Crisp-Marion-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....COKER, FRANK M. October 31, 1928CORDELE DISPATV
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CORDELE DISPATCH
 COMMANDER OF CRISP VETERANS TAKEN BY DEATH
FRANK M. COKER AGE 87 VETERAN OF MANY CONFLICTS IN THE CIVIL WAR,PASSED LAST NIGHT
FRANK M COKER AGE 87 COMMANDOR OF THE  CRISP COUNTY CAMP,CONFEDERATE
VETERANS,SOLDIER IN MANY OF THE GREATER CONFLICTS OF THE CONFEDERACY PASSED IN
DEATH LAST MIDNIGHT AT HIS HOME IN NORTHERN HEIGHTS. HE HAD BEEN IN DECLINING
HEALTH FOR SEVERAL MONTHS,AND WAS SERIOUSLY ILL FOR SOME 8 TO 10 DAYS. HIS FAMILY 
KNEW OF HIS APPROACHING END AND WATCHED BY HIS BEDSIDE AS THE CROSSING INTO THE
LAND OF THE BEYOND TOOK PLACE.
  HE WAS A NATIVE OF MARION COUNTY ,BORN IN 1840 AND SAW MUCH OF THE PIONEER
DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SECTION OF GEORGIA.HE JOINED COMPANY A FAMOUS CUTTS
ARTILLARY AT MAGNOLIA SPRINGS,SUMTER COUNTY ON JUNE 18,1861.HE MISSED THE 1ST
BATTLE OF MANASSAS THOUGH ON THE GROUNDS ,DUE TO THE FACT HIS COMPANY HAD NOT
BEEN EQUIPPED.THE NEXT DAY IT WAS FITTED OUT WITH EQUIPMENT TAKEN IN THAT BATTLE
AND WAS IN THE 2ND BATTLE OF MANASSAS. HE WAS IN FREDRICKSBURG,
CHANCELLORSVILLE,GETTYSBURG,THE BATTLE AROUND RICHMOND.AND WAS AT THE SURRENDER
AT APPROMATAX.LEE AND JACKSON WERE GREAT HEREOS WITH HIM AND HE LEAVES A REQUEST
-WRITTEN IN HIS OWN HAND THAT THE CHILDREN STUDY THE HISTORY OF THOSE TWO GREAT
SOUTHERN HEREOS.
MR. COKER ALWAYS TOOK AN INTEREST IN CURRENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS. HE NEVER FAILED
TO DISCUSS THE TOPICS OF THE DAY WITH EVERYBODY AND USUALLY HAD PERTINENT AND
INTERESTING COMMENTS TO MAKE ON THE HAPPENINGS OF THE DAY.HE WAS A UNIVERSALIST
ON RELIGIOUS BELIEFS .HE WAS A CONSISTANT MASON ,ONE OF THE 2 LONE SURVIVING
MEMBERS OF CORDELIA LODGE.THE OTHER IS WALTER B. MATTHEWS,FOR MANY YEARS HE WAS
A CITIZEN OF CORDELE.
THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT THE FAMILY HOME TOMORROW MORNING AT
TEN THIRTY.THE SERVICES WILL BE IN CHARGE OF REV.E.A. PRICE PASTOR OF NORTHERN
HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH AND DR. G.W. CURRY PASTOR OF THE 1ST METHODIST CHURCH.
THE PALLBEARERS WILL BE HIS NEPHEWS MESSRS. CARL AND ALLEN CHOW,OF PELHAM
,T.M.COKER JR.,HOMER POPE,COLUMBUS,J.E. MILLS,CORDELE,AND STARLY McCRAE.THE
HONARARY PALLBEARERS WILL BE MESSRS. W.B. MATTHEWS, J.S. SHEPPARD,
J.T.WESTBROOK, JOHN LASSETER, M.F. CARTER, P.R. GREENE,T.E. JENNINGS,AND BEN
SHEPPARD.




Additional Comments:
THE HONARARY PALLBEARERS J.S.SHEPPARD IS MY PATERNAL GREAT UNCLE,JOHN LASSETER
IS MY PATERNAL GREAT-GREAT UNCLE AND BEN SHEPPARD IS MY PATERNAL GRAND FATHER

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