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A feature in The Herald-Advocate (Wauchula, Fla.), June 3, 1999, 2-B, shows illegible photograph of Jonathan Coker, born Feb. 26, 1826, Georgia, died Aug. 15, 1878, Manatee County, buried just southwest of Horse Creek, husband of Mary S. Coker. He had been cowhunting and swimming his horse across Horse Creek.

According to an internet posting, which I can’t verify, Jonathan Coker was born February 26, 1826, Telfair County, Georgia. In Madison County, Florida on September 16, 1847, he married. Mary Serene Hicks, born October 8, 1834, Thomas County, Georgia, with no date of death listed.

Mr. Hancock died August 24, 2001. His obituary in The Herald-Advocate of August 30, 2001, page 8B, read in part:

"Born Oct. 1, 1928, in Sebring, he was a 1946 graduate of Sebring High School, a 1950 graduate of Duke University in Durham, N.C., and a graduate of the University of Florida College of Law. He practiced law in Sebring until 1993, and was a citrus grower. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Korean Conflict, was a member of the First Baptist Church of Sebring, Sebring Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow. He was a lifetime member of Sebring Little League and a former member of the Board of New Testament Mission and Sebring Historical Society.
"Survivors are his wife of 50 years, Jean Durrance Hancock; three children, Susanne Clemons and husband Pete of Okeechobee, Jane Hancock Brooks of Tampa and Ned Hancock and wife Tammy of Sebring; and five grandchildren, Andy and Charlie Joughlin of Tampa and Marti, Alison and Savannah Hancock of Sebring.
"Memorial services were Monday, Aug. 27, at 4 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Sebring. Visitation was Sunday, Aug. 26, 6-8 p.m., at Morris Funeral Chapel in Sebring..."