Sophia Stocks was the daughter of James and Sarah Causey Stocks and sister of Liesa Laura Stocks, Bettie D. Stocks Williams, Pattie Ann Stocks Hardee and Susan V. Stocks Smith.
Her death in Swift Creek was caused by bronchopneumonia as a result of influenza. Her death certificate lists Feb 14, 1933 as date of actual death.
She did not marry Benjamin Franklin Tyson, son of Allen Tyson , Jr. (abt 1809-abt 1843) & Mary Jane Brooks (30 Jun 1818-15 Sep 1904). Born in Nov 1843 in Pitt, North Carolina. Benjamin Franklin died in Pitt, North Carolina, abt 1924; he was 80. Sophia Stocks named Benjamin F. Tyson of Pitt County as the father of her child in a Bastardy Bond dated January 1868. He was ordered to be brought to the court to answer the charges but the sheriff wrote that he was not found when they went to look for him and he was said to be in Beaufort County. He appears on the 1870 census in Pitt County married to Philia Stokes within the year and living with her parents Hardee and Laney Adams Stokes. He eventually moves to Chicod by the 1900 census and lives there for the rest of his life. Benjamin applied to the Home for the Disabled, a place for veterans to stay, under the Civil War Pension Act of 1901 for his service in the Confederate Army.
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Mrs. Sophia Stocks Dies at Home Daily Reflector, Thurs., Feb. 16, 1933
Mrs. Sophia STOCKS, 87, died at her home in Swift Creek Township Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock following illness often days from pneumonia.
Funeral services were conducted from her late home yesterday afternoon by Elder W. H. LAUGHINGHOUSE and burial followed in the family burying ground near the home.
The deceased is survived by a son, J. C. STOCKS; a sister, Laura STOCKS; five grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. STOCKS was a native of the Swift Creek community and died in the home in which she was born. She was one of the oldest members of the Free Will Baptist Church at Black Jack and manifested much work in the progress of the denomination prior to her illness. She joined the church seventy years ago. She was of a lovable Christian character and was held in high esteem by a wide circle of friends who received news of her death with great sorrow.
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Her death in Swift Creek was caused by bronchopneumonia as a result of influenza. Her death certificate lists Feb 14, 1933 as date of actual death.
She did not marry Benjamin Franklin Tyson, son of Allen Tyson , Jr. (abt 1809-abt 1843) & Mary Jane Brooks (30 Jun 1818-15 Sep 1904). Born in Nov 1843 in Pitt, North Carolina. Benjamin Franklin died in Pitt, North Carolina, abt 1924; he was 80. Sophia Stocks named Benjamin F. Tyson of Pitt County as the father of her child in a Bastardy Bond dated January 1868. He was ordered to be brought to the court to answer the charges but the sheriff wrote that he was not found when they went to look for him and he was said to be in Beaufort County. He appears on the 1870 census in Pitt County married to Philia Stokes within the year and living with her parents Hardee and Laney Adams Stokes. He eventually moves to Chicod by the 1900 census and lives there for the rest of his life. Benjamin applied to the Home for the Disabled, a place for veterans to stay, under the Civil War Pension Act of 1901 for his service in the Confederate Army.
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Mrs. Sophia Stocks Dies at Home Daily Reflector, Thurs., Feb. 16, 1933
Mrs. Sophia STOCKS, 87, died at her home in Swift Creek Township Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock following illness often days from pneumonia.
Funeral services were conducted from her late home yesterday afternoon by Elder W. H. LAUGHINGHOUSE and burial followed in the family burying ground near the home.
The deceased is survived by a son, J. C. STOCKS; a sister, Laura STOCKS; five grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. STOCKS was a native of the Swift Creek community and died in the home in which she was born. She was one of the oldest members of the Free Will Baptist Church at Black Jack and manifested much work in the progress of the denomination prior to her illness. She joined the church seventy years ago. She was of a lovable Christian character and was held in high esteem by a wide circle of friends who received news of her death with great sorrow.
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Sophia Stocks was the daughter of James and Sarah Causey Stocks and sister of Liesa Laura Stocks, Bettie D. Stocks Williams, Pattie Ann Stocks Hardee and Susan V. Stocks Smith.
Her death in Swift Creek was caused by bronchopneumonia as a result of influenza. Her death certificate lists Feb 14, 1933 as date of actual death.
She did not marry Benjamin Franklin Tyson, son of Allen Tyson , Jr. (abt 1809-abt 1843) & Mary Jane Brooks (30 Jun 1818-15 Sep 1904). Born in Nov 1843 in Pitt, North Carolina. Benjamin Franklin died in Pitt, North Carolina, abt 1924; he was 80. Sophia Stocks named Benjamin F. Tyson of Pitt County as the father of her child in a Bastardy Bond dated January 1868. He was ordered to be brought to the court to answer the charges but the sheriff wrote that he was not found when they went to look for him and he was said to be in Beaufort County. He appears on the 1870 census in Pitt County married to Philia Stokes within the year and living with her parents Hardee and Laney Adams Stokes. He eventually moves to Chicod by the 1900 census and lives there for the rest of his life. Benjamin applied to the Home for the Disabled, a place for veterans to stay, under the Civil War Pension Act of 1901 for his service in the Confederate Army.
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Mrs. Sophia Stocks Dies at Home Daily Reflector, Thurs., Feb. 16, 1933
Mrs. Sophia STOCKS, 87, died at her home in Swift Creek Township Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock following illness often days from pneumonia.
Funeral services were conducted from her late home yesterday afternoon by Elder W. H. LAUGHINGHOUSE and burial followed in the family burying ground near the home.
The deceased is survived by a son, J. C. STOCKS; a sister, Laura STOCKS; five grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. STOCKS was a native of the Swift Creek community and died in the home in which she was born. She was one of the oldest members of the Free Will Baptist Church at Black Jack and manifested much work in the progress of the denomination prior to her illness. She joined the church seventy years ago. She was of a lovable Christian character and was held in high esteem by a wide circle of friends who received news of her death with great sorrow.
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Her death in Swift Creek was caused by bronchopneumonia as a result of influenza. Her death certificate lists Feb 14, 1933 as date of actual death.
She did not marry Benjamin Franklin Tyson, son of Allen Tyson , Jr. (abt 1809-abt 1843) & Mary Jane Brooks (30 Jun 1818-15 Sep 1904). Born in Nov 1843 in Pitt, North Carolina. Benjamin Franklin died in Pitt, North Carolina, abt 1924; he was 80. Sophia Stocks named Benjamin F. Tyson of Pitt County as the father of her child in a Bastardy Bond dated January 1868. He was ordered to be brought to the court to answer the charges but the sheriff wrote that he was not found when they went to look for him and he was said to be in Beaufort County. He appears on the 1870 census in Pitt County married to Philia Stokes within the year and living with her parents Hardee and Laney Adams Stokes. He eventually moves to Chicod by the 1900 census and lives there for the rest of his life. Benjamin applied to the Home for the Disabled, a place for veterans to stay, under the Civil War Pension Act of 1901 for his service in the Confederate Army.
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Mrs. Sophia Stocks Dies at Home Daily Reflector, Thurs., Feb. 16, 1933
Mrs. Sophia STOCKS, 87, died at her home in Swift Creek Township Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock following illness often days from pneumonia.
Funeral services were conducted from her late home yesterday afternoon by Elder W. H. LAUGHINGHOUSE and burial followed in the family burying ground near the home.
The deceased is survived by a son, J. C. STOCKS; a sister, Laura STOCKS; five grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. STOCKS was a native of the Swift Creek community and died in the home in which she was born. She was one of the oldest members of the Free Will Baptist Church at Black Jack and manifested much work in the progress of the denomination prior to her illness. She joined the church seventy years ago. She was of a lovable Christian character and was held in high esteem by a wide circle of friends who received news of her death with great sorrow.
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