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From: "Dorothy Falk" <>
Subject: Re: [ILCLINTON] COKER, George W. & Sarah W.
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 10:36:24 -0500
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I don't know about your Cokers, but I do see on http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilclint2/cemetery2/sectionF.htm that there are at least 3 graves without stones next to the Reverend, perhaps Sarah W. was buried there with only a wooden cross which has since disintegrated. Or perhaps she moved elsewhere to live with an adult child. She's not in the early death certificates which begin 1878, nor the early obits in the paper. Have you tried to write to the Baptist archives to see if they have an obit on him and/or his wife? Since he was pastor there, the First Baptist Church in Carlyle might have some info. Their address is 650 Franklin Street, zip 62231. Their phone number is 618-594-3223.

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Surnames: Coker, Snider, Angelly
Classification: Query

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George W. Coker was a Baptist minister in Carlyle, Clinton County, IL in the 1870 Census. He was b. in about 1819 in Tennessee and died in Carlyle in 1874. He is buried in the Carlyle City Cemetery. His wife was Sarah W. Coker and she was also listed in the census of 1870 in Carlyle. She is not listed in that cemetery.
This family came to Carlyle from the area of Cape Girardeau/Bollinger Counties in Missouri where they were listed in the census in 1850 and 1860. Their children were: Martha S., Joseph James, Eliza A. and Mary Ethel (sometimes listed as Marietta). Mary Ethel is in the census with her parents in 1870 in Carlyle, but turns up in Dyer County, TN by 1879 when she married Stephen Archer Wood.
I am hoping someone might know something about this family and what might have happened to Sarah W.
Thank you,
Judith K. Arthur


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