Phelps County MO Archives News.....John Burrfellows Coon, burned to death January 11, 1906 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Dimpfl mdimpfl@stny.rr.com February 15, 2010, 9:55 am The Bolivar Breeze, Vol. XV No. 20 , Boliver, New York January 11, 1906 Surname: Coon - Town: Cold Spring, Phelps County John Burrfellows Coon & Josephine Hooker Coon His death notice states he was a resident of Missouri for 20 years. He filed for a patent in 1887/issued 1889, states John Burrfellows Coon of Cold Spring, Phelps Co. Missouri John Coon, aged 58 years, and a former resident of Ceres, was burned to death recently by the destruction of his farm house in Missouri, of which he had been a resident for twenty years. He was born at Main Settlement and is survived by a wife and two daughters, besides two brothers, Eugene Coon of Ceres and Russell Coon of Ceres, and three sisters, Mrs. Emerette Maxson of Portville, Mrs. Joel Burdick of Main and Mrs. Emily Cummings of Little Genesee. Article from The Bolivar Breeze, Vol. XV No. 20 Thursday Jan. 11, 1906 page 1 column 5 Note: Ceres, and Main/Main Settlement, are in New York File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/phelps/newspapers/johnburr253gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb