Hi, I would not doubt who you have as a great grandfather one thing i have learned with coker names is they name children after brothers and sisters it was a common english thing to do way back when. Though you all are talking arkansas relatives the same thing is going on with cokers in illinoise my lintage shows a isaac coker being the son of a claiborne coker whos father was dennis coker the isaac according to my records was a brother to a william coker. so it very possible that the two different name for great grandfathers can be different. which is very simular to mine there is two claiborne cokers and two dennis cokers so becareful you dont take wrong gt grandfather's. notice this example that their is more then one dennis or claibourne coker claybourn the older one of the sons also name one of his children isaac and one william i cant remember if it was sylvester or james wesley coker I dont have my notes in front of me because i have sent to kansas for a reunion. next wee! kend other wise i could show a pattern in the name of coker children. even though my line may not fall in with yours take care to watch same thing going on. even i am named after my father and my uncles are names after their uncles so in my family the names have followed closely to coker names. gary eugene coker example: joseph coker =====father son's ---- isaac abraham ======= sons-------- dennis clayborne jacob malachi claiborne coker ====children Mary Jane COKER b: 22 JUL 1822 in IN Edward Fayette COKER b: 6 FEB 1825 in IL Bernetta COKER b: 10 APR 1827 in IL Dennis COKER b: 9 APR 1829 in IL Thomas COKER b: 21 FEB 1831 in IL Sylvester COKER b: 5 JUN 1834 in IL Catherine COKER b: 30 OCT 1836 in IL Richard Preston COKER b: 9 MAY 1839 in IL James Wesley COKER b: 15 MAR 1842 Maria Emaline COKER b: 24 AUG 1845 in IL dennis coker brother to (claybourn coker) .Mary (Polly) COKER was born Abt 1800, and died 15 Aug 1880 in Fayette Co.,GA. iii.Claiborne COKER was born 14 Mar 1802 in Elbert Co.,GA, and died 12 Sep 1880 in Morgan Co,IL. iv.Cloey COKER. v.Elizabeth COKER. vi.Martha (Patsy) COKER. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 9:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Coker] Re: William Iasac Coker - ARK. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BVJ.2ACIB/838.1 Message Board Post: Hello William I am your William I Coker's brother Thomas' great greaddaughter. Did you say William's death cert. listed his father as John Henry Coker? My grandfather Thomas delayed birth Cert. says their father was Isaac P. Coker mother Elizabeth Henderson (C.L. Henderson is what her family says and C. L Coker is on her tombstone next to I. P. Coker (Isaac P. COker in Boles Ark. Buffalo Cem.) I have been in contact with a memeber of the Roseberry family and also the Henderson family. Is there anyway you can scan the death cert. and email it to me this is very confusing on the name, I have several older generation of Coker members that swear his name was Isaac and went by "Ike" also as does the member of Henderson line. Hope we can get this confusion cleared also Clifford no longer lives in OKC he moved to where his daughter is living . I've spoken to him on phone but as he stated "he is old and his memory isnt good". He did remember my grandfather Elvin Isaac COker son! of Thomas (your Williams brother) but he did not remember much. ==== COKER Mailing List ==== Coker Querie Board http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/FamilyAssoc/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=1237Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com