Saturday, June 22, 1985 Mercer, Pennsylvania
Visited one room Caldwell School and “school marm” May Beringer was charming. Then Historical Society and chapel and Cemetery in Mercer where four generations of Stokely’s buried. Benjamin Stokely moved there in 1982.
Lunch together at motel. Evening session mostly talking. Three distant emigrants represented- 1616 to Virginia later Delaware- 1775- Jeru Stokely to Pennsylvania and later Tennessee and that family founded Stokely Canning Company. Then about 1920 from near London came to Canada.
Got best acquainted with James Addison Stokely of Phoenix. He’s descended from Euclid- one of Benjamin’s 17 children.