Alice Coit

b. circa 1877, d. 30 January 1958
  • Alice Coit was born circa 1877 in South Carolina.
  • Lena (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Society Hill Township, Darlington County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Alice Coit. Also in the household were children Henry (age 16), Mary (14), Joseph (6) and Peter (5) and Charles (4). In the next household is Robert Coit (21), likely another son.
  • She married Elliott Bostic, son of Joe Bostic and Dinah (?), circa 1899.
  • Elliott Bostic and Alice Coit appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Smithville Township, Marlboro County, South Carolina. Also in the ousehold was Carrie Coit (age 5.)
  • Elliott Bostic and Alice Coit appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Smithville Township, Marlboro County, South Carolina, at Rockingham & Cheraw. Other members of the household included Jessie Jackson Bostic. Also in the household were nephew and niece Charley (age 13) and Polly (11) Coit.
  • Elliott Bostic registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Marlboro County, South Carolina, while living with his wife Alice in Kollock, employed there as a cropper by Sarius Pegues.
  • Alice Coit and Elliott Bostic appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Smithville Township, Marlboro County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Jessie Jackson Bostic. Also in the household was adopted daughter Polly Coit (age 19.)
  • She was working on the farm, according to the 1920 census.
  • Alice Coit became a widow at the between 1920 and 1930 death of her husband Elliott Bostic.
  • Jessie Jackson Bostic and Lula Kollock Douglas appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in New Hope, Marlboro County, South Carolina, at Pegues Estate Plantation Road enumerated next to the household of widow Jennie Pegues. Other members of the household included Alice Coit, James Edward Bostic. Also in the household were children Dewey (age 3) and Helen (1), brother John J. Bostic (23) and niece Thelma Bostic (5.)
  • Jessie Jackson Bostic and Lula Kollock Douglas appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in New Hope, Marlboro County, South Carolina, enumerated next to Lula's mother Marsha Douglas. Other members of the household included Alice Coit, James Edward Bostic. Also in the household were children Dewey (age 13), Helen (11), Hilliard (3) June (5) and Carolyn (3 months.)
  • Alice Coit died on 30 January 1958.
  • She was interred at Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery, Wallace, Marlboro County, South Carolina.
  • Last Edited: 22 Apr 2015

Family: Elliott Bostic b. circa 1876, d. between 1920 and 1930