A resident of Jacksonville, Florida, author Edward Caleb Coker is the great-great-grandson of Helen Ellsworth Blair (1817-1881) and William Warren Chapman (1814-1859). The former is known for her letters which chronicle life on the Texas frontier as well as in Brownsville and Corpus Christi. A graduate of Stanford University and Duke Law School, Coker published an edited volume of his great-great-grandmother’s correspondence entitled, The News from Brownsville: Helen Chapman’s Letters from the Texas Military Frontier, 1848-1852 (Austin, Tex.: Texas State Historical Association, 1992).
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Coker, Caleb. Chapman, Helen Ellsworth Blair. Handbook of Texas Online . Accessed March 23, 2011. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fch69 .
From the guide to the Coker, Edward Caleb, Papers 91-161; 92-255; 92-360; 93-086; 94-172; 94-253; 93-086., [ca. 1989-1992], (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
