This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coker/Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BVJ.2ACIB/976 Message Board Post: Looking for infomation on Lenard Ferguson Coker Born 24 April 1820 in Alabama. Was in Texas Dec. 5th, 1866 (possibly earlier) because he married Rebecca Jane Smith Born 9 Oct. 1843 Alabama. They were married in Polk County Texas(Livingston). It has been said that Rebecca was Indian . Her mother's name was Elizabeth Smith. Lenard Ferguson is burried in Polk Co.Tx. If anyone has any info please contact me @ ([email protected]) Thanks

I found a Coker story in the book Ozark Pioneers their Trials and Triumphs by Bob Hinds printed 1999 by Bob Hinds. I purchased the book in a truck stop in Springfield, Missouri. The book concerns the history of the Hutton Valley, Missouri area, which is in the south central part of Missouri. It includes material from many sources mentioning many families, but it is not indexed. It also has genealogy of the following families: Smith, Gulley, Hood, Hinds, Ogle, Bryan, Godsy, Stringer, and Alsup. The Coker story is titled "Off The Cliff" and is an account from "Col. Monks," who I take to be William Monks, who was in the Union Army during the Civil War. The story is in the section of the book relating to the West Plains area of Missouri. Notes in "The White River Chronicles of S.C. Turnbo" mention that William Monks wrote a history of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas and this story may be copied from that work. The story tells of the "Cokers and Hogans who had been intimate friends." One day there came trouble between Coker and one of his brothers in law and Hogan and Coker went to the brother in laws house. It ends up with the Cokers chasing Hogan onto a bluff and over it into the White River. No first names are given but it does say "Coker, being a cousin of the Indian Cokers." If you want to the complete story sent to you privately I will do so.