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- ↑ "Memory Hold the Door". University of South Carolina. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ↑ "Chief Justice T.H. Stukes Dies In Charleston Hospital" (PDF). Charlotte Observer. Charlotte, North Carolina. February 21, 1961. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
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