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| Directions: from Leonard take FM 272 NE 3 miles | |
| Marker #: 5147008938 | |
| Year Dedicated: 1980 | |
| Size, type: 18" x 28" | |
| Last reported condition: Good | |
| R. E. (Bob) Stokes Homestead - In 1895 R. E. (Bob) Stokes (1865-1944), his wife Ada, and their children migrated from Mississippi to Hickory Creek community in Fannin County. Stokes purchased this farm in 1901 and erected this house the following year. Nearby there was a log barn and a two-room workers' house.The family had ten children. Stokes served as trustee of the Bralley School and helped erect a new schoolhouse and Bethel Baptist Church building. Peddlers traveled dirt roads which Stokes helped maintain with a drag hitched to four mules. | |
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Decimal degrees: N 33.377535 W -96.200311
Degrees, minutes: N 33 22.652 W 096 12.019 UTM: Zone 14, Easting 760457, Northing 3696644 |
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