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Elmwood Memorial Park is a cemetery located in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, United States. It has in excess of 30,000 interments. It has in excess of 30,000 interments. The first burials at this cemetery took place in 1946.
The Coker Community was founded in 1841 by John Coker (1789–1851) on 1,920 acres (7.8 km 2) of land he had been awarded for his service in the Texas Revolution. [1]James Harrison Coker (1827–1892), son of Joseph Coker, John Coker's brother, was the first teacher at the Coker School, and his daughter Sarah Jane Coker (1860–1930) was the midwife there.
Abilene Reporter-News downtown office. Abilene Reporter-News is a daily newspaper based in Abilene, Texas, United States. The newspaper started publishing as the weekly Abilene Reporter, helmed by Charles Edwin Gilbert, on June 17, 1881, just three months after Abilene was founded. It is hence the oldest continuous business in the city.
Robert Dean Hunter (1928–2023), member of Texas House of Representatives from Abilene, 1986–2007; Todd A. Hunter (born 1953), state representative, 1989–1997, 2009–present; Thad Hutcheson (1915–1986), Houston lawyer and Republican politician; Kay Bailey Hutchison (born 1943), first woman U.S. Senator from Texas, 1993–2013
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Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions (formerly the Aurora Casket Company) is one of the largest manufacturers of caskets and funerary urns in the United States, selling over 38% of the country's caskets as of 2005. The Aurora, Indiana–based company is a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based Matthews International.
Abilene (/ ˈ æ b ɪ l iː n / AB-i-leen) is a city in Taylor and Jones counties, Texas, United States.Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census. [9] It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 176,579 as of 2020. [10]
John Coker may refer to: John "Jack" Coker (soldier) (1789–1861), soldier in the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution John Coker (clergyman) (died 1631/35), Anglican clergyman and misidentified author