1. Delayed Delaware birth cert. #7596 (years prior to 1913). Family Bible record. Filed 16 Jun 1942.
Number of children of this mother: 12. Born alive and living when this birth occurred: 7. Born alive but dead when this birth occurred: 4.
2. Manship cemetery grave marker, only years.
3. Hazel Carney Mosley's memories 9/11/97 (daughter of Amanda Coker Carney).
4. Lynn Jackson says Amanda was buried the day John F. Kennedy was shot: 22 Nov 1963.
5. SSDI: SSN 222-03-7086
1. Caroline Coker Jackson's personal records.
2. Manship cemetery grave marker, only years.
3. Hazel Carney Mosley's memories 9/11/97 (daughter of Amanda Coker Carney).
4. Death notice: In Cheswold, Del., on May 26, 1958, Clement Sr., husband of Amanda Carney and father of Hazel Mosley of Milford, Del., Horace Carney of Philadelphia, Pa., and Ted Carney of Cheswold, Del., aged 88 years.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at Immanuel Union Methodist Church, Cheswold, Del., on Friday afternoon, May 30, at 1 o'clock. Interment at adjoining cemetery. Friends may call Thurday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock at the Howard C. Stevenson Funeral Chapel, Dover, Del.
6. Notes by Dr. Clinton A. Weslager: November 7, 1941. "We witnessed a tall-story contest between Clem Carney and one of the Jacksons from Seaford, Delaware. He was Seaford Jackson's son from Seaford, Delaware. Also Robert Coker, who is a native of Cheswold. There were about 12 Moors in the audience listening to these tales, which were all remarkable and witty. Clem Carney was known to tell many, many stories. He told the story about a man in a burning skyscraper who made rubber boots and shoes in this factory that caught on fire. The man put on a pair of rubber boots and jumped out of the window to the street and he kept bouncing up and down and he bounced so much that he had to be shot to keep from starving to death. Another man jumped from a building but the building was so high that he stopped 15 minutes on the way down for lunch. He said one day there was a swarm of mosquitoes so thick down in Kent County he had to go out and shoot through them, so they could see the sun. He said the mosquitoes punctured an old hot water boiler where a young man was hiding. These mosquitoes were so powerful that they punctured the boiler that he was hiding in with their beaks. He hit their beaks with a hammer and bent them over and as he crawled out of this boiler he found he was flying way high out over the woods because the mosquitoes had flew away with the boiler.Someone else told a story--I think it was Robert Coker--who talked about fishing. They had caught a fish with so many hooks in him that they had to sell the fish for scrap metal. Clem
said they caught a woman-fish in the Delaware Bay. They exhibited the fish for 10 cents. She had webbed hands and legs, breast and a woman's face. This, of course, means a mermaid, which is a real tall story. Then they told one about a mountain so tall that they had to put hinges on top to let the sun go past. Then Clem talked about three girls. Someone asked who is the prettiest? Clem said they were of one prettiness.The stories went on and on like that. Clem told me he was born in 1869. He once worked for a white farmer. The farmer had a table for the family and for the white hired hands, and then he had a table for the black hired hand and then he had a table for Clem apart from the white table. This was how he was making a distinction between these three classes and the farmer would pass the food from table to table. Clem told me that he took a horse saddle to a white family and stayed overnight. They wanted him to come inside, but he said he didn't want to. Then he said that he wasn't white. Clem looked as white as anybody you could imagine, but he knew that there was a racial admixture in him and he wasn't white. So they threw a horse blanket out to him so he could sleep on the bench.
Clem's wife said to me she had two white cousins. At the Adventist school we visited, which Elmer Durham showed us today, they have twenty desks, two small blackboards and a teacher's desk they got from the state."
Clem told me he was born in 1869. He once worked for a white farmer. The farmer had a table for the family and for the white hired hands, and then he had a table for the black hired hand and then he had a table for Clem apart from the white table. This was how he was making a distinction between these three classes and the farmer would pass the food from table to table. Clem told me that he took a horse saddle to a white family and stayed overnight. They wanted him to come inside, but he said he didn't want to. Then he said that he wasn't white. Clem looked as white as anybody you could imagine, but he knew that there was a racial admixture in him and he wasn't white. So they threw a horse blanket out to him so he could sleep on the bench.
...Spent some more time with Uncle John Johnson and Aunt Neeley Ann and got some information about herbs. I took Uncle John to see Clem Carney who had just returned from the hospital. He had just had an operation. While we visited him, I noticed that his wife Amanda, who had Indian features, was using a turkey wing broom on her stove. Now that is real old Indian custom. I asked her if I could buy that turkey wing broom. I guess she thought I was crazy wanting to buy something like that. She laughed and said I could have it, she could easily get another one.
While we were there her daughter from Milford drove in. It was a very profitable and enjoyable trip. Met a lot of people. I was amazed at how these people take in children of their own kind and raise them, one woman who had none of her own, was known to have raised 30 head. The orphans were always taken in by friends or relatives when the parents died, which is a very interesting comment and certainly a very Indian-like custom. Mrs. Nora Carney went to the Orphans Home and wanted to adopt a child of their color. She said that the authorities said that they never receive any orphans from the yellow people. The orphans were always taken in by friends or relatives when the parents died.
1. Delayed Delaware birth cert. #7466 (years prior to 1913). Family Bible record. Filed 27 May 1942.
Number of children of this mother: 14. Born alive and living when this birth occurred: 9. Born alive but dead when this birth occurred: 4.
2. Delaware marriage cert. #207 1914
3. Manship cemetery grave marker: Nathan L. Coker 1894 - 1955
4. Hazel Carney Mosley's memories 9/11/97 (daughter of Amanda Coker Carney).
5. Date: 99-01-21
From: LFREIDA 15Alexanders son Levi Mosley m Lizzie (Sarah Elizabeth) Pritchett from Md, don't know who her parents were. Levi and Lizzie had Children Lena m -----------?, Annie m Nathan Coker, and they had a dau Nellie, then Annie m Charles Cooper and had Children Louise, Dorothy, Charles, Aldea, Ollie, Bennie , Sarah, Mary Cooper.
6. 1920 Delaware, KENT, 1 ELECTION DIST 4 REP DIST, Series:T625 Roll: 200 Page: 143, 16 Jan, 1920Moseley, Lizzie head f Mu 46 m DE-DE-DE
Lena dau f Mu 27 m DE-DE-DE
Williard son m Mu 17 s DE-DE-DE
Lizzie dau f Mu ? s DE-DE-DE
Croker, Nellie gdau f Mu s DE-DE-DE
Croker, Alonso gson m Mu s DE-DE-DE
1. Date: 99-01-21
From: LFREIDA 15Alexanders son Levi Mosley m Lizzie (Sarah Elizabeth) Pritchett from Md, don't know who her parents were. Levi and Lizzie had Children Lena m ----?, Annie m Nathan Coker, and they had a dau Nellie, then Annie m Charles Cooper and had Children Louise, Dorothy, Charles, Aldea, Ollie, Bennie, Sarah, Mary Cooper.
2. Delaware marriage cert. #207 1914 -- states wrongly that mother was born Delaware.
3. Dover Area Death Records by Gregg & Ridgeway--a list of death records gathered from various sources who wish to remain anonymous. Record of daughter Rosella. "Rosella M. Coker, 15 years, 1929, parents Norton Coker and Annie Mosley. Ordered by Willard Mosley, Bridgeton, N.J." Lorraine Johnson-Gregg comments, "It is known that his name was Nathan Coker."
4. Subj: Re: Mosley Legacy
Date: 99-03-09
From: BraunAMy g grandfather was Levi H. Mosley. He married Lizzie Pritchett. They had several children, one namely Anna Mariah Mosley. Her first husband was Nathan Coker. They had one child (I think) named Nellie. My grandmother than married my granddad, Oliver Cooper Sr. They lived on Fulton St. in Dover, where they raised 8 children. My mother Elizabeth is one of them. We are planning an off-spring party of Cooper-Mosley on Sept 11th of this year, our first. We are seeking information to pass down to our young ones. I have recently been in touch with Cousin Warren (Nippy) and Linda of NJ.
5. Descendants of Purnell Mosley, sent by TheoLouise Braunskill brauna@freewwweb.com.
6. Notes for ANNA MARIAH MOSLEY, from the eyes of Theo Louis Braunskill, rec'd 1/7/2000:GrandMom Annie died before I was born. But since I have been doing this research, I feel very close to her. I was even named after her for 1 week, before my mom changed her mind and chose Theo.
GrandMom Annie was very protective of her children. She was a very good mother and wife. One old lady said to me "Your grandmom loved herself some Ollie Cooper". She loved her man. She was also very brave because she came from an era that said she should stay within her own kind. GrandMom Annie was Nanticoke-Lenni Lenape Indian from Cheswold. The Mosley side came from Millsboro and then to Frederica, then to Cheswold. The Pritchett side came from Ridgely, MD, to Frederica, then to Cheswold.
It has been great researching her side of the family because we have been doing it together with other "Cousins" all over the Country. We e-mail one another everyday. I don't know any of them but yet we are all related.
More About ANNA MARIAH MOSLEY: Cause of Death: aneurism of the brain
7. Fork Branch cemetery inscription: Anna M. Cooper 1894 - 1946
30. Caroline Coker
1. Caroline Coker Jackson's personal records: birth & marriage dates.
2. Manship cemetery grave marker: "Caroline Jackson 1896 - 1981"
3. Caroline lived in Wilmington, DE, where she talked about her family with Wilson and Grace Davis.
4. 10/24/97, Grace Mosley Kemp: middle name, brothers and sisters to Clara: Levin Jackson is brother to her mother, Clara Jackson Mosley, wife of Wingate Burton Mosley. Other sibs of Levin and Clara: Alice, Matilda, Caroline, Rebecca, Robert and John. There may be others.
5. letter from Lynn Jackson, 11/30/97: death date
1. Caroline Coker Jackson's personal records.
2. Manship cemetery grave marker: "Levin Jackson 1893 - 1981"
3. Grace Mosley Kemp, 10/24/97: Levin Jackson is brother to her mother, Clara Jackson Mosley, wife of Wingate Burton Mosley. Other sibs of Levin and Clara: Alice, Matilda, Caroline, Rebecca, Robert and John. There may be others.
4. Letter from Lynn Jackson, 11/30/97: death date
5. Also see notes for father
6. Subj: Re: Robert B Jackson-James Tyrone (Tee) Norwood
Date: 11/23/2002
From: LFREIDA 15
To: BettyandRayTerry
File: Robert B Jackson.RTF (64801 bytes) DL Time (115200 bps): < 1 minuteLevin Jackson1 was born on Oct 28 1893 in Sussex County, Delaware. He died on Nov 18 1981 in Wilmington, Newcastle, Delaware. He was buried in Immanuel Union United Methodist Church Cemetery, Bishop's Corner, Delaware.
He was married to Caroline Coker (daughter of Moses Coker and Mary Ann Dean) on May 31 1914. Caroline Coker1 was born on May 28 1896 in Delaware. She died on Jul 13 1981. She was buried in Immanuel Union United Methodist Church (Manship) Cemetery, Bishop's Corner, Delaware, U.S.A..
Levin Jackson and Caroline Coker had the following children:
60 i. Beatrice Jackson.
61 ii. Francis L. Jackson.
62 iii. Wagner D. Jackson.
63 iv. Lacey Lenox Jackson.
1. Delaware birth cert. #3795 1915. Father Levin Jackson, mother Caroline Coker. Color/race - Moor. Child’s number in family: 1. Child’s number by this mother: 1.
2. Hazel Carney Mosley's memories 9/11/97 (daughter of Amanda Coker Carney).
3. Subj: Deans
Date: 97-11-30
From: JACKLYN001
To: AquaBettyFile: DEANS.DOC (26624 bytes) DL Time (19200 bps): < 1 minute
About the Jacksons :
Levin JACKSON (b. 28 Oct., 1893 - d. 18 Nov. 1981) married on 31 May,1914
Caroline COKER (b. 28 May 1896 - d. 13 July 1981) both are buried at Manship Church in Cheswold. They had 4 children.1) Beatrice JACKSON ( b. 16 , Dec. 1915) married William JACKSON (b. 26 Oct. 1915 -d. 19 June, 1989) They had no children. William is buried at Indian Mission Church and Beatrice lives in DC
1. Info from Celeste Marshall's web site -- http://members.aol.com/Nanticoke9/page/index.htm --
CUSTIS WHITTINGTON JOHNSON (WILLIAM ARTHUR, WHITTINGTON1) was born November 04, 1892, and died August 28, 1976 in Millsboro, DE. He met ARZEALA (AMELIA?) WRIGHT, daughter of NICHOLAS WRIGHT <http://members.aol.com/jacklyn001/wright-n.htm> and AMELIA STREET.Child of CUSTIS JOHNSON and ARZEALA WRIGHT is:
WILLIAM JACKSON, b. Unknown; m. BEATRICE JACKSON.
We do not know why William has the surname Jackson.
2. Subj: Deans
Date: 97-11-30
From: JACKLYN001
To: AquaBettyFile: DEANS.DOC (26624 bytes) DL Time (19200 bps): < 1 minute
About the Jacksons :
Levin JACKSON (b. 28 Oct., 1893 - d. 18 Nov. 1981) married on 31 May,1914
Caroline COKER (b. 28 May 1896 - d. 13 July 1981) both are buried at Manship Church in Cheswold. They had 4 children.1) Beatrice JACKSON ( b. 16 , Dec. 1915) married William JACKSON (b. 26 Oct. 1915 -d. 19 June, 1989). They had no children. William is buried at Indian Mission Church and Beatrice lives in DC