Papers of the Coker and Stout families 1785-1919.

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Papers of the Coker and Stout families 1785-1919.

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Letters, biographical sketches, miscellaneous printed items, and photographs document the connection between the Cokers of South Carolina and the Stouts of Alabama through the marriage of James Lide Coker (1837-1918) and Susan Armstrong Stout (1837-1904) in 1860. Letters, speeches, historical and biographical accounts, business and estate papers (deeds, indentures, promissory notes, and receipts) chronicle their lives and times and constitute a substantial addition to the Library's already rich and extensive holdings on the Coker family of Hartsville and Society Hill (Darlington County, S.C.). Of special interest is material reflecting the life and work of Susan's brother, the Rev. John Stout (1842-1894), a Furman graduate and Baptist minister who served Welsh Neck Church, 1874-1892, in Society Hill, and also in Cheraw, Newberry, and Darlington, S.C. Antebellum papers include letters written from New York, N.Y.; Otto, Ill.; Barhamville, S.C. (site of the S.C. Female Collegiate Institute); and Montgomery, Talledega, and Wetumpka, Ala. (two letters from Wetumpka were mailed in illustrated envelopes promoting a local business, the "Carriage Repository," a wagon and buggy dealership); correspondence from Civil War years (a majority of letters written from Alabama) filed in folders 1 - 4 and 13. The collection also includes items relating to the Hartsville School Association (1891), the Pee Dee Historical Association, Coker College, the Hartsville Railroad Company, and the New Providence Baptist Church. Among individual items of note are such papers and accounts as "Sketch of Methodist Church Hartsville S.C.," "Tribute to Dr. Thomas E. Hart" (1892), "Maj. J.L. Coker's Opinions...on Slavery" (13 Aug. 1912), "Short Sketch of the Ancestors and the Family of Caleb Coker of Society Hill" (by James Lide Coker), and "A Return of Votes for Congress, Senate Representatives & Tax Collector in Darlington District 14 & 15 Oct. 1844." Biographical and genealogical information on the Coker and Stout families, as well as biographical sketches of African Americans who worked for the Coker family as slaves and freedmen. Other family names represented in the collection are Chambers, Edwards, Hart, Holloway, Kolb, Lide, McClellan, McIver, Waller, Westfield, and Woodruff. One daguerreotype and eight photographs (late 19th century) most unidentified, include images of James Lide Coker, ca. 1880 and other male and female family members; and a badge woven from Palmetto straw in shape of a palm tree flanked by a painted Confederate and South Carolina flags.

1 straw badge (palmetto tree with flags)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7569417

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Hart, Thomas E., 1833-1891.

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Stout family.

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Lide family.

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Coker, James Lide, 1837-1918

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Carriage Repository (Wetumpka, Ala.)

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Westfield family.

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United States. Congress

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McClellan family.

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Holloway family.

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Hart family.

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Woodruff family.

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Hartsville School Association (S.C.)

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McIver family.

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Pee Dee Historical Association.

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Coker, Susan Stout, 1837-1904.

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Coker family.

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Hartsville Railroad Company (firm)

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New Providence Baptist Church (Hartsville, S.C.)

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Stout, John, 1842-1894.

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Welsh Neck Baptist Church (Society Hill, S.C.)

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Waller family.

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Coker, Caleb, 1802-1869.

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Planter of Darlington County, S.C.; chairman of the Soldiers' Board of Relief for Darlington District, S.C.; husband of Hannah Ann Francis Lide Coker (1812-1900); brother of A.E. Coker and Lewis Coker. From the description of Caleb Coker papers, 1856-1865. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 42638559 ...

Edwards family.

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Chambers family.

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Kolb family.

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