Lide-Coker family papers [Addition], 1846-1861.

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Lide-Coker family papers [Addition], 1846-1861.

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Chiefly correspondence, 1846-1861, of Anna Maria Coker with her parents, Caleb and Hannah Lide Coker, and siblings in Society Hill while Anna was at Limestone Female High School; the school letters describe her studies, piano lessons, and May party events, 1847-1849. Also included are letters, 1853, from Anna Maria to her brother, James L. Coker, an Arsenal Academy cadet in Columbia. That same year Anna and a cousin visited New York City where they stayed at the St. Nicholas Hotel [at Broadway and Spring Street] which had a "bridal chamber." In a letter, 1 Oct. 1853 (folder 18, lettersize), written from Newark, N.J., Anna noted that this special room was decorated with white satin, white silk, gilt, and a bed "hung with white satin curtains, falling from a golden canopy, over a gilt bedstead, a golden cupid on each corner holds them up," and cost $9,000 to furnish. In 1857, Anna M. Coker married Berryman Wheeler Edwards; a later letter, 2 Oct. 1861, from Anna's husband describes his recovery from an illness in Fairfax, Va.: "Sunday I walked into the garden, with great difficulty. Monday I struggled out about two hundred yards." In a postscript, James reports having seen the Colonel, "he is improving & looks a great deal better than before his attack. I think you may look for him home a few days after receiving this. His going will be a great privation to me ..."

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Edwards, Berryman Wheeler, 1824-1890

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Arsenal Academy (Columbia, S.C.)

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Coker, Anna Maria, 1834-1899

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Coker, James Lide, 1837-1918

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Limestone Springs Female High School (Gaffney, S.C.)

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Lide 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 ...

Coker family.

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Coker, Hannah Lide, 1812-

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Hannah Lide Coker (1812-1900) was the wife of Caleb Coker, Jr, a planter, of Society Hill, S.C.; born Hannah Ann Frances Lide; daughter of James Lide; grand-daughter of Major Robert Lide; mother of 10 children; graduate of Miss Ramsey's School for Young Ladies, Charleston, S.C. From the description of Annotations to Hannah Lide Coker memoir, 1945. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 42284917 ...