Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Coon, John 1908
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The Lyons Herald, Friday, October 1, 1908


The death angel again visited Lyons last Thursday at about 7 o’clock and 
claimed another of our residents, Major John Coon.  For months Mr. Coon had 
been in poor health, and at other times, his death had been expected.  

John Coon was born in York State in 1822.  As a young man he attended Yale 
college and was one of its oldest living graduates.  He made law his 
profession and for many years was a successful attorney.  During the War of 
the Rebellion he served his country faithfully, part of the time in the 
capacity of a quartermaster.

Mr. Coon was twice married.  Some years after his first wife died, he married 
Mrs. Verona Hawley of Lyons, the marriage taking place at the home of Mrs. 
Coon’s mother, “Grandma Coon,” in the year 1893, the Rev. Wm. Judd, at that 
time pastor of the Methodist Church, officiating.  They were gone from Lyons 
for some years, but returned a few years ago and have made their home since in 
a part of the same building with Mrs. Coon’s sister, Mrs. Lydia Barnard.

Major Coon was quiet and gentlemanly, and to those people of our village with 
whom he became acquainted, was held in high esteem.  

A short service consisting of the reading of a portion of scripture by Rev. 
Powell and prayer by Rev. Judd was held at the home Friday afternoon.  His 
remains were then taken to Cleveland, O., where the interment took place 
Monday.  Besides his wife he leaves a son by the first marriage, with other 
relatives to mourn his demise.


Subsequent Publication:  The Lyons Herald, Friday, October 8, 1908

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer

Word was received yesterday of the death in Lyons, Mich. of John Coon, for 
sixty years one of Cleveland’s leading attorneys.  Mr. Coon was eighty-six 
years old.

Paymaster on the regular army on the general staff with the rank of Major, 
under special commission of President Lincoln, secretary to Thomas Ewing….
(illigible)….secretary of the interior, secretary of the state Republican 
central committee, city solicitor and city clerk, embrace part of the range of 
Mr. Coon’s public services.

Well known among all the older residents of Cleveland, Major Coon was a great 
friend of the late Leonard Case, and a member of the picturesque social and 
historical club known as the “Ark,” of which Ned P. Schield and James Tracy 
are now the only survivors.

Mr. Coon was a graduate of Yale of the class of 1847, and was a college mate 
of Chauncey Depew and member with him of “Skull and Bones,” the famous senior 
society.

On returning to Cleveland after the war, Mr. Coon took up private practice 
being in partnership at different times with Francis J. Wing, ex-judge of 
circuit court and John P. Sullivan.  He did not retire from active practice 
until he was past eighty.  The dead lawyer was one of the pioneer street 
railway men of Cleveland, being associated with Joseph Stanley in the 
launching of the Broadway and Newburg railway.  He retained an interest in 
traction matters until recent years.

From 1892 to 1894 Mr. Coon was in Colorado looking after the interests of 
Cleveland capitalists and the Selah Chamberlain estate.  A few years ago he 
removed with his wife to Lyons, Mich., where he had since made his home.  He 
leaves one son, John Coon Jr.


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