Richard S. Stokes
Joined Confederate Army, as a private, Aug. 7, 1861; was promoted to 1st Lt., Co. I, 8th Infantry, Miss. Regiment, on Aug. 29, 1864. Came to Texas in 1868, settled in Lampasas County as a rancher and farmer; married Elizabeth Rawson, and had seven children. On July 19, 1911, at Chadwick's Mill, on the Colorado River, at age 73, Stokes rescued Lillie B. Evetts, Eva Foster, and R. Ashley Greaves from drowning. For the feat, he received a Carnegie Hero Medal. Recorded - 1973
31.3051° N, 98.4192° W
Where to Find It
Long Cove Cemetery, plot G5 - 69. From Lometa, N 7 mi. on FM 2942, then W 0.6 mi. on CR 2664.
Nearby Markers
- <0.1 mi N Long Cove Cemetery Lometa
- <0.1 mi NW Long Cove Baptist Church Lometa
- 4.7 mi N Pleasant Grove Cemetery Pleasant Grove
- 4.8 mi S Site of Lometa Reservoir Lometa
- 5.9 mi S Phantom Hill Road Lometa
- 6.2 mi S Lometa Lometa