Sylvester Daniel NOKES

                   1860 census:   Lee, Brown, Illinois
1398, 1336
Sylvester Nokes, 24, male, farmer, Illinois
Mrs. June           , 22, female, Illinois
Martha                , 5, female, Illinois
Almira                 , 2, female, Illinois

1880 census:
   Sylvester NOKES   Self   M   Male   W   45   NY   Farmer & Fruit Grower   VT   VT
   Jane NOKES   Wife   M   Female   W   43   IL   Keeping House   IL   KY
   Carrie NOKES   Dau   S   Female   W   13   IL      NY   IL
   Oscar NOKES   Son   S   Male   W   11   IL   At School   NY   IL
   Birdie NOKES   Dau   S   Female   W   5   IL      NY   IL
next family:
Julia RAYMOND   Self   W   Female   W   38   IL      IL   KY
   Nettie RAYMOND   Dau   S   Female   W   16   IL      NY   IL
   Ida RAYMOND   Dau   S   Female   W   10   IL   At School   NY   IL
Source Information:
    Census Place Lee, Brown, Illinois   FHL#  1254176
    NA Film Number   T9-0176   Page Number   569B


History of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, p. 360-361, Capt. S.D. Nokes
notes:
On the 27th of July, 1854, he married Anna Jane Dodd, who was born in Adams County.
Union army:  enlisted in the 119 regiment Illinois volunteers, companies E and D, which were raised in Brown county.  2nd lieutenant, commissioned as Captain, 18th Sep 1864
discharged at Springfield, 9 September
Farming, Lee township
9 children, 6 living:  Elmira, Mary, Carrie, Oscar, Birdie, and Grant.

Biographical review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of pioneers and leading citizens. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co., 1892, 631 pgs.
Captain Sylvester D. Nokes was born in Franklin County, New York, February 11, 1835.  His father was John Nokes, born March 20, 1809, and his grandfather was Jacob Nokes, of New England.  He was a farmer who died at an advanced age in Brown county, Illinois, and his wife's name was Mary __, who bore him seven children.  She died in Brown county about ten years after her husband, aged eighty years.  John Nokes came West from New York in 1842, and settled in Brown county on 160 acres of new land, it being part of his present farm.  He brought his wife and six children with him in a covered wagon.  He rented for several years and then built a hewed-log house.  Much of his land was prairie of the most productive kind.  He resided on this farm about twenty years.
       The Captain was a volunteer in the One Hundred and Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, Company E, enlisting August 9, 1862.  He went as Second Lieutenant, and was mustered out as Captain, to which post he was promoted in 1864, in the place of Captain Munford, resigned.  He was absent from his command on account of a gunshot wound in the thigh received on the Red River.  He was all through that campaign, was in the two day's fight before Nashville, Tennessee, and in the charge on Fort Blakely.  He has sixty acres of orchard land, apples, peaches, and grapes.  He keeps ten to twelve horses, fifteen to twenty head of cattle and fattens about fifty hogs per year.  His orchards return him the best interest on his money.  He built their fine brick farm house in 1881.  The schooling of the Captain is limited, but he is well informed and a great reader.  He was married about the age of twenty, to Anna J. Dodd who was nearly sixteen.  She was the daughter of William and Julia Ann Richardson Dodd.  Her father was of Green County, Illinois, and her mother of Bradenburg, Kentucky.
       The living children of Captain and Mrs. Nokes are:  Mrs. Carrie Bradney, living in Missouri;  Mrs. Mary V. Wright, at home;  Oscar E., living at the Mounds; Birdie May, a young lady at home; Irwin Grant; and Jessie.
       The Captain has been a Republican, but now is an Alliance man.  He is justly proud of his war record.