Coon Family Cemetery
Wilkinson County, MS
You should have come to this page from my introductory page to my Coon/Kuhn ancestors. If not, here's a link to that page.
In October 2010 my wife and I visited this cemetery. We were accompanied by three distant relatives of mine:
- Jerome Wall. Jerome and I share the same
great-great-grandparents, Robert Riley Richardson (1813-1874) and Mary E.
Wells Hatfield (1820 – 1891).
- They had ten children, two of whom were Edward Everett Richardson (1857 – 1925) and Reverdy Hunter Richardson (1864 – 1916).
- These two brothers married Coon sisters – E.E.R. married Alice C. Coon and R.H.R. married Martha “Mattie” Coon.
- E.E.R. had a daughter, Lee Richardson, who married ??? Wall. They had several children and Jerome is the son of one of those. He is grandson of ??? Wall and Lee Richardson; great-grandson of E.E. Richardson and Alice Coon; great-great-grandson of Robert Riley Richardson and Mary E. Wells Hatfield.
- Charles Clark; his mother was Helen Coon Clark, an aunt of my grandfather, Clarence J. Richardson, whose mother was Martha "Mattie" Coon.
- Mable Clark; Charles' wife.
Here's a photo of us at the cemetery:
L to R: Jerome Wall; Joe Schlatter, Charles Clark, Mable Clark. The cemetery is to the left of this photo.
UPDATE: Charles "Sonny" Clark died in June 2013.
Here is a link to photos from the same cemetery that were made several years ago. The individual making these photos used chalk or flour to make the lettering stand out.
A few months before I visited the cemetery in October 2010, Charles and Mable Clark paid two men to clean brush from this cemetery. These two gents removed the headstones, took them to a carwash and washed them, then, re-set the stones on their original foundations.
Coon Family Cemetery, Coon's Mill Road, west of Woodville,
Wilkinson County, MS.
Coordinates: N 31 deg 08.505 min W 091 deg 12.373
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Close-up view of central monument. Each side of this
monument is engraved with the names and information of the people
buried in the Coon Family Cemetery. The inscriptions here
read: CHAS. A. COON MARTHA A. |
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MATTIE RICHARD H. The child, Richard H. Richardson, is a brother of my grandfather, Clarence J. Richardson ( 1896 - 1972 ). I note that the child Richard was born in August 1900 and died on 6 December 1900. His mother (my great-grandmother ) died six weeks later. 21 January 1901. I wonder if her death was related to this child's birth? Or, perhaps the two of them died from an illness. They died in the winter -- Dec 1900, Jan 1901 -- possibly of flu or another cold-weather illness |
Here are the separate headstones for Mattie Coon Richardson (my great-grandmother ) and her last child, Richard H. Richardson.
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My mother told me several times that her father, my grandfather, Clarence J. Richardson, sometimes spoke of a member of his family who died in infancy. She said Granddad referred to this child as "Little Willie." The family history material in my mother's possession included a small piece of paper cut into the shape of a small child's hand with the name "Willie" written on the hand. I have not found any child named "Willie" in my grandfather's family and I wonder if "Little Willie" is this child, Richard H. Richardson. HOWEVER -- also written on the small hand is the notation "13 months" -- Richard H. Richardson died at age 4 months, thus, he probably is not "Little Willie."
Coon Family Cemetery Photos -- Page Two