Coker family
Family
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Amelia Wallace Vernon oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-???-0050
Scope and Contents
Transcriptions of interviews used in researching Vernon’s 1993 book:
African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina Transcriptions of oral history interviews collected while researching Vernon's 1993 book: African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina; topics discussed include African-American biography, family history, cultivation of rice, farming in general, construction, and other aspects of rural life.Family names represented include:...
Dates:
1977-1998
James Lide Coker papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-1448
Scope and Content Notes
The papers of James Lide Coker (JLC) (1837-1918) consist of approximately ten and one half linear feet of materials that serve to document his involvement in New South businesses in Hartsville and the Pee Dee region. Contextually, the papers span a sixty-year time frame, ranging from 1858 to 1918. The collection is divided into three series: (1) Plantation Records, (2) Correspondence, and (3) Personal Papers.Series I: Plantation RecordsSeries I...
Dates:
1800 - 1947
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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James Lide Coker papers
Lide, Coker, Stout families papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-5182
Scope and Contents
A collection of six hundred forty-five manuscripts provides information on this Darlington County family which has made outstanding contributions to the social and economic history of S. C. The entire collection is family correspondence. Hannah Ann Frances Lide and Caleb Coker, Jr., married 14 Oct. 1830, established a home at Society Hill where Caleb operated a general store. Prior to her marriage Hannah attended school in Charleston but only a few letters fall in this period. Letters of Caleb...
Dates:
1828 - 1914
Robert Richardson Coker papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-11295
Summary
Chiefly business and personal correspondence relating to Coker and the management of Coker's Pedigreed Seed Company and other family businesses including Coker's Experimental Farms, J. L. Coker & Company, Sonoco Products Company, and Hartsville Oil Mill.Coker was actively involved in the National Cotton Council; through this organization he worked tirelessly to find a way to eradicate the destructive boll weevil. His knowledge and expertise also led him to assume important...
Dates:
1890-1988