2. John Coker
1. Subj: RE: John H. Morgan, Mary Ann Carter, Mary Ann Coker
Date: 07/20/2000
From: spiff@atlantic.net (John C. Carter)(Re: death cert. of Mary Ann Coker Morgan)...I have a copy of the death certificate in front of me right now (sent to me a few years ago by Lynn), and I think the confusion lies in the handwriting where the "name of father" box is. If you "squint" or look at the name Coker in a certain way, (which is actually written like CoKer), the capital K can look like an "r" and a "t." It then becomes easy to presume the "o" is an "a." But the name is actually Coker.
...the certificate is indeed #2584 (although there is a #5251 scribbled out just above this), and it specifies the following:
Name: Mary Morgan.
Date of Death: Sept 20, 1923 (11pm).
Sex: Fem.
Color or Race: C
Status: Married
Date of Birth: Sept 9, 1844
Age: 79 yrs., __ mos., 19 ds.
Birthplace: Del.
Occupation: Housework.
Name of Father: John Coker
Birthplace of Father: Del.
Name of Mother: Eliza Jackson
Birthplace of Mother: Del.
Informant: John H. Morgan.
Address: Cheswold, Del.
Cause of Death: Fractured Hip; General Debility, Fell Down Stairs
Place of Burial: Manship Cem.
Date of Burial: Sept 23, 1923.
Undertaker: Calvin Clark.
Address: Dover, Del.
2. 1870 Federal census Kenton Hundred, Kent County, Delaware Dwelling 301 Family 298, lines 22-24, 30 June 1870, M593 119, p. 300B NRNW = no read no write(James is as written)
Coker, James 52 male M F Hand b MD m cit US, $100 pers
Eliza 55 fem M K House b DE NRNW
Moses 21 m M F Hand b DE m cit US
Families enumerated in succession: James Coker, Cherry Carney, Isaac Salmons, George Clark, Elita (sic) Durham, Joel Durham, Martin Ford, James Munce
1. GEDCOM file from John Carter 3/98 (spiff@atlantic.net)1. Death cert of daughter Mary, #2584 Delaware 1923.
2. Subj: RE: John H. Morgan, Mary Ann Carter, Mary Ann Coker
Date: 07/20/2000
From: spiff@atlantic.net (John C. Carter)(Re: death cert. of Mary Ann Coker Morgan)...I have a copy of the death certificate in front of me right now (sent to me a few years ago by Lynn), and I think the confusion lies in the handwriting where the "name of father" box is. If you "squint" or look at the name Coker in a certain way, (which is actually written like CoKer), the capital K can look like an "r" and a "t." It then becomes easy to presume the "o" is an "a." But the name is actually Coker.
...the certificate is indeed #2584 (although there is a #5251 scribbled out just above this), and it specifies the following:
Name: Mary Morgan.
Date of Death: Sept 20, 1923 (11pm).
Sex: Fem.
Color or Race: C
Status: Married
Date of Birth: Sept 9, 1844
Age: 79 yrs., __ mos., 19 ds.
Birthplace: Del.
Occupation: Housework.
Name of Father: John Coker
Birthplace of Father: Del.
Name of Mother: Eliza Jackson
Birthplace of Mother: Del.
Informant: John H. Morgan.
Address: Cheswold, Del.
Cause of Death: Fractured Hip; General Debility
Fell Down Stairs
Place of Burial: Manship Cem.
Date of Burial: Sept 23, 1923.
Undertaker: Calvin Clark.
Address: Dover, Del.
...I don't have anything on the marriage of Eliza Jackson, nor any other
information about her. (But I would LOVE to! I have often wondered about
her connection to the other Jacksons. This is a whole unexplored branch
for me, and could potentially add a whole 'nuther bundle of
inter-connections for me!)