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The Nathaniel Coker Family
contributed by Carol Ann Dykes Scott

As far as can now be determined, from overlaying information found in wills, census records, Civil War records, the Zachary Family Bible, and marriage records, the (Robert?) Nathaniel Coker family looks like this:

(Robert?) Nathaniel Coker was born about 1790 in South Carolina. He married Susanna Watson (b. Aug. 14, 1797), daughter of Thomas Watson and Susanna Zachary, about 1815. When they married, he was about 23 and she was 18. Over the course of the next eighteen years, Nathaniel Coker and Susanna Watson had nine children, most of whom Susanna named using combinations of the names of her in-laws and her own brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles. Those children were:

1. William Henry Coker (b. 1816), married Elizabeth Hawthorne. William became a physician. Thus far, I have seen only one son for William and Elizabeth, a son also named William Henry Coker, but I believe there was also a daughter.

2. George W. Coker (b. Abt. 1817) was named after Susanna Watson’s brother. I have not found a wife for George W. Coker, but the sale of his land after his death does say “subject to the widow’s dower.” That having been said, the probate of his estate names all of his siblings except older brother William Henry Coker as his heirs in an estate managed by his father, Nathaniel. George was a stagecoach driver on the stage line that stopped at his father’s tavern on the old Federal Highway.

3. Isabella Coker (b. Abt. 1818), married Joel Hardee, son of John Ziba Hardee and Peggy Mitchell, on June 1, 1835, in Monroe County, Alabama. Isabella’s brother, George W. Coker provided surety for the marriage. Isabella was named after Susanna’s father’s sister. We can also identify the individuals for whom a number of Isabella’s children are named. These include: oldest son, Nathan Ziba Hardee, named after both of his grandfathers; Cynthia Susan, named after both her Watson grandmother and Zachary great-grandmother; Mary Isabel, named after Isabella’s mother’s sister and father’s sister; and John Hamp, named after Joel’s brother and Isabella’s brother. The John Hamp Hardee family continues to use the names Thomas and Hamp to this day. Isabella died sometime between 1846, the year John Hamp was born, and 1854, the year George W. Coker’s will was probated. Joel never remarried.

4. Ann Coker (b. 1820) was named after Susanna Watson’s sister. Ann married Cornelius Smith.

5. Caroline Coker (b. Abt. 1822) married Isaac Smith.

6. Thompson Hamilton (Thomas Hamp) Coker (b. 1825) was named after Nathan Coker’s brother, Thompson Coker, who married Susanna Watson’s sister, Mary Polly. Thomas married Epsy Ann Grace on Feb. 28, 1848, in Monroe County, Alabama. Thomas also worked as a stagecoach driver on the stage line that stopped at his father’s tavern.

7. Mary E. Coker (b. Abt.1824) was named after two of Susanna Watson’s sisters. Mary was married by brother-in-law Joel Hardee to John L. Hart on April 10, 1851, in Monroe County, Alabama.

8. Martha E. Coker (b. Abt. 1829) was named after two of Susanna Watson’s sisters. Martha was married by brother-in-law Joel Hardee to William Jasper Snowden on July 9, 1855, in Monroe County, Alabama.

9. Nathaniel Blanton Coker (b. 1834) was named after his father and a Coker family friend and neighbor.

There is some speculation that a Nathan Coker, Jr. was also a child of Susanna Watson and Robert Nathaniel Coker. This is not likely because Nathan Coker, Jr. was mentally retarded and neither Nathaniel nor George W. Coker made provisions to care for this young man after their deaths. Since George W. Coker named all of his siblings, except older brother William in his will, it is safe to say that neither Nathan Coker, Jr. nor T.J. Coker were sons of Robert Nathaniel Coker and Susanna Watson. In fact, we now know that T.J. Coker was the son of Daniel Coker.

Susanna Watson Coker died between 1835 and 1848. Nathaniel Coker married a widow, Mrs. Mary Flake on April 28, 1849.

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