shirley this is off of ancestrytree.com dont know if you have read any their but here is what another person put of james wesley coker ID: I130 Name: James Wesley COKER Sex: M Birth: 15 MAR 1842 in Jacksonville, Morgan Co., IL Death: 27 AUG 1931 in Republic, Greene Co., MO Note: James Wesley Coker was one of ten children born to Claybourne Coker and Elizabeth Hale. He was born in Morgan County, IL, Mar 15, 1842. He was reared on a farm and he married Maryu Elvira Robertson on February 21, 1862, in Jacksonville, IL, by a justice of the peace. Record of marriage is in Morgan County, IL. He was nearly 20 years of age and she was nearly 19. August 7, 1862, he volunteered for service in the Union Army with Regiment 101, Illinois Infantry. Private Company K Volunteers, where he fought until the end of the Civil War in 1865. He was with General Sherman in his "March from Atlanta to the Sea," which included the siege of Chattanooga. General Sherman's men carried supplies from Bridgeport, Alabama, to Chatanooga during the siege in the fall and winter of 1863-64, and James Wesley Coker was hospitalized both at Bridgeport and Chattanooga that winter and next spring, off and on, so he must have become ill due to exposure during that time. During the period of hospitalization in Chattanooga he became acquainted with a Confederate soldier named Coker, which mujst have been James Coker of the Coker clan in South Carolina, son of Caleb and Hannah Coker of Darlinton County, South Carolina. In Simpson's book, "The Cokers of Carolina," report is made of this man's injuries, and hospitalization as a prisoner of the Federal Army; his mother, Hannah, secured permission to be with him and nurse him through his hospitalization. A brother of this Coker was killed in his first battle, and another brother was injured, but recoverd. The Carolina James Coker was wounded in the Battle of Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga. Simpson ("The Cokers of Carolina") reports that around 1800 some of the South Carolina Cokers migrated to Alabama and Georgia, but does not give their names; we believe they were the immediate ancestors of Claybourne Coker, father of our James Wesley Coker, but do not have the names of Claybourne's parents. We know Claybourne had a brother Dennis Coker, but have no further record of him. Change Date: 7 NOV 1993 Father: Claybourne COKER b: 14 MAR 1802 in Washington Co., GA Mother: Elizabeth "Betsy" HALE b: 20 AUG 1804 in Mercer Co., KY Marriage 1 Mary Elvira ROBERTSON b: 22 JUL 1842 in NC Married: 21 FEB 1862 in Jacksonville, Morgan Co., IL Children Ulysses Grant COKER b: 13 MAR 1866 in Morgan Co, near Jacksonville, IL Claybourne Newton COKER b: 5 APR 1868 in Jacksonville, IL Orville Scott COKER b: 25 OCT 1871 Mary Elizabeth COKER b: 6 MAY 1874 James Gilbert COKER b: 21 FEB 1877 Ocie May COKER b: 3 DEC 1881 in Milan, Sumner Co., KS ulysses grant coker though had kids in kansas and oklahoma but that is decendants to james wesley some were in cherokee strip from my understanding that weas on kansas oklahoma territory. also some where I saw where slyvester had son named james wesley coker was not uncommon to name one child after a brother. lord knows took me a while to make sure dennis coker claybournes brother was not the dennis coker i was searching lol. thing is what day was your james wesley coker born in because that can make big difference even i have a cousin named james not sure about middle name though have to search records if you going by an initial dont assume it stands for wesley could be a james william coker. I will search kansas census in hodgeman ness and pawnee county if i run into a james wesley their will tell you do know that their was other cokers in kansas territory way before my family so could be a group from them. here is url of where i found lot of info about illinoise cokers http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/index.html gary ----- Original Message ----- From: Shirley Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 7:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Coker] Re: James Wesley Coker Gary, Did any of your Cokers end up in Texas or Oklahoma? Thanks, Shirley ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:17 PM Subject: [Coker] Re: James Wesley Coker > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BVJ.2ACIB/982.1.1.1.1.2 > > Message Board Post: > > [email protected] please write here instead of wife email. > > > In regards to claybourne coker the grave sight is the > scott-magill cemetery NE1/4-SE1/4 section25 claybourn and elizabeth both are buried their as well as some other cokers. dennis coker his brother married to sallie or sarah (sallid) is buried in hebron cemetary. which is not really in jacksonville but townships but as these the suburb hehe.around it if you have that artical on claibourne coker being stabbed or know how to get it on web please let me know right now i am waiting on illinoise to send me claybourne cokers will. My great grandfather was also dennis coker claiborne son i think where folks get confused is back the phonetics where not copyrighted yet but were use alot heheh. claiborne and claybourne are the same person if you follow the census you will see that age coinsides with person. they say in jacksonville that their were three dennis cokers when i go thru census i only find two and their is 3 yes in one census but if you look at age you will see the younger dennis was a laborer for one of the farmer thus ma! > y have been at work one day for censuses and then at home next time when census was taken. also confusion of the dennis sarah thing because both woman either seem to use sarah except dennis brother wife seem to go by sallie or sarah sallie jones. the nephews wife went by sarah a. coker maiden name sarah a clanton of nc. also when 1850 census was done dennis and sarah were still on claybourne farm this shows xlaybourne being 55 or around their dennis son being 21 and his wife is definately older then him by 2 to 4 years. little clitch in age but we no records are only so acurate bought like my spelling. very poor at the moment. now to make this easy if you look at 1860 census for jacksonville precint census you will find dennis coker and wife sarah with some of kids listed. same with 1870 census but after that you will lose track of dennis the sone of claiborne thats because family went to kansas. there had been mass confusion over the dennis thing for some time but if ! > you go thru the census and look at age closely when claiborne was 55 or 53 dennis the brother was right same age only dennis i found in 1850 census younger was 20 or 21 years age claiborne cokers son. those looking for sarah a. coker dennis cokers wife she is buried in larned kansas NE section lot 5 also those looking for riley h. coker there is information at larned county court house kansas and for robert coker their is information in census in larned and hodgeman county census. hope this helps some folks. > > > respectfully > gary e.coker > > > > ==== COKER Mailing List ==== > Coker Message Archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/Coker/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ==== COKER Mailing List ==== http://www.egroups.com/group/Coker/ SUBSCRIBE: [email protected] ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237Get more from the Web. 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