Obit of Coon, Douglas S. (c500) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 24 Apr 2002 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Coon, Hackney, Seago, Tunnell, Lucas, Wells Douglas S. Coon was born June 24, 1861, in Missouri. He passed from this life on November 19, 1956, in Cheyenne, Oklahoma, at the age of 95 years. On December 27, 1886 he was united in marriage to Laura Ellen Hackney, who preceded him in death on September 27, 1954. To this union seven children were born. All are living except one son, Ira, who died in 1906. Those survivng are Jennie Seago and Mrs. Hugh Tunnell, both of Cheyenne, Mrs. John Lucas, Durham, Mrs. Alex Wells, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Virgil R. Coon, Billings, Montana, and Ralph Coon of Crawford. Twenty-one grandchildren and twenty-three great grandchildren also survive. Mr. Coon and his family moved to Roger Mills County, locating on a homestead near Crawford in 1901, where the family resided for many years. In those early days Mr. Coon was active in the organization and maintaining of schools and churches. He later moved to Cheyenne where he made his home for a number of years. In his early life he became a member of the Church of Christ to which he remained loyal to the end. Funeral services were held in the Church of Christ in Cheyenne Wednesday afternoon with J.M. Gilpatrick and C.W. Rhodes, officiating ministers. Committal was in the Cheyenne Cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the directionof Scroggins Funeral Home. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html