#1. Warren and wife Nancy join the Missionary Baptist Church, Feb. 1840 in Summit County Ala. (interview with Col Paddock) He was very active in the Missionary Church being a Deacon in his later years at Missionary Baptist Church in the Coker Cemetery near his ranch in Cooke county Texas.
(note) There was a chruch connected to the Coker Cemetery in 1924, when son, J. J. "Joe" was buried, according to granddaughter, Maezell Crocker. she stated she was nine years of age when they attend her grandfather, Joe's funeral, that they walked out of this chruch house into the cemetery to bury him in his family lot, [I have found that some of mother's information has been incorrect but cemetery deed speaks of church purposes])
#2. He was also a Conferate war veteran , wounded once serving with Company E. 3rd. Alabama Reserves. He was a courier, deliveried mail and messages between Companies or battalions. source, Maezell Crocker. He was a prisoner of war and paroled at the fall of the battle around Mobile, Ala after Lee's surrender, the last recorded major battle of the war, records in the Alabama State Archives.
[copy of conferate index card from the Civil War Archives , Ala State Captiol,Birmingham, Ala.] recorded in Paddock's North and West TexasHistory
#3. Bulcher Masonic Lodge records, he had an Royal Arch Degree and Woodsman of the World. [complier: E Mary Crocker, Great- Great-Grand-Daughter.]
(note) There was a chruch connected to the Coker Cemetery in 1924, when son, J. J. "Joe" was buried, according to granddaughter, Maezell Crocker. she stated she was nine years of age when they attend her grandfather, Joe's funeral, that they walked out of this chruch house into the cemetery to bury him in his family lot, [I have found that some of mother's information has been incorrect but cemetery deed speaks of church purposes])
#2. He was also a Conferate war veteran , wounded once serving with Company E. 3rd. Alabama Reserves. He was a courier, deliveried mail and messages between Companies or battalions. source, Maezell Crocker. He was a prisoner of war and paroled at the fall of the battle around Mobile, Ala after Lee's surrender, the last recorded major battle of the war, records in the Alabama State Archives.
[copy of conferate index card from the Civil War Archives , Ala State Captiol,Birmingham, Ala.] recorded in Paddock's North and West TexasHistory
#3. Bulcher Masonic Lodge records, he had an Royal Arch Degree and Woodsman of the World. [complier: E Mary Crocker, Great- Great-Grand-Daughter.]
#1. Warren and wife Nancy join the Missionary Baptist Church, Feb. 1840 in Summit County Ala. (interview with Col Paddock) He was very active in the Missionary Church being a Deacon in his later years at Missionary Baptist Church in the Coker Cemetery near his ranch in Cooke county Texas.
(note) There was a chruch connected to the Coker Cemetery in 1924, when son, J. J. "Joe" was buried, according to granddaughter, Maezell Crocker. she stated she was nine years of age when they attend her grandfather, Joe's funeral, that they walked out of this chruch house into the cemetery to bury him in his family lot, [I have found that some of mother's information has been incorrect but cemetery deed speaks of church purposes])
#2. He was also a Conferate war veteran , wounded once serving with Company E. 3rd. Alabama Reserves. He was a courier, deliveried mail and messages between Companies or battalions. source, Maezell Crocker. He was a prisoner of war and paroled at the fall of the battle around Mobile, Ala after Lee's surrender, the last recorded major battle of the war, records in the Alabama State Archives.
[copy of conferate index card from the Civil War Archives , Ala State Captiol,Birmingham, Ala.] recorded in Paddock's North and West TexasHistory
#3. Bulcher Masonic Lodge records, he had an Royal Arch Degree and Woodsman of the World. [complier: E Mary Crocker, Great- Great-Grand-Daughter.]
(note) There was a chruch connected to the Coker Cemetery in 1924, when son, J. J. "Joe" was buried, according to granddaughter, Maezell Crocker. she stated she was nine years of age when they attend her grandfather, Joe's funeral, that they walked out of this chruch house into the cemetery to bury him in his family lot, [I have found that some of mother's information has been incorrect but cemetery deed speaks of church purposes])
#2. He was also a Conferate war veteran , wounded once serving with Company E. 3rd. Alabama Reserves. He was a courier, deliveried mail and messages between Companies or battalions. source, Maezell Crocker. He was a prisoner of war and paroled at the fall of the battle around Mobile, Ala after Lee's surrender, the last recorded major battle of the war, records in the Alabama State Archives.
[copy of conferate index card from the Civil War Archives , Ala State Captiol,Birmingham, Ala.] recorded in Paddock's North and West TexasHistory
#3. Bulcher Masonic Lodge records, he had an Royal Arch Degree and Woodsman of the World. [complier: E Mary Crocker, Great- Great-Grand-Daughter.]
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William Warren Coker and wife Nancy Wilbanks Coker donored / sold the land for COKER CEMETERY to Cooke County a few months beford he died in 1892 so people of Bulcher would always have free ground to be buried..
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