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Has 2 ancestors and 32 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Jacob Coon |
| Birth |
17 Oct 1853 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  |
| Christening |
1854 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Gender |
Male |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
3 Jan 1876 |
EHOUS |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWCN-3S3 |
| Death |
15 Dec 1885 |
Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Burial |
17 Dec 1885 |
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I128 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Abraham Coon, b. 3 Apr 1810, New London, Huron, Ohio, United States d. 28 Mar 1885, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 74 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Elizabeth Wilson, b. 19 Feb 1827, Montgomery, Scott, Tennessee, United States d. 2 Jul 1856, Carson Valley, Douglas, Nevada, United States (Age 29 years) |
| Marriage |
11 May 1846 |
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States |
| Family ID |
F131 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Mary Hannah Hirst, b. 12 Jan 1843, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England d. 29 Aug 1860 (Age 17 years) |
| Marriage |
1860 |
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England |
| Family ID |
F112 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
| Family 2 |
Sarah Hirst, b. 29 Jul 1857, Longwood, Yorkshire, England d. 27 Nov 1911, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 54 years) |
| Marriage |
3 Jan 1876 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| + | 1. Annabelle Coon, b. 26 Oct 1877, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 21 Oct 1975, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 97 years) |
| | 2. Jacob Ervin Coon, b. 10 Oct 1879, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 11 Oct 1945, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 66 years) |
| + | 3. Melissa Sarah Coon, b. 23 Dec 1881, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 27 Aug 1906, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 24 years) |
| + | 4. Jessie Coon, b. 8 Aug 1883, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 30 May 1963, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 79 years) |
| + | 5. Jane Ellen Coon, b. 20 Nov 1885, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 27 Jan 1961, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 75 years) |
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| Family ID |
F129 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 17 Oct 1853 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Christening - 1854 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Marriage - 1860 - Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 3 Jan 1876 - EHOUS |
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| Marriage - 3 Jan 1876 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Death - 15 Dec 1885 - Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Burial - 17 Dec 1885 - Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Notes |
- JACOB COON
Written by Annabelle Coon Thomas, a daughter; copied from Heritage of t h e Abraham Coon Family.
Jacob Coon, my father, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 17, 185 4 , a son of Abraham Coon and Mary Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilson. His mother , Ma ry Elizabeth Wilson, was born on February 19, 1828, in Montgomery Co unty , Tennessee. Betsy Wilson was the third wife of Abraham Coon.
Jacob Coon married Sarah Hirst of Pleasant Green on January 3, 1876 in t h e old Endowment House in Salt Lake City. My mother came to this countr y f rom England at the age of eight years with her parents.
They became the parents of one son and four daughters. They made their h o me in the southwest corner of Pleasant Green Ward (in Coonville) .
Father did farming and stock raising. He also had a large herd of shee p . He was very fond of nice large horses. He had a sorrel team which h e pr ized very highly. They were admired by all who saw them. I can remem ber t he names he gave them – Babe and Dex.
Father was a Seventy in the Priesthood. He was MIA President in the Plea s ant Green Ward and did ward teaching, going on horseback in the evenin g s as houses were so few and so scattered. He did confirmations and bles si ngs and he named some of us children, along with others in the Coon fa mil y. H e observed the Word of Wisdom.
Father loved to ride and break in wild horses for people. They all sai d t hat there was no horse that could throw Jake Coon; he was such an exc elle nt rider. However, one afternoon as he was riding a wild horse, it r eare d up straight and then fell backwards on Father. The horn of the sad dle c rushed his shoulder and arm and caused internal injury. This was th e caus e of his death a year later. He died on December 15, 1885, at th e age o f thirty one. He was buried in the Pleasant Green Cemetery.
His father, Abraham Coon, died nine months before my father. His death w a s also caused by the same type of accident. My father’s mother, Mary El iz abeth Wilson Coon, died July 2, 1856, in Carson Valley, Nevada, wher e he r husband was on a mission. Father was only two years old. He baby s ister , Mary Elizabeth, was six months old. The other three children of A braha m and Elizabeth Wilson Coon were Edna Jane, Isaac, and Laura, who d ied yo ung. Grandfather’s first wife, Elizabeth Yarbrough Coon, with hi s fourt h wife, Sarah Curtis Coon, helped raise the children.
After my father’s death my mother was left a widow with five little chil d ren to raise alone. I was eight; my brother Ervin, six; Sarah Melissa , fo ur; Jessie, three; and Jane Ellen (Nellie) was three weeks old. Soo n afte r this, Mother moved down close to the Pleasant Green meeting hous e. We l ived there until January 1898 when we moved to Salt Lake City.
In October 1911 Mother became ill and she wanted Father’s remains move d t o the Salt Lake Cemetery where she desired they both be buried. The m orti cian, Joseph William Taylor, was consulted. Joseph said he was afrai d the re would only be the skeleton there, but he consented to take a bo x an d a casket to see what he could do. He and two helpers, with my brot her E rvin, went up to the cemetery. Otto Larson as the sexton at this ti me, an d he and U Uncle Isaac Coon, my father’s brother, and a brother-in -law, W illiam Jenkins, all opened the grave. There was only the outer ro ugh bo x in poor condition. The inner hardwood coffin they used in thos e days wa s in perfect condition, and so was the corpse. The mortician sa id there w as no moisture in the ground and it was so hard and so dry tha t it was ju st petrified. We were all amazed that it was so perfect afte r twenty-si x years of burial.
Three weeks after Father’s remains were interred in the city cemetery, M o ther passed away, November 27, 1911, at the age of fifty-four. Both ar e l ying side by side in Salt Lake in the Sale Lake City Cemetery. Both o f m y parents died young in life.
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