Fayette County KyArchives Obituaries.....Coons, Mary Ellen Ryan July 5, 1939 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Ashby Girard maricana1973@gmail.com January 31, 2007, 11:22 pm The Lexington Herald July 6, 1939 Page 10 Col. 5 Long Illness Fatal to Mrs. Mary Coons Mrs. Mary Ellen Ryan Coons wife of Josiah Coons, widely known farmer and landowner, died at 12:25 o'clock yesterday afternoon at her home on the Tates Creek pike after a long illness which resulted from an injury suffered in a fall a year ago. A native of Bath County, Mrs. Coons was a daughter of the late Hugh and Catherine Hamilton Ryan. She attended schools at Owingsville and moved to Fayette county 30 years ago. She was a member of the Providence Christian church Beside her husband, her survivors include two daughters, Mrs. A.C. Downing and Mrs. T. L Hardman of Fayette county three sons, Hugh Emmett Coons and J. Claude Coons of Fayette county and Thomas Coons of Frankfort two sisters, Miss Anna H. Ryan of Lexington and Mrs. Coleman Williams of Newman, Calif, a brother, Mathew Ryan of Middletown, Ohio , ten grandchildren, Miss Ethel Byrd of Mt Sterling, Joe Coons Hardman, Hugh Ryan Hardman, James Coons Downing, Lieut Kenneth Downing and Thomas Downing all of Fayette County: Frank Coons, El Paso, TX, Mrs. Virginia Byrd Coons of Frankfort and Mrs. Dudley Sisk of Silver Springs, MD., and four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at the residence, the Rev. Stephen Osborne, pastor of the Providence Christian church of Jessamine county, and the Rev. Howard Baxter, former pastor of the church, officiating. Burial will be in the Lexington cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/fayette/obits/c/coons3560gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/