Cousin Dale, Thanks for the information. Good to find a new family connection. My Uncle Fred T. Coker Jr. is living in Myrtle Beach, SC and has a ready memory about much of the family. Most of the material which I have came from him and my father. My Grandfather Fred T. Coker Sr. moved from somewhere around the Hebron-Cades community to Columbia before 1920. He raised his three sons in the Olympia Village community in Columbia. The connection I'm most interested in proving is the parentage of Whitley Coker Sr. Uncle Fred is confident he knows the connection, but I haven't seen any documents which establish it beyond doubt yet. I think this research may need to be done in North Carolina or Virginia. Someday I'll take the time and do the research. I want to add more Coker information on my web pages someday when I have spare time. If you have anything that might do well there, please send it my way. Especially any images of family members. Keep in touch, Steven J. Coker [email protected] http://www.wp.com/Coker/family.html http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2780 DALE 9to4 wrote: > > Since I wrote you, I have checked out your homepage.... you are quite a > handsome guy... I am also kin to the Budden line...I am kin to Mary Jane > Budden who married Christopher Turner Player... Their daughter Juleah Player > was married to Thomas Green who died in the Civil War... This is the Green > side I was talking about earlier. Thomas Green's father was James English > Green and he was married to Sarah W. Coker. We think that Sarah W. was the > daughter of Thomas Coker. Thomas was possibly from wilcox County, Alabama.. > > I also have an Aunt that was a Coker(Erline Coker Jones Corn) and her mother > was a Floyd. She is still living and seems to have all these names and places > in her memory that seems to be fantastic.( She has great stories about Puddin > Swamp) I wish I lived in Columbia so I could possibly check this out. My > sister I think is doing some research on the Coker side so Hopefully she > will. I remember my Aunt saying that her brother Clyde is doing some family > genealogy. I think her father was Whiteford and his father was Jones O. > Coker. > > Have you talked to Bo Watts... I think he also has information on the Coker > side... he is kin to me through 3 lines... Buddens, Jones, and Watts. > Anyway... now that I know that you are a cousin... I will try to keep in > touch..I love meeting new cousins. If I can be of any help living here in > Virginia.... let me know....DALE

There were serveral newspapers during that time frame. One I just was reading last week was the Sumter Watchman. There's an excellent article in 1866 regarding the Dingle's Mill event during the Civil War. The ones I have found have been the actual papers and on microfiche at the South Caroliniana Library of USC in COlumbia. I'm sure someone else will be able to give you more info. If not, contact the South Caroliniana. Damita On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Deborah Byrd wrote: > Hello I questions about the ealry newspapers of Sumter/Clarendon/Lee county area. Did the area have local papers from 1820-1880? What are the names of those papers? Are any collections of local newspaper in existence? Have any been microfilmed or transcribed? If there is a transcription project I am wiling to help if I can even though I live in Idaho. > > Thanks for the help > > Deborah Byrd > Hunting for sumter lines Byrd, Scott, Baker, Commander, Hickson > [email protected] > >

Dale, I have a LOT of information on the Coker family. Most of the information was collected by my Uncle Fred T. Coker Jr. and my father James F. Coker, deceased. The focus of their research was the Whitley Coker Sr. line. Whitley Coker Sr. came to Sumter District before 1790 and is shown on Mill's Atlas. Two of the main Coker lines in South Carolina are the Caleb Coker line (Hartsville Cokers) and the Whitley Coker line (Sumter District Cokers). Both of these two lines descended from Cokers who came from England to Virginia in the 1600's then spread into North Carolina and later into South Carolina. The oldest Whitley Coker line cemetary I've seen is in Puddin Swamp. My Uncle Fred T. Coker Jr. showed me the cemetary site about 15 or more years ago. Some of the tombstones had been destroyed but several were standing and legible. Cokers known to be buried at the Puddin Swamp cemetary include: William David Coker 3/06/1821 - 3/03/1900 wife Hazeltine 1/19/1833 - 3/16/1871 Margaret Coker 5/19/1856 - 3/15/1889 Henry Coker 5/15/1854 - 1/27/1867 John J. Coker 3/05/1860 - 2/14/1893 Robert J. Coker 10/07/1850 - 9/22/1855 James Myers "Moss" Coker Jr. 8/12/1857 - 11/24/1925 Joseph Cunningham Coker 9/05/1859 - 1/18/1889 Wonder if anyone has done anything since then to protect, preserve, or restor the cemetary site? Does anybody know? I would be glad to exchange information with other family members. Steven J. Coker [email protected] http://www.wp.com/Coker http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2780 DALE 9to4 wrote: > > Steve, > I am also kin to the Coker line from Sumter... I forwarded your > information to my sister in SC.. She is doing some research on that line and > lives in Turbeville, SC. She is not on the web yet but she hope to be soon. > She is working on the Green line.. My relative James English Green married a > Coker..so I think we are also kin to Whitley Coker.... I assume this makes us > cousins... would love t hear from you....DALE

Hello I questions about the ealry newspapers of Sumter/Clarendon/Lee county area. Did the area have local papers from 1820-1880? What are the names of those papers? Are any collections of local newspaper in existence? Have any been microfilmed or transcribed? If there is a transcription project I am wiling to help if I can even though I live in Idaho. Thanks for the help Deborah Byrd Hunting for sumter lines Byrd, Scott, Baker, Commander, Hickson [email protected]

The pages are there. Don't know why you didn't connect. I just tried and they connected for me. Maybe a problem with AOL (not unusual) or maybe there was a typo when you copied the URL. The following URLs will take you to my pages where you can access my genealogy postings. Try again, Steven James Coker [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ICQ: 1963971, Bachelor http://www.wp.com/Coker http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2780 http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/cokers http://members.tripod.com/~Coker/index.html http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/k/Steven-J-Coker DBaker3381 wrote: > > Steve, > > Is there a typo in the URL. I copied and pasted the URL and got an error > message. Had I typed the URL, I would have thought I made an error. Or is > this a link that is closed to aol members?

Steve Coker wrote: Jen, Thanks for the message. I'm always interested in gathering information about branches of the Coker family and would be glad to add more to my files at any time. >From the information I've seen, most of the Southern Coker lines, including my Cokers, came from England to Virginia in the 1600's. My ancestors moved from Virginia to North Hampton, NC and then to Sumter District South Carolina. You can view some of my Coker lineage information at http://www.wp.com/Coker/family.html on the web. My direct line is well documented back to Whitley Coker Sr. who moved from NC to Sumter District, South Carolina between 1781 and 1790. I'm lacking firm proof on the connection of Whitley to his parents. But we have some good ideas about what the connections were. Thanks, Steven J. Coker P. O. Box 359 Charleston, SC 29402 [email protected] http://www.wp.com/Coker http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2780 Andy Herron wrote: > > Hi Steve - > I've been on the Prather digest -but ran across some Coker genealogy and > wondered if it connected to you. Are your ancestors from the New England > area -in particular one Robert Coker b. 1606, came to Boston from England in > 1634? > If so, I have some information in an old compiled genealogy book by George > Towne. Let me know if there's any connection and I'll send you a copy of > what this says - > > Jen Herron

Thanks to Jackie Baker I have little bit more on my John BAKER. Is anyone tracing the HICKSON family with a daughter Ester Hickson age 51 in 1850 md to John BAKER age 71 in 1850? or a Salina HICKSON age 22 in 1850 md to James Madison BAKER age 36 in 1850? Also looking for information on the "Fulwood Claim", two of the John BAKER's children, AJ and John W. lost land in the claim. Thanks Deborah Byrd [email protected]

Hello everyone, I am hurrying this morning. Off to work in about 3 minutes. The Sumter County Genealogical Society has a new book available. It's the 1870 Census, indexed and everything. Nancy Hughes, a local member transcribed every little detail from the microfilm and had a book published. Cindy

Hello list, Well I recieved a message today from my server letting me know about bouncing e-mail (rootsweb always forwards the SCSumter ones to me). All of us on Farmers Telephone (Infoave) FTC-I.net had our mail bounce. Now the curious thing is that I was talking to my cousin Dee's husband Ken ([email protected]) last night about the e-mail not coming in or out yesterday but that we could get on the internet. That has happened quite a bit recently. Once when I contacted our ISP they admitted that they had had trouble with the e-mail. They told Dee the same thing. Then Ken has contacted then about it and they insisted that it's with his computer. (How come mine had the same problem across the county and I have a Mac and Ken has IBM ? Hmm) Anyway, we didn't get the mail that went out over the list yesterday. Goodness knows what else bounced back that folks sent to me. This morning I had 89 messages. That's because I didn't get to my mail yesterday afternoon. So, this is just to let the FTC and Infoave folks know that our mail bounced and maybe someone out there on our list not with those ISP's will send a copy to me and I will send it out over the list. Here is a bit of what I got and the next time that they tell Ken that it's his machine, he can show them the entire message. Ken, I will forward all of it to you. This is everyone who did not get their mail. Note all of the ftc ones and I bet that the Charleston and Orangeburg ones go via infoave too. [email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected] Deferred: Operation timed out with dev.infoave.net. 550 [email protected] Host unknown (Name server: hub.infoave.net.: host not found) Note the hub.infoav.net host not found. Cindy

I am searching information on Spann family. Russell James Spann, born 1860 or 1864, Sumter, South Carolina, father possibly James Russell Spann. Thanks in advance for your reply to [email protected]

Hi All, I'm looking for any information about John Kennedy and his wife, Cherry Roun(d)tree. I am told they are from the Pitt /Craven Co. areas of NC. John was born in 1760 and Cherry probably in 1763. They married in apprx 1784 in Craven Co. and moved to Sumter around 1803. John died there in 1832 and Cherry in 1840. Any info--not matter how trivial seeming--will be appreciated. Thanks much. Marcie F. Bowen-Astley

My husband has a Tabitha ([?]Hodge) YOUNG on his grandmother's- Grace Lee Jenkins'- side; Tab's daughter ?[Tabbitha Young] married ?IP[Isaac ]Davenport. If you know more about this family [Keziah Cockerill, Louisa Mariah (Stansell) Jenkins, Ann "Nancy" (Henderson) Jenkins, Jemima (Williams) Jenkins, Mary (?) Jenkins ,Martha Garner Jenkins, Ann (?) Jenkins, Clemency (?) Jenkins ]I'd love to hear from you... Diane in VA <[email protected]> You may like to contact the author of the Clement-Jenkins Family book; her e- mail address is [email protected]

Hello fellow Old Sumter District Researchers, Our numbers are growing. I saw at least 3 subscribe messages in my mail box, just today. (I receive CC of them and all of the bounces that don't make it through the robot.) Last night the disks at Rootsweb went into an overload. So if you don't see your message which you posted yesterday by the end of today then please resend it. It may have gone out to become "Lost in Cyberspace." Plus, the Digest was turned off while the disk problem was being resolved so if you got your digest in EMAIL mode it is because that is the way it was sent by Rootsweb to help with the backed up mail. (I don't think that a digest of our list went out yesterday. Maybe, I am on mailmode but there haven't been a lot of messages to create a digest recently. It does go out every 24 hours as digest if there is only one message anyway.) Anyway Brian (of Rootsweb) estimates the problem is over and by now all is back to normal. Happy researching, Cindy in Sumter

The Families which I am researching in the Sumter,Camden,Clarendon area are: China, O'Dell, McKelvain (McElvain) John China md. Agnes O'Dell; their daughter Nancy Ann md. Daniel DeKalb McElvain; their daughter Elizabeth Ann md. Theophilus Jordan Johnson.

Would like to know if anyone knows the children of the late Mary Harvin who was married to a Hodge the first time.Dian,Virginia and Raymond. I do not know if thay use the last name of Hodge or Harvin.any help would be apreciated, Thanks in advance. Adderss: Annette Hodge E-Mail : [email protected] 618 North Lake Dr. Salem, S.C. 29676

SLinAZ3 wrote: > > Can anyone tell me where to "look" for deeds that were done in the old county > of Craven? Look in the Charleston deed books for Craven County. Craven was just a geographical location without a court. The court was still in Charleston when the area was in Craven County. I have several that were "laid out to" David Williams, Catherine > Williams and Robert Williams about 1770. > > Did the term "laid out to" just mean "deeded to"? Also, does anyone know > where St. David's Parish and St. Mark's Parish would be "located" now? Here is a description of St. Mark's Parish From History of Sumter County by Dr. Anne King Gregorie pg. 24 "During the 1750's so many new settlers dame to live in the High Hills and adjacent country, that the region became of political importance. In 1757, therefore it was made into a new parish called St. Marks' with representation in the Commons House of Assembly. The line which separated St. Mark's from the Prince frederick's was an extension of the northwest line of Williamsburg Township to the Santee and the Pedee. St. Mark's embraced all the area between these rivers northward to the North Carolina line, and was the largest of the parishes." I have a map that shows the parishes. Prince Frederick (created 1734) looks to me to have covered what is now Williamsburg and parts of present day counties west of present day Horry and Georgtown. (All Saints and Prince George Parishes were along the northern coast of S.C. with All Saints hugging the coast line and Prince George spreading out some to the west to what is now the N.C. border. Prince Frederick was west of Prince George. St. Marks was west of Prince Frederick with the Santee River being its southern border and the Pee Dee River being its northern border separating St. Marks from St. David's. St. Davids was north of St. Marks and they both shared a border with Prince Frederick. Another map that I have show the St. Davids Parish border with St. Marks more closely as Lynches River. (Present day Lee County river) Seems to me that St. Davids has present day Florence, Darlington, and some of the other counties which are in what is known present day as the Pee Dee section of S.C. I would add Chesterfield, Marlboro counties to that list. Looks like Marion County was probably in Prince Fredericks, along with Dillion County. I do know that in driving through Society Hill, S.C. to take my son to Boy Scout camp that there is a St. David's Acadamy. Society Hill is a very old town. It's in Darlington County, almost in Chesterfield because not long after you turn off to go to the camp you are in Chesterfield. Good luck, Cindy

Can anyone tell me where to "look" for deeds that were done in the old county of Craven? I have several that were "laid out to" David Williams, Catherine Williams and Robert Williams about 1770. Did the term "laid out to" just mean "deeded to"? Also, does anyone know where St. David's Parish and St. Mark's Parish would be "located" now? This would probably answer my question as to what county this land is currently in. I apologize for so many questions, but I need some help. Thanks, Susie

I am looking for any information on Ernest Linwood Yarborough,born 19Nov1868,died 28Feb1934. Married Jeddie Ann Hancock 6Dec1891. His sisters were Annie m. Motte McGee, Molly m. Hudson, Berta, unknown. His parents were James or Billy Yarborough and Mary Elizabeth Scott or Parnell. She later married a Kirby. Place of burial unknown for her. Ernest and Jeddie are buried in Byrd Cemetery in Timmonsville,S.C. I have been unable to locate a birth or death certificate for Ernest. If anyone knows anything about this family or if you are researhing this family. Please let me know. Ernest and Jeddie had 14 children: James Frazier,Annie Laura,Linwood,George Dewey,Essie Mae,Leon Dove,Nell,Ray Coit,Dwight L,Sammie Lide,Mendel H.,Minnie,Julian and Louise. My father, Mendel and his sister Louise Yarborough McKay are the only members of this original family still living. Since I can not locate a death certificate for Ernest that might provide proof of his father's name and place of birth. I am hoping that perhaps someone in Sumter County might provide information on his sister Annie who married Motte McGee from around the Olanta area. If I could find her date of death perhaps I could locate her death certificate. A number of the above mentioned family members would have lived in Sumter County at various times and mainly involved in farming. Also, does anyone have access to the 1880 Sumter or Clarendon census records that might show a Mary Elizabeth Yarborough as head of the household with children Ernest,Annie,Moilly and Berta or Mary Elizabeth Kirby and Ben ? Kirby with the above named children? I would appreciate any help or words or encouragement. Thanks, Kay Yarborough Goff

Hello everyone, Everyone read the message about the Friday downtime for the Rootsweb web servers. They were down Pacific Time starting about 3:00 for sure because I couldn't get into the Clarendon page at 6:30 South Carolina time. (3:30 Pacific) Here is the latest message from Brian of Rootsweb. The servers will be down again today for a few hours. Happy researching. I spent the afternoon in the Sumter County Archives reading old newspapers again. (I am transcribing the genealogical information and it is fascinating.) Cindy Hi all - As many of you know, yesterday RootsWeb moved our main Web server onto a new pair of load-balanced T1 connections to The Net's core mesh, so we now have a total of 4 T1s' worth of outbound bandwidth. That should last us awhile. The next upgrade we plan is to double the memory in the main list server (lists.rootsweb.com) to 512 MB of DRAM. To accomplish that, we'll need to take the box entirely offline for 2-3 hours and there may be some brief downs after that while we tune things up. The downs will occur during the next 48 hours, and possibly as early as this afternoon if all goes well. After the main memory in the list server is upgraded, the next box we'll be upgrading is the search engine server. The new search engine server will have a gigabyte of DRAM and 45 GB of very high- speed RAID-5 disk storage. When the search engine upgrades are complete, we'll reindex the list archives, reindex the USGenWeb archives, give Marc Nozell all the space he'll ever need for the list archiver (:, and set up scheduled reindexing so the list and USGenWeb Archives searches stay fairly close to current. As always, I'd like to express RootsWeb's appreciation for your support. With a gigabyte of memory costing $3,500 and a RAID-5 array costing $7,500, we couldn't be doing all this without the support of RootsWeb's Members, Sponsors, and Donors. Cheers, B. -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798

At 12:13 PM -0500 1/10/98, Wm McI wrote: >I am searching for the parents of Mary FELDER (b. 1833) of Clarendon County >who married Charles Christopher THAMES, Jr. My records indicate her parents >were Joseph M. & Margaret FELDER. > >Having not found a single Joseph FELDER in SC before 1900, I have a "hunch" >that Mary's parents might have been Josiah FELDER and Margaret GAYLE. Any >information on the families of Josiah FELDER (born 1808) and Margaret GAYLE >would be greatly appreciated. > >Josiah FELDER's parents were John FELDER and Margaret WILLIAMS. My hope is >that a GAYLE or WILLIAMS researcher might have dates and spouse for the Mary >FELDER that was the daughter of Josiah FELDER & Margaret GAYLE and >grandaughter of John FELDER & Margaret WILLIAMS. > >Thanks, > >Bill McIntosh Hello Bill, My 5G Grandfather Robert SINGLTON married a Sarah GAYLE. I don't much information about the GAYLE family, but my information indicates that Sarah's father was Ambrose GAYLE and his father was Josiah GAYLE. I don't know if this will help, but you can see what information I do have at the SINGLETON home page below. Ted Singleton Family Home Page: http://astrodawg.com/gen/singleton/