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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