Name: Joseph Crawford COONS
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Birth: 7 Aug 1831 Johnson Co, IN
Death: 20 Apr 1904 Bucklin, Ford Co, KS1
Burial: Bucklin, KS1
Father: Moses COONS (~1796->1870)
Mother: Abigail CRAWFORD (~1800-~1839)
Spouses:
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1: Nancy Anne WALKER
Birth: 6 Mar 1837 Nineveh Township, Johnson Co, IN
Death: 25 Nov 1908 Bucklin, Ford Co, KS
Burial: Bucklin, KS1
Father: Samuel WALKER (1817-1841)
Mother: Emerine Mead WILSON (1817-1889)
Marriage: 19 Feb 1852 Johnson Co, IN
Children: Mary Emerine (1853-1854)
Mahala Jane (1855-1892)
David Harrison (1858-1876)
Ida Alice (1860-1949)
Rosa Arabelle (1863-1947)
Samuel Edmond (1866-1906)
Mary Evalena Mead (1870-1959)
Carrie Elizabeth (1874-1959)
Mary Emelie (?) (1853-1854)
Notes for Joseph Crawford
COONS
1850
Did not find him in Johnson
Co., IN, and he wasn't living with his father either.
1860
Was living in the Marion Twp
of Jasper Co. IN. He was 32 and had
$400.00 in real estate and $500.00 in his personal estate. Joseph was living with his wife Nancy, two
children Mahala and David, and one unrelated person with no occupation
listed. This person was 21, born in
Ireland, and with a name that looked like John Openchani. Pages15/8292
1870
Living with six children and
Nancy in the Marion Twp of Jasper Co., IN.
Their post office was in Rennsselaer.
Joseph was working as a farmer and had $1295.00 in a personal estate and
nothing listed in real estate. This
parallels with Harrison Coons, for he had a large amount in his personal estate
and no real estate. If Moses died in
1875, it would be unlikely that it could be inheritance money on the Coons
side. Joseph would have acquired a
portion of Samuel Walker's estate when Emerine remarried. But why no real
estate at the age of 38? Was he saving
it for the trip to Kansas? According to
Dorothy Hughes, the reason for them coming to Kansas was their son Samuel's
tuberculosis. The children were Mahala
14, David 12, Ida 10, Rosa 9, Samuel 4, and Mary at three months. The four oldest were in school. Pages 11/3553
1880
Joseph was living with Nancy
and 6 children in the Barkley Twp of Jasper Co., IN. By this time David Harrison Coons was no longer alive. The children were Mahala J., Ida A., Rose
B., Samuel E., Mary E. and Carrie E.
Rosa Arabelle must have been shortened to Rosa Bell. Ida was a schoolteacher and Samuel was a
laborer on a farm. All but Mahala were
in school. By now David was no longer
alive. T9/286, Pages 267 A, E.D.60.4
1900
In 1900 he was living in the
Bucklin Township.
Sources
1. Tombstone, “Tombstone.”
2. “1860 Census.”
3. “1870 Census.”
4. “1880 census.”