[S1182] Amanda Stokes, Amanda Stokes, (My great grandmother was Bessie Booth. She married Claude Ellis and they had 5 children, 4 girls and 1 boy. The girls were Olivia Ellis Edwards, Virginia Ellis Fasion (son is atty C. B. Faison), my grandmother, Elizabeth (aka Tissie) married Horace hatch via elopement. Their children are Betty Thompson and my mother Edith Stokes who was married to Donald Stokes, atty practicing in hopewell va. I was born in Petersburg va on 2/19/69.
I visited the farm in spring grove regularly as a child.
Attached are photos of Bessie including my granny.) (Reliability: 3).