Newspaper article about Papa Charles: 2/12/1901
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An article from the Stark County (Ohio) Democrat. Charles F. Stokey is fulfilling his duties as executor of his ex-mother-in-law's will.
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Here we learn that Papa Charles was the executor for the will of Mama Margaret's mother either in the middle of or just after the divorce of Papa Charles and Mama Margaret. It must have been so very awkward!
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PROF. STOKEY IN TOWN
He Came to Look After an Estate - Improved in Health.
Prof. Charles F. Stokey, who is now located near Freeburg, was in the city Saturday, on business. Mr. Stokey has just been appointed executor of the last will and testament of Mrs. Jane Provines, who died in West Ninth street, December 17, 1900. Mrs. Provines was Mr. Stokey's moth-in-law. By request, in the will, no bond is required of Mr. Stokey. The will was made October 8, 1897. Mr. Stokey is improving in health and many old friends were glad to greet him during his stay in the city.
He Came to Look After an Estate - Improved in Health.
Prof. Charles F. Stokey, who is now located near Freeburg, was in the city Saturday, on business. Mr. Stokey has just been appointed executor of the last will and testament of Mrs. Jane Provines, who died in West Ninth street, December 17, 1900. Mrs. Provines was Mr. Stokey's moth-in-law. By request, in the will, no bond is required of Mr. Stokey. The will was made October 8, 1897. Mr. Stokey is improving in health and many old friends were glad to greet him during his stay in the city.
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The Stark County Democrat inflated this article with unnecessary information, which makes it helpful a century later.
Prof. Charles F. Stokey, who is now located near Freeburg, was in the city Saturday, on business.
Freeburg, Ohio, is about a dozen miles east of Canton. So Papa Charles didn't move very far. He may still have been there in 1903 - see his lack of appearance in:
1903 CANTON CITY DIRECTORY: THE STOKEY ENTRIES
I was surprised to learn that Grandma Provines named Papa Charles as her executor in 1897. This would have been in the middle of the worst five years of Papa Charles's abuse of Mama Margaret, who was (obviously) Grandma Provines's daughter.
Grandma Provines had several sons and sons-in-law, but she chose this particular son-in-law as her executor. I think the Provineses tended to be less well-educated than the Stokeys, so that may have been part of her reasoning, but I'm also wondering if Mama Margaret, in her aversion to discussing unpleasantness, had refrained from talking to her aged mother about her husband's abuse at the time that the will was made.
The divorce petition was filed in the last year of Grandma Provines's life, when health issues may have been taking over. Papa Charles recorded in his family record that she died of acute indigestion:
I don't know how long that would have been going on.
Prof. Charles F. Stokey, who is now located near Freeburg, was in the city Saturday, on business.
Freeburg, Ohio, is about a dozen miles east of Canton. So Papa Charles didn't move very far. He may still have been there in 1903 - see his lack of appearance in:
1903 CANTON CITY DIRECTORY: THE STOKEY ENTRIES
I was surprised to learn that Grandma Provines named Papa Charles as her executor in 1897. This would have been in the middle of the worst five years of Papa Charles's abuse of Mama Margaret, who was (obviously) Grandma Provines's daughter.
Grandma Provines had several sons and sons-in-law, but she chose this particular son-in-law as her executor. I think the Provineses tended to be less well-educated than the Stokeys, so that may have been part of her reasoning, but I'm also wondering if Mama Margaret, in her aversion to discussing unpleasantness, had refrained from talking to her aged mother about her husband's abuse at the time that the will was made.
The divorce petition was filed in the last year of Grandma Provines's life, when health issues may have been taking over. Papa Charles recorded in his family record that she died of acute indigestion:
I don't know how long that would have been going on.
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