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- Lafayette COON, the eleventh child of Samuel Hubbard
and Olive BROWN
- COON, was born in Brookfield, Madison county, N.Y.,
May 25, 1824, and died at Milton Junction, Wis., March 12, 1912,
being nearly 88 years of age. He experienced religion at the
age of fifteen years under the preaching of Rev. Samuel CRANDALL
and joined the Third Seventh Day Baptist church at Brookfield,
now West Edmeston. In 1844 he went to Ashaway, R.I., and in
1857 he removed to Wisconsin. He made his home in Utica until
1892 when he came to Milton Junction where he has since made
his home.
- In 1846 he married Mary C. WELLS of Waterford, Conn.,
and for more than sixty-
- five years they have lived happily together. To this union
were born three sons Edward D., Samuel H., and George W. Samuel
died some years ago, the other sons are both residents of our
village.
- The more active days of Mr. COON's maturer life were
spent at Utica, where he had
- the respect of his neighbors and fellow citizens. For about
sixteen years he was a member of the town board of Christiana,
and he was town treasurer for two years during war times. He
was also postmaster at Utica at one time.
- In conversation with him one breathed the atmosphere of pioneer
days which is ever a
- wholesome tonic to the thoughtful of the present generation.
Mr. COON was clean and strong in his personal habits
and character, patient and kind in his home and family, and honest
and trustworthy in business and public life. He was unassuming
in his religious life, but he always connected himself with the
church of his faith in the community in which he lived, being
a member of the Seventh-day Baptist church of this village at
the time of his death. He spoke often in his last days of the
goodness of the Lord to him. He enjoyed a long life here, and
has gone to enjoy the blessings of that better country of which
he has long been a citizen, leaving to mourn his loss the aged
wife who is one year his senior, his two sons, Edward and George,
and many other relatives and friends.
- Mr. and Mrs. Edward COON have untiringly administered
to the needs of this aged
- couple for their comfort. They will continue to care for
their mother.
- The funeral services were held from the home at 11:00 o'clock
Thursday morning, his
- pastor, Rev. A. J. C. Bond officiating. A mixed quartet
consisting of Mrs. F. L. BURDICK, Miss Winnie CRANDALL,
Dr. E. B. LOOFBORO and E. M. HOLSTON furnished
the music. The floral attributes betokened the respect and
esteem in which this aged citizen was held. The interment was
made in the Milton Junction cemetery. [Sourced as "The
Telephone," of Milton Junction, Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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