Joseph was born in 1917 in Halifax County, North Carolina. He was the son of Ivy Coker and Maggie Mae Pridgen.
He was married twice. He married his first wife, Lillian Margaret Johnson in 1937 in Richmond, Virginia. They had one daughter together. They divorced in 1945 in Richmond.
He married his second wife, Blonni Mae Hodges in 1949 in Greensville County, Virginia She brought a daughter from a previous marriage.
He passed away in 1979 in Emporia, Virginia, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum in Henrico County, Virginia.
"Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVB1-D76S : 20 February 2021), Joseph Solomon Coker and Lillian Margaret Johnson, 20 Mar 1937; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing Richmond, , Virginia, United States, certificate 4444, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.
Joseph S Coker in the Virginia, U.S., Divorce Records, 1918-2014, Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia Divorce Records, 1918-2014, Ancestry Record 9280 #2198563
"Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9F-PR15 : 20 February 2021), Joseph S Coker and Blonni Hodges Smith, 20 Aug 1949; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing , Greensville, Virginia, United States, certificate 20886, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J1SQ-2JS : 8 January 2021), Joseph Coker, Jul 1979; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
"Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBV-73BT : 16 August 2019), Joseph Solomon Coker, 05 Jul 1979; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing Emporia, Greensville, Virginia, United States, entry #, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194614152/joseph-solomon-coker: accessed 06 August 2023), memorial page for Joseph Solomon Coker (14 Jun 1917–5 Jul 1979), Find A Grave: Memorial #194614152, citing Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum, Henrico County, Virginia, USA; Maintained by RR (contributor 49002563).
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