John Clayton Coker

John Clayton Coker was the son of Moses Coker and Mary Ann Dean . He was born in Kent Co., DE on 23 April, 1884.

He married Phoebe Carney , daughter of James Perry CARNEY and Harriett DURHAM, who was born 14 December, 1889.

They had the following children:

  1. Lethia Harriett Coker (1912-1986)

  2. James Henry Coker ( Jan. 31, 1908- Nov. 8, 1984) married Elizabeth Durham (1911-1967), daughter of Benjamin and Anna Durham.
      children:
    • Glendora Coker (1928-1948)
    • Charles Coker
    • Evelyn Coker
    • James Russell Coker married Dorothy Johnson
    • Carl Lee Coker
    • Franklin Eugene Coker
    • Larry Coker

  3. Frankford Coker

  4. John Coker (23 March 1915- April 29, 1996) married Lilian Durham, daughter of Benjamin and Anna Durham
      children:
    • Joanne Coker
    • Donald Coker married Harriett Morgan
    • Leroy Coker married #1)Patsy Mosely and #2) Sandra Johnson
    • Jackie Coker
    • Monica Coker
    • Edward Coker married Lorrine Greenage
    • Barbara Coker
    • Eleanor Coker (1934- ) married Vern McKinney
    • Ricky Coker
    • Steven Coker

John Clayton was a farmer who lived all his life in Kent Co., dying there on 11 February, 1915 of chronic valvular heart disease, at the age of 30. He is buried at Immanuel Union (Manship) Church in Cheswold., DE. Phoebe died on 14 May, 1966 in Fairfield, Cumberland Co., NJ and is buried at Gouldtown Memorial Park, Gouldtown, Cumberland Co., NJ.