The following information was gathered during research on G.C. Coker who married Trecy/Tressie about 1877.

Tressie Ann was the daughter of John and Elmira (Overstreet) Blackedge. John Blackledge (said to be son of Zacharia & Mary Blackledge), was born about 1794 and died September 11, 1871 in Jones County, Mississippi. Elmira Overstreet was born about 1809 in Georgia and died before 1870 in Jones County, Mississippi.

Tressie Ann is the spelling used on her headstone but the name is also noted in census records as Trecy and Teressa. She first married Wiley Roberson (census spelling) and had a son Wiley Roberson (jr.) who was born 1863. No other information was noted regarding either Wiley Roberson or proof of first name for Wiley Sr.

By 1870, Tressie had married John Hodges, an apparent widower with six children. Her son Wiley Roberson, age 7, also appears in the Wayne County, MS census along with twins Eliza & William, age one. John Hodges was previously married to Mary Cynthia Blackledge, whose relationship to Tressie Blackledge, if any,is unknown but likely can be found. John was listed as 62 years of age and most likely died prior to 1877 when Tressie married Gallant C. Coker.

Gallant and Tressie were there parents of Joseph Napoleon Coker, born 1879 and Etta Leona Coker born 1882. J. Napoleon married Ella (possibly Blackledge) and had 7 children. Etta married Archie B. Walters and they had 9 children.

Trecy had a brother Zachariah, born ca 1830 who is said to have moved to Texas, joined the Confederate Army there and died in the Civil War October 1862 at Vicksburg.