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Earl Jay Coon

Earl Jay Coon

Male 1892 - 1965  (72 years)


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  • Name Earl Jay Coon  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Birth 30 Aug 1892  Richland, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 13 Apr 1965  [3] 
    Person ID I35981  Stewartsny
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

    Father Oren Peter Coon,   b. 28 Mar 1865, Richland, Oswego County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Oct 1941, Pulaski, Oswego County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Alice Lillian West,   b. 21 Aug 1871, Orwell, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jul 1949 (Age 77 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 2 Sep 1891  [5] 
    Family ID F10892  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Edna Mae Rhoan,   b. 1890, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Kathryn Alice Coon
    Family ID F11570  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

    Family 2 Harriet Ellis,   b. Abt 1886, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Aug 1964 (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage 12 Jul 1936 
    Family ID F11569  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, April 15, 1965 Pulaski Democrat - Earl J. Coon, Watertown, Dies - Earl J. Coon, 72, of Dry Hill Road, Watertown, died Tuesday morning at the Good Samaritan Hospital where he had been a patient since march 29. He had been in ill health about six weeks. Surviving are a brother, Harold W. Coon of Fulton, nephews, nieces and cousins. His wife, Mrs. Harriett Middleton Coon died last Aug. 8. Their marriage took place July 12, 1936. Funeral services will be held Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Reed & Benoit Funeral Home with the Rev. Richard Prue, pastor of the Baptist Church at Black River, officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery at Sandy Creek. Mr. Coon was born at Pulaski, Aug. 30, 1892, a son of Oren F. and Alice L. West Coon. The early part of his life was spent at Pulaski where he was educated in the local schools. He served in the army for about one year of W. W. I. and was a bugler at Augusta, Ga. After the war he was an inspector for Brown, Lipe & Chapin Gear Co., of Syracuse. A salesman most of his life, he later sold paper products and household appliances throughout the Pulaski area and later was a Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. agent at Pulaski. Mr. and Mrs. Coon moved to Watertown in August 1937 where he became an office secretary of the Y.M.C.A. to succeed William C. Bangert who retired at that time. Mr. Coon served at the Y.M.C.A. for a few years and then became a salesman in the store of James R. Miller Clothing Co. For the past few years he had been a shoe salesman for himself representing two shoe manufacturing firms. They moved to Dry Hill road in 1950.

  • Sources 
    1. [S150] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Watertown, Jefferson, New York; Roll: T627_2546; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 23-78.

    2. [S154] Ancestry.com, U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Registration State: New York; Registration County: Oswego; Roll: 1818707; Draft Board: 3.

    3. [S20] Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Number: 085-14-3612; Issue State: New York; Issue Date: Before 1951.

    4. [S151] Ancestry.com, U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;).

    5. [S29] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Richland, Oswego, New York; Roll: 1144; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 0142; FHL microfilm: 1241144.