This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coker, Shockley, Jones Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BVJ.2ACIB/766.768.771.3.1 Message Board Post: The Joseph Coker on p95 of the 1830 Franklin Co TN census is not a direct relative of the Cokers shown on p63. This Joseph was b. about 1799 in Laurens Co SC. Next to him is his brother James. The older male living with Joseph is another brother named John who arrived in Texas in 1836. John never married. Joseph and James show up in the 1840 Talladega AL census, p18. They and their families came on to Texas in about 1846. The parents of these three brothers are by tradition, John and Dicey Coker. This John apparently died before 1810 since Dicey is shown by name in the 1810 Laurens Co census with three younger males. There were several John Cokers in those years and they are hard to identify. It is possible that the Cokers on p63 and 95 descend from Joseph Coker and Mary Aldridge. These Cokers were all in the Laurens Co area in the late 1700's.