Remnants of a grandmother

 Shoes and shawl that Ethel wore

It was a year after the passing of my Uncle William Clark Stokes, when in 2017, in honor of our Stokes relatives having a reunion in Homewood, Mississippi on this day, I displayed the remnants of my grandmother, Ethel Marie Wike Stokes, born Jan 28, 1899 in Lexington Co., SC and died Aug 1, 1937 in Homewood, Mississippi. My cousin Ethel Jeanne Bradford Rowland, the daughter of Esther Irene and Joe Parks Bradford, her mother my daddy’s sister, gave me the shoes, a shawl, leather gloves and her ponytail at our last years reunion. Esther and Earnest William were married on Dec 18, 1914 and had five children, Earnest Curtis, James Marzelle, Hazel Marie, Luther Ray, my father and Esther Irene, Jeanne's mother. My mother was the last link to this original Stokes family as Earnest remarried Bernice Beatrice Boykin 17 Feb 1939 and had William Clark, Jimmy Boykin, Billy Ferrell and Mary Carol, of which only Mary still survives. Ethel Marie's father, Jacob Wike was a Lutheran minister, my father and Billy Ferrell were Methodist ministers.