successively at Andersonville (GA), Charleston (SC), and Columbia (SC) prisons. He escaped twice, but, first time, was recaptured the fourth night when seventy-five miles away. The second time he escaped by bribing the guard, giving him a gold watch, valued at $100, to allow six prisoners to go through the dead line. Three of these, setting out for Sherman's army, were re-captured; Capt. Stoke and two others reached the Santee river, found a small boat chained to a tree, released it, and, after eleven days and nights, reached Santee Island. Two days later they were picked up by some soldiers from a Union gunboat, doing blockade duty near Georgetown, South Carolina. Reaching home Capt. Stoke rejoined his regiment at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, thirty days later, and afterward served as its adjutant to the close of the war. He was mustered out in July, 1865, having served about four years, nine months of which time he was prisoner of war. Capt. Stoke participated in every battle and skirmish in which the regiment was engaged, the list including (during the year 1862) the siege of Yorktown, Va., May 1; battle of Williamsburg, Va., May 5; Fair Oaks, Va., May 31; Chickahominy Swamps, Va., June 26; White Oak Swamps, June 26; Railroad Bridge, Va., June 29; Long Bridge, June 30; Jones Point, June 30; Charles City Cross Roads, July 1; Hamson Point, Va., July 2; Kingston, N. C., December 14; White Hall, December 16; Goldsboro, N. C., December 17. Also the three-days' siege and capture of Plymouth, N. C., April 20, 1864; besides skirmishes at Blackwater, Va., October 3, October 31, and December 2, 1861; Southwest Creek, N. C., July 7, 1863; and Foster Mills, N. C., July 27, 1863.

Capt. Stoke was later engaged in the oil business in Reynoldsville.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1184.

2 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 279.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1185.