Barb (Mauldin) Stokes has first hand information. Her husband's grandmother knew her personally, visiting her many times.
Sources
"United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNT5-34F : 2 February 2021), Vera Staker in entry for Wallace Staker, Beat 4, Union, Mississippi, United States, 1920.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9M2-ZKH : accessed 16 July 2023), Vera Stakes in household of Wallace M Stakes, Beat 4, Union, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 12A, line 7, family 239, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1169; FHL microfilm 2,340,904.
"United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:VB3D-Y96 : Wed Jun 21 16:37:58 UTC 2023), Entry for Walace M Stokes and Vera Stoker, Beat 4, Union, Mississippi, United States, 1940.
"United States 1950 Census", database, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:6FMQ-DM7F : Tue Jul 11 09:16:56 UTC 2023), Entry for Wallace M Stokes and Vera W Stokes, New Albany, Union, Mississippi, United States, 6 April 1950.
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JGH8-ZNY : 11 January 2021), Vera Stokes, Sep 1985; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Vera by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Vera: