Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Coon, Ezra June 30, 1814 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

EZRA COON, famer, section 7, Big Prairie Township, was born June 30, 1814, in 
Malta, Saratoga Co., N.Y.  

His father, Jeremiah Coon, was of English lineage and was born i the town of 
Half Moon, Saratoga Co., 

N.Y., Aug. 31, 1785, and his mother, Sally (Talmage) Coon, was a native of 
Malta, born about 1791, of 

English parentage.

Mr. Coon came to Michigan in 1833 and stayed one year at Trenton, Wayne 
County.  Then he returned to his 

native State and remained until 1837, when he again came to Michigan and 
prepared for a permanent 

settlement, by the purchase of 80 acres of land at Gibraltar, Wayne County, 
where he was interested in 

farming until 1847, when he sold his farm and removed to Branch County.  He 
was a resident of Coldwater, 

about 30 years, and in 1878 came to Newaygo County.  He bought his homestead 
of 87 1/4 acres of land and 

has since given his time and energies to its cultivation and improvement. He 
is an adherent of the 

principles and issues of the National party.

Caroline (Parks) Coon was born at Chatham, Columbia Co., N.Y., Jan. 2, 1824.  
She is the daughter of James 

H. and Sally (Rowland) Parks, both of whom were natives of New York.  The 
father was born in 1793 and died 

Aug. 10, 1865.  The mother was born about 1803, and died Sept. 19, 1876, in 
Lyons, Wayne Co., N.Y., where 

her husband died a few years earlier.  Mr. and Mrs. Coon were married June 28, 
1843, in lYons, and have 

been the parents of four children.  They are James T., Frank P. and Willis 
Fitch, living.  Ada W., only 

daughter and third child, is deceased.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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