Brief Life History of Mary R. J.
When Mary R. J. Coker was born on 26 November 1836, in Tunnel Hill, Whitfield, Georgia, United States, her father, Robert B Coker III, was 41 and her mother, Elizabeth Lake, was 43. She married Vinson Franklin Bowman in 1856, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 1, Comanche, Texas, United States in 1900 and Comanche, Comanche, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 16 May 1917, in Comanche, Texas, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Comanche, Comanche, Texas, United States.
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- Mary Bowman in household of Frank Bowman, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary R. J. Coker - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Mary Coker
- Mary R. Bowman, "Find A Grave Index"
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1838 · Orders No. 25 Removes Cherokees
A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
1848
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Murray, Georgia, United States 1851: Whitfield, Georgia, United States
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Name Meaning
see Cocker .
habitational name from a group of villages in Somerset named with Coker, from a Celtic river name meaning ‘crooked’.
English (southeastern):
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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