Orange County Indexed
The Coker surname
The Coker name in Orange County Indexed: 8 people in the chronology and 3 headings in books and archives.
- In the chronology
- 1903 to 2017 8 people in 116 entries, most in the 1930s
- In books and archives
- 1 family heading and 2 people, born 1872 to 1876
- People with a page here
- R. E. Coker, William Chambers Coker
- Spellings to try
- Comer, Croker, Cooker, Cofer
- Search beyond these records
- Coker in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Coker there)
- Coker in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 8 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
- Coker, Louise V. 1 entry, 1984
- Coker, Louise Venable 1 entry, 1934
- Coker, R. E. 26 entries, 1922–1945
- Coker, R. E. 3 entries, 1922–1940
- Coker, Robert E. 1 entry, 1938
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Coker, W. C. 11 entries, 1920–1984
Show the 11 entries
- 1920-1935: Horace Williams holds the Kenan professorship of philosophy
- 1928 to 1929: Botanist Henry Roland Totten builds a Tudor Revival house on Laurel Hill Road
- October 1930 to January 1931: Texaco builds a service station at Franklin and Columbia after the town lets thirteen elms come down
- 1930s (after May 1931): The Dubose estate builds Colonial Revival tenant houses near the Durham County line
- April 17, 1931: The Daughters of the Confederacy plant a George Washington memorial elm at Spencer Hall
- by December 21, 1934: H. D. Carter finds 1934 Chapel Hill's leanest building year in fifteen years
- September 1935: A federal work-relief plan to rebuild the campus rock walls is stopped after protests
- 1953 to 1954: Milton Julian wins the right to build his modernist house on Ledge Lane
- September 17, 1956: Chapel Hill annexes 65 acres around Glenwood School at the request of the Chapel Hill Housing Group
- 1960 to 1961: Henry Roland Totten develops the first sections of Coker Hills
- March 26, 1984: UNC receives the late Louise V. Coker's four-acre estate on North Street
- Coker, William C. 3 entries, 1922–1954
- Coker, William Chambers 73 entries, 1903–2017
In books and archives 3 headings
Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.
- Coker family family, 1 work
- Coker, William Chambers, 1872-1953 7 works
- Coker, R. E. (Robert Ervin), 1876-1967 5 works
