James Morgan Coker and Susie Pruett Coker had four children, only one of whom lived beyond early childhood (Summer Dee). Susie died in Hillsboro in Limestone County (?) in 1899. Susie and three children were buried in Fairview Cemetery in Hillsboro (?). J.M. Coker and S.D. (a young boy) moved to Seminole in Gaines County for a new start. They farmed, ranched and raised paint horses. J.M. and S.D. contributed their own land in Gaines County to build a school and it was named Fairview.
J.M. remarried Miss Bea Walker and had three more children. The story says that Bea kicked S.D. (age 13) out of the family home for drinking buttermilk that she had saved to use for a cake. This ended S.D.'s schooling and he became responsible for earning his own living. He worked a variety of jobs, including a short time for Mr. Tom Ross, an outlaw whose real name was Hill Loftus and who, along with his accomplice, later served time for murdering a cattle inspector who'd accused him of cattle rustling. J.M. and Bea divorced; Bea remarried.
In WWI the Army drafted S.D. and sent him to Europe (Nancy, France and Koblenz, Germany). He was part of a supply train, possibly in the 90th Division "T.O" Tough Ombres (Texas/Oklahoma). At the close of the war he returned to Gaines County and married Eunice Thompson, my grandmother, the eldest of seven children.
J.M. remarried Miss Bea Walker and had three more children. The story says that Bea kicked S.D. (age 13) out of the family home for drinking buttermilk that she had saved to use for a cake. This ended S.D.'s schooling and he became responsible for earning his own living. He worked a variety of jobs, including a short time for Mr. Tom Ross, an outlaw whose real name was Hill Loftus and who, along with his accomplice, later served time for murdering a cattle inspector who'd accused him of cattle rustling. J.M. and Bea divorced; Bea remarried.
In WWI the Army drafted S.D. and sent him to Europe (Nancy, France and Koblenz, Germany). He was part of a supply train, possibly in the 90th Division "T.O" Tough Ombres (Texas/Oklahoma). At the close of the war he returned to Gaines County and married Eunice Thompson, my grandmother, the eldest of seven children.
