When Lottie Stokes was born in 1877, in Benning, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, her father, John Daniel Stokes, was 42 and her mother, Mary Frances Fox, was 32. She married Scott Joplin in 1909. After Scott Joplin's death in 1917, she married Walter Thomas on March 13, 1922, in Manhattan, New York City, New York. She lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1925 and Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1940. She died on March 14, 1954, at the age of 77.
Source: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LWJT-PB5/lottie-stokes-1877-1954; https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GMHH-TR9; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin, visited November 26, 2023
Note: During an interview, Lottie Stokes Joplin Thomas said of her marriage to Scott Joplin: "We were married in 1907, and we lived together as man and wife for about ten years until he died." Source: Lottie Joplin: Scott's Widow Reminisces on the Ragtime King, by Kay C. Thompson, at http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/lottie.html, visited November 26, 2023
Source: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LWJT-PB5/lottie-stokes-1877-1954; https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GMHH-TR9; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin, visited November 26, 2023
Note: During an interview, Lottie Stokes Joplin Thomas said of her marriage to Scott Joplin: "We were married in 1907, and we lived together as man and wife for about ten years until he died." Source: Lottie Joplin: Scott's Widow Reminisces on the Ragtime King, by Kay C. Thompson, at http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/lottie.html, visited November 26, 2023
When Lottie Stokes was born in 1877, in Benning, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, her father, John Daniel Stokes, was 42 and her mother, Mary Frances Fox, was 32. She married Scott Joplin in 1909. After Scott Joplin's death in 1917, she married Walter Thomas on March 13, 1922, in Manhattan, New York City, New York. She lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1925 and Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1940. She died on March 14, 1954, at the age of 77.
Source: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LWJT-PB5/lottie-stokes-1877-1954; https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GMHH-TR9; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin, visited November 26, 2023
Note: During an interview, Lottie Stokes Joplin Thomas said of her marriage to Scott Joplin: "We were married in 1907, and we lived together as man and wife for about ten years until he died." Source: Lottie Joplin: Scott's Widow Reminisces on the Ragtime King, by Kay C. Thompson, at http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/lottie.html, visited November 26, 2023
Source: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LWJT-PB5/lottie-stokes-1877-1954; https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GMHH-TR9; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin, visited November 26, 2023
Note: During an interview, Lottie Stokes Joplin Thomas said of her marriage to Scott Joplin: "We were married in 1907, and we lived together as man and wife for about ten years until he died." Source: Lottie Joplin: Scott's Widow Reminisces on the Ragtime King, by Kay C. Thompson, at http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/lottie.html, visited November 26, 2023
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