Hays County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Kone, Samuel Reid 
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Cemetery:           Pitts Cemetery
Name:               Samuel Reid Kone

Date Of Photograph: July 6, 2005
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Samuel Reid Kone was born on October 2, 1820 in Dutch Fork, South Carolina.  
His mother was Mary Ann "Polly" DuPree who at age 16 married the much older 
Joseph Koon who was an architect working on the South Carolina Statehouse.  
Polly Dupree's wealthy family was against the union and disowned her.  Soon 
after Samuel's birth, his father was killed and Polly went to live with her 
brother, Lewis DuPree.  They later moved to Georgia and joined the Pitts' 
Caravan to Texas in the 1840's.  Samuel became a business partner with John 
Pitts and signed a number of land documents in Georgia as "Samuel Reid Koon." 
When they left the United States during the depression of the 1840's (Koon and 
Pitts oweing a great deal of money to a number of people in Georgia), they 
headed to Texas to start a new life.  Polly Koon later married a blind 
Methodist minister by the name of Ogletree.  The families settled on some land 
in Grimes County and the family cemetery on the "plantation" there still has 
the graves of Polly, Lewis and other members of the Koon-Dupree Family. Upon 
entering the Republic of Texas, Samuel changed his name to "Kone" and married 
John Pitts' daughter, Sylvira Rebecca.  Within a few years, they resettled in 
Hays County where descendants of Samuel and Sylvira Rebecca Pitts Kone live 
today. Samuel Reid Kone served in the Texas cavalry and died in 1877 of the 
wounds he received in the Civil War.

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