About: Missouri H. Stokes

Missouri H. Stokes (July 24, 1838 – November 27, 1910) was an American social reformer and writer in the temperance movement. While in charge of the Mission Day School in Atlanta, and very successful in that missionary field, found herself drawn into the crusade for temperance after it expanded into the South. In 1880, Stokes became a member of the Atlanta Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the first local Union organized in Georgia. In 1881, she became its secretary, and when the State WCTU was organized in 1883, she was appointed State Corresponding Secretary, holding both offices until her resignation in 1893. For years, she was the Georgia Special Correspondent of The Union Signal, and for various papers in her own State, she furnished temperance articles. Stokes was one of the