Frank Stokes (other)
Frank Stokes may refer to: * Frank Stokes (musician) (1888–1955), American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel * Frank Stokes (footballer) (1881–1945), English professional footballer * Frank Wilbert Stokes (1858–1955), American sketch artist and painter See also * Francis Stokes Francis Stokes is an People of the United States, American screenwriter and film director. Stokes is writer and director of the feature film ''Harold Buttleman, Daredevil Stuntman'' and the internet video serial ''God, Inc.''. ''Harold Buttlem ...

Frank Stokes (musician)
Frank Stokes (January 1, 1877 or 1888 – September 12, 1955) was an American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel, who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style. Biography Stokes was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, in the vicinity of Whitehaven, located two miles north of the Mississippi state line. There is uncertainty over his year of birth; his daughter and later sources reported 1888, but the researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc give 1877, the date on his World War I draft card. His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by his stepfather in Tutwiler, Mississippi. He learned to play the guitar as a youth in Tutwiler and, after 1895, in Hernando, Mississippi, which was the home of the guitarists Jim Jackson, Dan Sane, Elijah Avery (of Cannon's Jug Stompers), and Robert Wilkins. By the turn of the century, Stokes was working as a blacksmith, traveling 25 miles to Memphis on weekends to sing and play ...
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Frank Stokes (footballer)
Frank Stokes (7 June 1881 – 1945) was an English professional footballer who played as a full back. He made more than 250 appearances in the Football League playing for Burslem Port Vale and Small Heath / Birmingham between 1898 and 1910. In between these two spells, he spent 1901 to 1903 at Reading and helped the club to finish second in the Southern League in the 1902–03 season. He played in several England trials but was never selected. Career Burslem Port Vale Stokes was born in Burslem, Staffordshire. He joined Burslem Port Vale from local side Burslem Park in October 1898. He made his debut on 4 March 1899 in a 4–1 win over Luton Town at the Athletic Ground, and went on to play a further two Second Division games in the 1898–99 season. He became a first-team regular in the 1899–1900 campaign, featuring in 32 league and 10 cup games and missing just two league games all season long, he played more matches than any other Vale player. In the 1900–01 season, ...
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Frank Wilbert Stokes
Frank Wilbert Stokes, also known as Frank Stokes, Frank W. Stokes and F. W. Stokes
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Stokes entry (November 27, 1858 – 1955)
Cybermuse Beaux-Arts, Stokes entry was an American Sketch (drawing), sketch artist and painter who specialized in illustrations of and
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