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- http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~jowest/Research/CCBios2.htm
Olden STOKES, tanner, P. O. Forks, is a great-grandson of James STOKES who moved from Bucks County to the Bear Gap, Northumberland County (near the Montour County line), and where he owned all the property on what is now the grist-mill, and there died. His son, Joseph, came to Roaringcreek Township, this county, and was the first teacher and surveyor (making the original surveys) in that part of the county. He and wife, Mrs. Rebecca (LEE) STOKES, settled in that part of Roaringcreek which is now Locust Township. He died in Bucks County forty-five years ago, aged about seventy years. His wife died in Locust township. He had a numerous family, and his descendants are still to be found in the county. His son, James, the father of Olden, was born in 1791 and died in 1860. He followed carpenter work and cabinet-making during the summer, and taught school in the winter seasons, but in his latter years devoted himself exclusively to teaching. He was a member of the Society of Friends and a leading member in meeting, of which he was for years clerk. His tastes were literary, and he contributed considerably to papers and periodicals, and was also a poet of no mean order. His wife, Deborah, daughter of Mahlon HOAR, was born about the same year as her husband and died in 1861. Their children were Hampton, who died when a young man; James, in Minnesota; John C., who died in Scranton, Penn., in 1885, and Olden, our subject, is the second child, and was born August 3, 1826. He received such an education as the times afforded, and in 1844 began to learn the tanner's trade, at which he worked many years in Catawissa; thence to Berwick, and later to Black Creek, Luzerne County, where he remained four years. He then spent three years in Hollenback Township, same county. He then bought a tannery at Foundryville, in Briarcreek, which he operated fourteen years; then sold out and bought a property at Martzville, near Berwick, where he resided two years, when he exchanged it for the property he owns in this township, on Huntington Creek, where he resumed the tanning business. July 1, 1866, he married Eliza, daughter of Michael FORT, of Lehigh County, where she was born in 1827. They had two children, one of whom died in infancy, and Hannah Janie, born January 7, 1868, who lives with her parents. Mr. STOKES was born and reared among the Society of Friends, but his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle - 1887, Fishingcreek Township pg. 455)
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