Upon taking the vote the body declared Daniel COKER bishop-elect; but for several reasons he resigned the next day in favor of Richard Allen, who was elected on the 10th and consecrated the following day by regularly ordained ministers.
"The History of the Negro Church"
Carter Godwin Woodson
I heard Dick Disney ask COKER what he would take for his lower eighty, and COKER said he would take sixteen hundred dollars for it.
"Tales and Trails of Wakarusa"
Alexander Miller Harvey