RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH
JANUARY 10 1904
The funeral of Captain Alexander Coke, who died Friday in Williamsburg, after an illness of eight years, will take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon from Bruton Parish Church. The interment will be made in Williamsburg. The friends of the family will leave on the 9 o'clock train in the morning and return at 6 P.M.
Captain Coke was a gallant Confederate soldier and a well known and widely popular citizen of Richmond. He was a prominent member of the Westmoreland Club and was formerly a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of this city. He was a brother of Major John Coke, of the law firm of Coke and Pickrell, and had many warm friends in Richmond.
Captain Coke was seventy-one years of age, having been born and reared in the city of Williamsburg; was educated at William and Mary College, and after graduating in the law, located in Princess Anne county, and successfully practiced law there and in Norfolk city until the commencement of the war between the States. He enterred the army at the beginning of the war and became captain of a company in the Sixth Virginia regiment of infantry, Mahone's brigade, and served in that capacity until the war ended. He represented his county in the House of Delegates during the war, taking his seat in the Legislature in the winter whilst the army was in winter quarters, and resuming command of his company when the Legislature adjourned. He continued to practice his profession in Princess Anne county for several years after the war ended, and subsequently removed to Richmond, where he has since resided. He remained in active practice until forced by ill health to abandon it. For the past year he has been in Williamsburg among the friends of his younger days endeavoring to build up his health.
JANUARY 10 1904
The funeral of Captain Alexander Coke, who died Friday in Williamsburg, after an illness of eight years, will take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon from Bruton Parish Church. The interment will be made in Williamsburg. The friends of the family will leave on the 9 o'clock train in the morning and return at 6 P.M.
Captain Coke was a gallant Confederate soldier and a well known and widely popular citizen of Richmond. He was a prominent member of the Westmoreland Club and was formerly a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of this city. He was a brother of Major John Coke, of the law firm of Coke and Pickrell, and had many warm friends in Richmond.
Captain Coke was seventy-one years of age, having been born and reared in the city of Williamsburg; was educated at William and Mary College, and after graduating in the law, located in Princess Anne county, and successfully practiced law there and in Norfolk city until the commencement of the war between the States. He enterred the army at the beginning of the war and became captain of a company in the Sixth Virginia regiment of infantry, Mahone's brigade, and served in that capacity until the war ended. He represented his county in the House of Delegates during the war, taking his seat in the Legislature in the winter whilst the army was in winter quarters, and resuming command of his company when the Legislature adjourned. He continued to practice his profession in Princess Anne county for several years after the war ended, and subsequently removed to Richmond, where he has since resided. He remained in active practice until forced by ill health to abandon it. For the past year he has been in Williamsburg among the friends of his younger days endeavoring to build up his health.
RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH
JANUARY 10 1904
The funeral of Captain Alexander Coke, who died Friday in Williamsburg, after an illness of eight years, will take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon from Bruton Parish Church. The interment will be made in Williamsburg. The friends of the family will leave on the 9 o'clock train in the morning and return at 6 P.M.
Captain Coke was a gallant Confederate soldier and a well known and widely popular citizen of Richmond. He was a prominent member of the Westmoreland Club and was formerly a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of this city. He was a brother of Major John Coke, of the law firm of Coke and Pickrell, and had many warm friends in Richmond.
Captain Coke was seventy-one years of age, having been born and reared in the city of Williamsburg; was educated at William and Mary College, and after graduating in the law, located in Princess Anne county, and successfully practiced law there and in Norfolk city until the commencement of the war between the States. He enterred the army at the beginning of the war and became captain of a company in the Sixth Virginia regiment of infantry, Mahone's brigade, and served in that capacity until the war ended. He represented his county in the House of Delegates during the war, taking his seat in the Legislature in the winter whilst the army was in winter quarters, and resuming command of his company when the Legislature adjourned. He continued to practice his profession in Princess Anne county for several years after the war ended, and subsequently removed to Richmond, where he has since resided. He remained in active practice until forced by ill health to abandon it. For the past year he has been in Williamsburg among the friends of his younger days endeavoring to build up his health.
JANUARY 10 1904
The funeral of Captain Alexander Coke, who died Friday in Williamsburg, after an illness of eight years, will take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon from Bruton Parish Church. The interment will be made in Williamsburg. The friends of the family will leave on the 9 o'clock train in the morning and return at 6 P.M.
Captain Coke was a gallant Confederate soldier and a well known and widely popular citizen of Richmond. He was a prominent member of the Westmoreland Club and was formerly a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of this city. He was a brother of Major John Coke, of the law firm of Coke and Pickrell, and had many warm friends in Richmond.
Captain Coke was seventy-one years of age, having been born and reared in the city of Williamsburg; was educated at William and Mary College, and after graduating in the law, located in Princess Anne county, and successfully practiced law there and in Norfolk city until the commencement of the war between the States. He enterred the army at the beginning of the war and became captain of a company in the Sixth Virginia regiment of infantry, Mahone's brigade, and served in that capacity until the war ended. He represented his county in the House of Delegates during the war, taking his seat in the Legislature in the winter whilst the army was in winter quarters, and resuming command of his company when the Legislature adjourned. He continued to practice his profession in Princess Anne county for several years after the war ended, and subsequently removed to Richmond, where he has since resided. He remained in active practice until forced by ill health to abandon it. For the past year he has been in Williamsburg among the friends of his younger days endeavoring to build up his health.
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