1 EMPL
2 NOTE Northwestern National Fire Insurance Company
1 EMPL
2 PLAC Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
2 NOTE Burdick Corporation - President


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Milton Junction Cemetery

1 NOTE "The Descendants of Robert Burdickof Rhode Island"; by NellieW. Johnson; The Syracuse Typesetting Co., Syracuse,NY; 1937, p683.

"Milton Junction Telephone", Thursday, 8 Sep 1938, p 1.
George Wells Coon, 84, retired special agent for theNorthwestern National Fire Insurance company, died Saturdaynight at his home in Milton Jct. Although he hadbeen infailing health several years, he was confined to his bed justone week.
Funeral services were held at 4 p. m. Monday in the Milton Jct.S. D. B. church, Dr. Edwin Shaw, Milton, a distant cousin,officiating. Burial was in Milton Jct. cemetery. Pallbearerswere his five sons, Ross C., Wallace W., Carroll, Clarance, andLawrence and his only surviving nephew, Prof. Fay. B. Coon ofMilton and West Allis.
Attending the funeral, those not previously mentioned includeMr. and Mrs. A. E. Webster and Paul, River Forest, Ill; Mr. andMrs. Merle Deardorff and two children, Brookfield, Ill.; Mrs. W.W. Coon and Beverly, Walworth; Mr. and Mrs. Loraine Coon,Monroe; Lois Coon, Milwaukee; Mrs. Carroll Coon and daughter,Madison; Phillip Coon and daughter, Beaver Falls, Pa; Mr. andMrs. ChesterMiller, Evansville; F. M. Britt and family and Mrs.Walter Harte, Janesville.
George Wells Coon was born July 27, 1854, at Ashaway, RhodeIsland. (His ancestor, Dr. John Mac Coone had come to RhodeIsland from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in1660.) He was theyoungest of three children of Lafayette Coon and Mary WellsCoon. When he was six years old the family moved to Utica,Wis., coming to Milton Junction later.
Mr. Coon was married to Adelle May Whitford May 3, 1882. Fivechildren were born to them: Ross C. Coon; Lillian; now Mrs. A.E. Webster of River Forest, Ill,; Dr. W. W. Coon of Walworth;Nina, who became Mrs. Fred Burdick and who died Oct. 10, 1918;and Carroll L. Coon of Madison. Mrs. Coon died June 14, 1897,when Carroll was a small child.
On June 22, 1898, Mr. Coon marriedGrace Amelia Clark who withtheir three children, Marion, now Mrs. Merle Deardorff ofBrookfield, Ill., Clarence Coon of Milwaukee and Lawrence Coonof New Holstein, and fourteen grandchildren, survives.
Mr. Coon was an enterprising business man and citizen. Asidefrom his work with the Northwestern National Fire Insurancecompany, with which he was connected for 35 years, he was thefirst president of the Burdick Cabinet company, now the Burdickcorporation. He was a director of the Milton and MiltonJunction Telephone company and he was a member andpresident ofthe Milton Junction school board, from 1909-1915.
He was affiliated with the Du Lac lodge, I. O. O. F. of Milton,and was a charter member of theMilton Jct. camp of M. W. A. Asa young man he was a member of the Utica band.
Throughout his life he was a loyal and consistent member andsupporter of theSeventh Day Baptist Church.

Gravestone photo 9 May 2002

1. 2. Marion COON   b. 7 Jul 1899; d. 9 Feb 1999, Raymondville,Willacy Co.,Texas.
2. 3. Clarence COON  
3. 4. Lawrence COON  

1 NOTE of Brookfield, Illinois in her father's 1938 obituary

1 NOTE of Milwaukee in his father's 1938 obituary

1 NOTE of New Holstein in his father's 1938 obituary