Barbara Coker Collection

Summary: A collection of family history items and documentation for the Coker and McAllister families. All items are copies of poor quality.
  • Lewis McAllister, copy of baseball card with Newark team, 1910
  • 1850 census from Autauga County, Alabama, showing Harriett McAllister and children, William and Lewis C.
  • 1880 census, Tarrant County, Texas, showing W.J. McAllister, wife M. L. sons . W.L. and T.L. wherein the father is shown to be working for sewing machine company
  • Fort Worth City Directories excerpts for 1882, 1885-1886, 1886-1887,1888-1889 which show William J. McAllister and Lewis C. McAllister
  • Marriage license (copy) J.W. Coker and Alice Hood, Navarro County, Jan. 16, 1873
  • Fort Worth Police Department composite 1891-1892, J. W. Coker shown
  • 1916 newspaper article - Police Head once "Shined" shoes about J. W. Coker, then 66
  • Notes on sheet state J W Coker married a second time to Josephine Trice on March 4, 1882 (Tarrant County). J. W. stood for John D. Wesley Coker
  • Newspaper column from Athens Weekly Review dated February 17, 1983 "Yesteryear" by Estelle Corder on Joseph Coker
  • Poor quality copy of photograph of family standing in front of house with picket fence. Identity of older gentleman (bearded) unknown, believed to be J W Coker at Fort Worth home, 1733 Bessie. Other people not identified.