Page 2 of Finding Aid to the James Lide Coker Papers, 1800-1947, undated Page one of this finding aid available at following URL: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/mnscrpts/cokerjl.html
Extent: 24 cartons + 1 oversize folder + Bound volumes Location: PU-4
Series List I - Plantation Records, 1858-1862, undated - (Box 23, folders 700 & 701) II - Correspondence - Incoming/Outgoing, 1877-1947, undated - (Boxes 1-17, 23 Folders 702-705) III - Personal, 1800-1947, undated - (Boxes 17-22, 23-24; Oversize Folder, Bound Volumes)
Container List
SERIES I. Plantation Records
Box Folder Date 23 700-701 1858-1862 [and undated]
SERIES I. Correspondence
Incoming Correspondence
Box Folder Date 1 1-40 18 July 1877-17 September 1901
2 41-80 18 September 1901-16 March 1904
3 81-123 18 March 1904-22 June 1906
4 124-159 23 June 1906-31 December 1907
5 160-194 1 January 1908-20 November 1909
6 195-227 21 November 1909-15 February 1911
7 228-256 16 February 1911-29 February 1912
8 257-290 1 March 1912-26 February 1912
9 291-322 2 March 1914-24 March 1920
10 323-335 26 January 1947-no dates
23 702 14 November 1899-15 December 1910 (legal sized) Outgoing Correspondence
Box Folder Date 23 703 19 December 1890-12 May 1891 (legal sized)
10 336-355 13 July 1891-6 June 1907
11 356-394 7 June 1907-31 December 1904
12 395-427 1 January 1910-17 September 1910
13 428-462 19 September 1910-16 May 1911
14 463-487 19 May 1911-30 December 1911
15 488-531 1 January 1912-24 October 1913
16 532-569 27 October 1913-3 February 1913
17 570-611 6 February 1915-21 March 1916
704 17 April 1903-25 July 1912 (legal sized)
23 705 nd (legal sized)
25 3 November 1904-4 August 1905 Letter Copy Book
26 5 August 1905-2 February 1906 Letter Copy Book
Series III. Personal
Box Folder Date
23 706 American Newspaper Publishers Association, 1908
18 609 Audubon Society Annual Report, 1915
Business:
23 707 Agricultural Interest, [undated]
18 610 Bills, 1874-1910
23 708-709 Land Interests, 1855-1889, 1892-1895
18 611 Miscellaneous, and undated
23 710 “Observations Concerning Health and Comfort,” [undated]
711 Reports, [undated]
18 612 “Shortleaf Pine: Its Economic Importance and Forest Management,” 1915
23 712 Caleb and Hannah Lide Coker Tombstone Design, [undated] Series III. Personal (continued)
Box Folder Date 18 Character Sketches:
613 Edgar Wells Charles, [undated]
614 John Morgan Timmons and Juliua A. Dargan, 1910, and undated
615 Colonel Isaac Wilson and Thomas Parklide, [undated]
616-618 Cheraw and Darlington Railroad Company, 1853-1889
Civil War:
619 “A Wounded Confederate Soldier,” [undated]
620 “Our Danger and Our Duty,” 1862
Civil War, continued
621 Remembrances, 1910
Coker College:
622-625 Catalogues, 1910-1914
625a “Coker College Views,” 1914
626 Commencement Speech, [undated]
627 “Euterpean,” 1912
628 “The Howard Lee Jones Memorial Association Service,” 1916
23 713 Rules and Regulations, 1916, [and undated]
18 629 Speeches, [undated]
630 Miscellaneous Manuscripts Pertaining to Welsh High School and Coker College, [undated]
631 Quarterly Bulletin, October 1913 and 1915
632 “The Story of Coker College,” [undated]
23 714 Commemorative of Deacon J. T. Goodson, 1909
715 Confederate States Naval Academy Commencement, 1861
716 Darlington Land Improvement Company, 1909
717 Diary, [undated] 18 633 Education, “Methodism and Education,” 1914 Series III. Personal (continued)
Box Folder Date 19 634-635 Envelopes, 1892-1947
Financial:
23 718 Account Balances/Financial Statements, 1905-1912
19 636-638 Account Books, 1902-1907, 1910-1913
639-642 Checks, 1906-1916
23 719-721 Check Stubs, 1892-1893, 1909
19 643 Deposits, 1906-1935
644 Life Insurance, 1871-1916
Financial, continued
19 645 Receipts, 1892-1915
20 Genealogy:
646 Coker and Stout Families, [undated]
647 Wilds and Loyd Families, [undated]
648 Williams Family of Society Hill, South Carolina, 1910
649 Wilson and Sparks Family, 1909, [undated]
23 722 The Witherspoons of Society Hill, South Carolina, 1910
20 650 Great Falls Water Power, Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1891
Histories:
23 723 “Cruise of the Florida,” [undated]
724 Darlington, SC, 1909-1910
20 651-652 “Hartsville, South Carolina: Reminiscences of its Early History,” [undated]
653 “History of the Black Creek Church,” [undated]
654 “History of the Darlington Rifles,” [undated]
655-656 “History of Society Hill,” 1910
23 725 Manuscripts, [undated] 20 657 “Memories of Society Hill, SC,” 1910 Series III. Personal (continued)
Box Folder Date 23 726 Old Ebenezer Church, 1909
20 658-659 “Recollections of Southern Plantation Life,” 1876
23 727 Untitled, [undated]
BV* Ledgers, 1882-1904, 1885-1894
Legal:
728 Contracts, 1889-1910
Legal, continued
24 729 Court Cases, 1893, [and undated]
24 730 Petitions, 1873-1908
20 660-669 Memorials, [undated]
24 731 “Memories of the War with Mexico,” 1910
21 Minutes:
670 Santee Baptist Association, 1912
671 Welsh Neck Baptist Association, 1910-1914
672-673 Miscellaneous, [undated]
24 732 Newspaper Clippings, ca. 1800-1947
21 674 Pamphlets, Jury Reform, 1915
675 Pee Dee Historical Association, [undated]
676 Handwritten Notes, [undated]
24 733 Member Lists, [undated]
734 Petition for Position of State Senator, ca. 1906
Publications:
677 Confederate States Navy, by W. F. Clayton, 1910
Confederate Veterans
678-679 v. XVIII n. 4-5 April-May 1910
680-683 v. XX n. 1, 7-8, 10 January, July-August, October 1912
* BV indicates loose bound volume Series III. Personal (continued)
Box Folder Date 24 684-686 v. XXI n. 4, 6, 11 April, June, November 1913
687 v. XXIII n. 9 September 1915
688 v. XXIV n. 1 January 1916
22 689 Education, [undated]
690 The History of Company B, 21st Regiment, by Henry Kershaw Dubose, 1909
Publications, continued
22 691 History of Company E. 6th Regiment, by J. L.Coker, 1899
24 BV A History of Marion County, South Carolina by, W. W. Sellers, 1902
22 692 A History of Marlboro County, South Carolina, by J. A. W. Thomas, 1897
24 BV Kershaw’s Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert, 1899
22 693 The Plant Life of Hartsville, South Carolina, by W. C. Coker, 1912
694 Seward and the Declaration of Paris, by Charles Francis Adams, 1912
695 Sketches and Reminiscences, by Joshua Hilary Hudson, 1903
24 BV Water Power in North Carolina, by George F. Swain et al., 1899
22 696 The World’s Work, v. XXIV July 1912
OS* Soil Map of Darlington County, SC, [undated]
22 697-698 Speeches, 1908, 1939
699 Story from “The Working Christian,” 1910
* OS indicates oversized folder