Father: Henry William Stokes
b. Jan. 4, 1797 Virginia,
d. 20 Oct, 1878 Callaway County, Missouri
Mother: Eliza Bailey
b. 1824 Houston, Hailfax, Virginia,
d. 1907 Callaway County, Missouri
(Family lore is that Eliza was Cherokee)
Henry and Eliza were married in 1839.
This was Henry's 2nd marriage.

Obituary -NATIVE OF CALLAWAY DIES AT AGE OF 90.
Mrs. Harlan's Father One Of First White Men To Settle In Callaway.
Girard, Kansas, February 10;
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Mrs. Elizabeth Catherine Harlan, native of Callaway County, Missouri, and grandmother of Frank O'Brien, Associated Press foreign correspondent at Rome.

Mrs. Harlan, 90, died Saturday at the home of her son, J.H. Harlan of Girard. Her father was one of the first two white men to settle in Callaway County.

Herself, one of 28 brothers and sisters, Mrs. Harlan was the mother of 11 children, nine of who survive. Other survivors include two sisters, twenty-eight grandchildren, forty-seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services at the Union Hill Babtist Church in Holts Summit at 2pm tomorrow will be conducted by her nephew, Reverend Grover Greenway of Bowling Green, Missouri.
Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Nathan Hunt Harlan and Elizabeth Catherine Stokes were married about 1875.
Children:
1-Maud Harlan (1876-)
2-George Hubert Harlan (1877-1961)
...m. Nov 2, 1898 Cole County, Missouri
.....Mary Jane Rhodes (1875-1968)
3-Ethel Charlotte Harlan (1880-1968)
...m.Nov 21, 1904 Jackson County, Missouri
.....James Emmett Lawrence (1884-1962)
4-Anna Boone Harlan (1880-)
5-Ive Harlan (1884-)
6-Slater Harlan (1886-)
7-Bessie Harlan (1887-)
8-Hershel Pollard Harlan (1889-)
9-Jabez Harlan (1895-1973)
...m. Myrtle Webster (1889-1987)
10-Lanty Harlan (1898-)