This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ncB.2ACE/1466.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Eleanor Stokes was the 5th sister of William Stokes. Amelia Ann (my ancestor) was the 1st sister of William Stokes. Eleanor Stokes married James Preston Appleby. on Dec. 3, 1845. They had one child - Julia Ann Caroline Appleby. - Born 1847. James Preston Appleby died in 1847. Eleanor Stokes Appleby then married Richard B. Spell. Eleanor died Jan. 4, 1852. Julia Ann Caroline Appleby died in August, 1875. I have the estate papers for Julia. Her heirs-at-law were Thomas M. Appleby, R. Hiram Appleby, Peter Stokes, William Stokes, Sarah Byrd, Eliza Tucker and Ann C. Ott. I wish I were a lawyer - I could make better sense of them. Eleanor Stokes is buried in the Stokes-Tucker Cemetery. Her marker reads: Eleanor Spell Wife of R. B. Spell and Daughter of Wms. and Ann Stokes Who departed this life Jany. 4, 1852 Aged 23 Years and 25 days Gail A. Cannon