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Below are appended are communications with several individuals through the Ancestry.com Web Site.
Dear JHtrem, I began my genealogical collecting pre computer, so I hand
copied this from the paper on micrfilm at
the Missouri State Historical Society Library in Columbia, Mo. and will paste below the
transcription. His wife, daughter
and son are also here. Oh I should have said he was great great grandfather to my husband.
We descend from his son William
Henry who is buried at the Old Sapulpa Cemt. Creek Co. Ok. Yes, I acquired a copy
of the Hobb's genealogy in the late
1980's from William Beck Coons of Wichita. Ks. "The Plaindealer"
Friday Aug. 25, 1911
Carl Junction,
Jasper Co. Mo. Samuel B. Coons Samuel B. Coons son of Major John R.
and Sarah Coons was born in St. Louis, Mo.
3/5/1831.
He grew to manhood in Potosi Wisconsin. He and Miss Georgiana
Rackerby married at Dabuque Iowa 10/18/1860.
To this union 3 children were born. William H. (decd.), Mrs. H. L. Isherwood, and J. B.
Coon. He died Mon. Aug. 21 at 11:20
age 80 yrs. 5 mos., 16 da.
He leaves to mourn, his wife, 1 daughter, 1 son, a sister at
Denver, 8 grandchildren, and
1 greatgrandchild. His only brother died about 2 years ago. Burial at Carl Junction
Cemetery. Sincerely,
Vicki
Piper
It appears that I am about to get a few new cousins. I am a descendant of John
Bradbury through his daughter Mary. She
married John W. Brinly Feb 29 1820 in Jefferson County, KY. They were my
g,g,g,grandparents. On 31 Jan 1832, Mary's brother
Henry Bradbury married John Brinly's sister Eve. John and Mary Brinly has three
children, two daughters and a son. The son,
Thomas Edward Coglan Brinly, married Jane McDowell on 14 FEB 1844 in Simpsonville,
KY. Their first child, John Lyle Brinly,
married Victoria Goodnight in Simpsonville,KY. Their first child, William Tingley Brinly
married Elizabeth Herbst in Louisville,
KY. They had two daughters and a son, William Marchal Brinly. He married Ruth Mary
Moore on 19 August 1930 in Louisville.
Thay are my parents. John Bradbury died in 1825 in Middletown, KY. and was
buried in the Middletown cemetery. In 1912
he was removed to the Masonic cemetery in Simpsonville, KY and buried next to his
daughetr Mary and her husband John W. Brinly.
Their two daughters are buried nearby. Jane McDowell, the first wife of Thomas E. C.
Brinly is also nearby as well as a number
of Jane McDowell's children. Henry and Eve Bradbury raised a number of childern
in Jefferson County, KY. The location
of their graves is at present, unknown. Bill Brinly
The John Bradbury I am refering to was born about 1772 in Staylebridge, a town 12
miles east of Manchester, England.
I visited there in 1995. He died in 1825 in Middletown KY. He was buried in the
Middletown cemetery, but, later moved to the
cemetery in Simpsonville, a few miles east of Middsletown. I have a picture of his tomb
stone if anyone is interested. Bill
Brinly
Vicki, To my knowledge, the cemetery is refered to as the Masonic Cemetery.
Years ago the records were kept by the local
barber. I have no idea where they are today. The cenetery is kept in good shape and there
are still burials there. Send me
your e-mail address and I will send you a picture of the tomb stone Bill Brinly.
Dear plowmankey,
It must be a matter of syntax then, the usgenweb does list a
Mason Cemetery in Shelby Co.? That would
be a wonderful project to enter the records of the cemetery on usgenweb.
My email is
pipervic(at)sbcglobal.net.
Thank
you!!
Sincerely,
Vicki Piper
Dear Jhtrem, Hobbs states they are buried there plus I spotted this listing of
cemeteries on the Grant Co. Wisc.
usgenweb site and wrote to the gen society for clarification of the name. Just as I suspected
it was a transcription error
and should have been Coons (last one listed in this township). Potosi Township
British Hollow
Van Buren
Old
Boice Creek-Hampton
Boice Prairie
Boice Creek-United Brethern
Kinney
Tennyson St. Andrew Cath. Old Dutch
Hollow
Tennyson St. Andrew Cath. New
Potosi St. Thomas Cath. New
Potosi St. Thomas Cath. Old
Osceola-Indian-Cooms-Hobbs Regarding
Samuel Berry Coons he is my husbands, gr grandfather and we visited and found his grave
a few years ago, I have his obit and
death cert. he died 8/21/1911. Sincerely,
Vicki Piper
Re: Anna Coons
Mona (View posts) Posted: 23 Aug 2000 2:11PM
Classification: Query
Surnames: Coons, Allen
I do not have an Anna Coons in my lineage charts. I have a Mary Ann Allen married
Henry Coons. Came to Fayette Co.,Kentucky
from Culpper Co., Virgina around 1790. He had 10 children. One was Joshua that really is
the start of my lineage. I do have
some of his ancesters information. Anna might be from one of the other 9 children.
Re: Coons family, Virginia > Kentucky > Indiana > Kansas
New
aarutka Posted: 12 Dec 2000 12:30PM
Surnames: Coons, Stieger, Schuster
We may be connected, I too am searching for
Coons,almost have a complete connection
to approx. 1500,
my coons came from germany 1709 moved to Virginia, then I think
went to Kentucky then to Indiana,(Redkey,
Jay County)
however, I cannot find a connection from John (Johannes) Coons to Jost,
his son I believe, Jost died in Virginia,
1794, Jost's mother is listed as Anna Gertrude Stieger, but, I also have a wife for John as
Elizabeth Schuster.
I am
wondering if you have any info on this.
Coons family New
Dean Coons Posted: 12 Dec 2000 1:53PM
Surnames: Coons
I think you are hoping for the
same connection that I am. Those names are part of the group that lived in Germanna. If
you haven't heard that name before,
type in Germanna in the address bar of your browser and it should pop up. They have quite
a lot of history on the Coons's.
You can email me at dcmarrs@worldnet.att.net
Maybe we can least find our
connection.
Kentucky Coons New
Mona Cooms Posted: 7 Feb 2001 1:26PM
Surnames: Coons, Allen, Countz
We inherited
a chart going back to 1690. The beginning reads- Henry Coons, married Mary Ann Allen,
came to Fayette County, Kentucky; from
Culpper County, Virginia 1790. Henry was a good mechanic. Among his ten children was
Joshua G., who starts this lineage chart.
Henry Coons father, Joseph Countz, was born in 1690 in Oldensburg, Germany. He came
to Virginia and was married in 1714. I
also have information about town called Jeffersonton that was started in1789 on land
belonging to our ancesster, Joseph Coons.
It is located 12 miles northeast of Culpepper Court House on Route #29. The Coons lineage
is very interesting. I have a lot
about them I would share if anyone is interested. Would like to hear if yours is the same as
ours. If you would like to email,
use this address, acoons@kscable.com or on the message board
Re: Kentucky Coons plowmanky Posted: 10 Jul 2010 1:06PM Classification: Query Surnames: Brinly, Bradbury,
Goodnight, Hoke In the book, "Cemeteries in Shelby County Kentucky"
published by the Shelby Co Historical Society
in 1979, it is listed as "Simpsonville Cemetery". The description given in the
book is as follows: "The cemetery
is located in Simpson ville, KY on the north side of U.S. 60. The Simpsonville
Cemetery was established in 1854. In that
year Johnson Lodge No. 82 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows purchased 2.8 acres
on the outskirts of town from James
Hughes. The Lodge operated the cemetery for about 25 years but eventually, probably
because of a decline in membership, the
chapter disbanded. In 1879, the property was transferred by the I.O.O.F. of Kentucky to
Wingate Lodge No. 161 of the F.&A.M.
The Masons have operated it as a community cemetery ever since." Bill
Brinly
Email Several things of interest. I, also, have a copy of Hobbs. I purchased it
on line as a reprint. I had missed
the Osceola reference in the cemetery location mentioned by Hobbs. Thank you for
pointing this out. My parents, brother
and I went to Potosi in the mid 1950's looking for family roots. I am sure my parents must
have made a collection of information
but I have yet to locate the files. Regardless I am trying to fit things together bit by
bit. To that end I have started
to place some records on line at JimTremmel.com. This is very much a NEW work in
progress but you are welcome to give a look.
I have a link to the text of Bradbury's Travels. And PFD's of the Hobbs text. I am
looking for the link between John
R. Coons and Henry and Mary Ann (Allen) Coons. Do you have anything on
this? Also, I am interested in your thoughts
on the genealogical information appended below. I note differences in date of birth of John
Bradbury. And most disconcerting
Sarah is reported here to have been born November 27, 1797. Not withstanding
these anomalies the genealogy does report
wife Elizabeth and well documented son John Leigh as well as other children. Nine in all
and two are reputed to have married
into the Binly family in Jefferson Co., Ky. You can link to the genealogy from
JimTremmel.com or directly at
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/i/s/Deanna-R-Fisher/GENE6-0006.html. Y
our
thoughts, Jim Tremmel 38. John Bradbury, born August 10, 1764 in
Lancashire, England; died 1823 in Shelby Co.,
Ky.. He was the son of 76. Edward Bradbury and 77. Elizabeth. He married 39. Elizabeth
Littisa Cogland? October 10, 1784 in
Manchester Cathedral, Lancashire, Eng..
Elizabeth Littisa Cogland?, died Aft. 1826 in
Ky.. She was the daughter of 78.
Edward Cogland.
Children of John Bradbury and Elizabeth Cogland?
are:
i. John Leigh Bradbury,
born March 10, 1785 in Stalybridge, Lancashire, Eng.
ii.
Edward Bradbury, born August 23, 1787 in Stalybridge,
Lancashire, Eng.; died 1864; married Mary Stetson.
iii.
Thomas Bradbury, born March 23, 1789 in Lancashire,
England; died March 19, 1800 in Lancashire, England.
iv.
Martha Bradbury, born February 03, 1791 in Lancashire,
England; died February 12, 1791 in Lancashire, England.
v.
Martha Bradbury, born March 07, 1792 in Lancashire,
England; married Thomas Edward Coghlan in Liverpool, England.
vi.
James Bradbury, born July 31, 1795.
vii. Sarah Bradbury, born November 27, 1797.
19
viii. Mary Bradbury, born March 03, 1799 in Manchester,
England; died August 09, 1856 in Shelby Co., Ky; married John W. Brinly March 02, 1820
in Middletown, Jefferson Co., Ky..
ix. Henry Preston Bradbury, born August 03, 1800 in England;
married Eva Brinly January 31, 1832 in Middletown,
Jefferson Co., Ky; born May 1809 in Ky.; died Bef. 1860 in Jefferson Co., Ky..
Email Dear JHT,
Regarding Major John
Coons connection to Henry I found this will
abstract on usgenweb and will paste it below: I think our John was a grandson.......
FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY
EARLY ESTATE RECORDS - ABSTRACTS
HENRY COONS - Will Book F,
page 135 - Mentions wife, Mary, son Samuel Coons and his
infant children, Pauline, Henry and Thomas M. Coons. Son, John Coons, deceased
and
heirs Jemima, Molly, Joshua, Susan,
James, Martin and Betsy. Executors, son, Joshua
Coons, James Coons, and Martin
Coons. Witnesses, Jas. Darnaby, John Darnaby.
June 5,
1821. Codicil, Mentions Mary, widow of John Coons, deceased. Elijah,
Joshua, Henry
Marianne, John, Samuel,
and Peter Coons, heirs of John Coons. Witnesses, James and
John Darnaby. Will and
Codicil recorded Aug. Court 1823.
One discrepancy when you get to it is the maiden name of Henry's wife. I have
seen her given as Allen or Whitesides.
I have not come to any conclusions on this point.
There are a couple of bio's for his
sons in the " "History
of Fayette Co. Ky.", pg 781-782, Mid-Continent Library, Independence, Mo, 976.9
P442.", but I have not found a resolution.
Regarding John Bradbury on (I think) a genforum posting I found this message
which was posted a long time ago
Jane Benner
I'm descended from John Bradbury and have a copy of the
book by Thwaites about his
travels.
Inside the front cover, someone long ago wrote in the following:
John Bradbury born
Aug 9 or 10, 1766
Elizabeth
Bradbury born Aug 18, 1766
[their children]
John Bradbury March 7, 1785
Edward Bradbury Aug 23, 1787 (my ancestor,
married Mary Stetson 1818)
Thomas Bradbury March 23, 1789 died March 19,
1800
Martha Bradbury Feb 2, 1791 died Feb
12, 1791
Martha Bradbury [2] March 7, 1792
Elizabeth Bradbury Dec 16,
1793
Samuel Bradbury July 31, 1795
Mary Bradbury March 3, 1797
Sarah Bradbury Nov 32, 1799
Henry Bradbury
Aug 3, 1800
Martha Bradbury [2] married
Thomas Edward Coglin of Liverpool, England
You notice the typo on our
Sarah's birthdate, that just our luck
I suppose. Naturally, I have followed what the Historical Society of Grant Co. Wisconsin
wrote to me which is Nov. 25th. They
go on to give the year as 1800.
Another item you might find interesting is the
following; (I'm not sure I
was supposed to have access to this, so you might not want to post it on your
webpage???)
Bradbury, John, 1768-1823
John Bradbury, Scottish naturalist, was born in August 1768 in Stalybridge, Scotland. He
received a primary education, excelling
at botany, before working in Manchester, England textile mills. Bradbury devoted much of
his leisure time to the study of
plants, and by age eighteen he operated an institution to teach his peers what he had
learned. He married and raised eight
children, progressing to management roles in the cotton industry. Continuing his botanical
research, Bradbury gained patronage
and support for his endeavors through papers published for several national journals. He
joined the Botanical Society of Liverpool,
which in 1809 selected him to conduct the association's
scientific study of American
flora.
Thomas Jefferson personally
welcomed Bradbury and arranged for his passage to St. Louis, which the naturalist would
use as his base. In 1810, Bradbury
explored the St. Louis region, venturing as far as three hundred miles from the city. When
William Price Hunt's overland expedition
to Astoria left St. Louis in the spring of 1811, Bradbury and English naturalist Thomas
Nuttall joined the excursion. They
accompanied the Hunt enterprise up the Missouri River as far as John Jacob Astor's trading
fort with the Arikara Indians in
South Dakota. Here, Bradbury and Nuttall connected with Ramsay Crooks's party headed
further up the river. With Crooks, they
visited a fur trading post in a Mandan village, remaining there the summer months. They
returned to Arikara post in August
1811, joining trader Manuel Lisa's group - which included writer Henry Marie
Brackenridge - on an expedited return to St.
Louis. Nuttall sailed for New Orleans, then to England; however, Bradbury contracted a
fever in St. Louis, spending four months
recovering before departing for New Orleans.
Bradbury left St. Louis in
mid-December 1811, traveling down the Mississippi
River. En route, he crossed very near the epicenter at the first strike of the powerful New
Madrid earthquake of December
16, 1811. Upon his eventual arrival in New Orleans, Bradbury made preparations for his
return to England; however, shipping
restrictions following at the outbreak of the War of 1812 thwarted his plans. Bradbury
remained in the United States until
1815. In the interval, he made a broad study of the Ohio River valley and conducted
additional research around St. Louis and
New Orleans.
Returning to England, Bradbury compiled the notes of his excursion
and the plant specimens he had earlier
shipped to the Liverpool Botanical Society. In 1817, he published Travels in the Interior of
North America in the years 1809,
1810, and 1811. His work, the first scientific study of the Missouri River region, contained
detailed descriptions of the
geography, plants and animals he encountered, including a description of buffalo herds
numbering in the thousands along the
river's northern banks. He provided readers depictions of the daily life of the traders with
whom he traveled and the Indians
he met. Bradbury met Daniel Boone and John Colter, acquaintances he described, as well.
An unauthorized publication of Bradbury's
collections of North American flora had been published before his arrival in London, and
Bradbury did not receive the scientific
recognition due him. By 1819, when a second edition of his Travels was published,
Bradbury and his family had relocated
to St. Louis.
In St. Louis, Bradbury became reacquainted with Indian chiefs he had
met during his earlier entures,
and in the early 1820s he took a final excursion up the Missouri River. Bradbury died of
unknown causes in 1823.
Source:
Waldman, Carl and Alan Wexler. "Bradbury, John, 1768-1823." In Who Was
Who in
World Exploration. New York:
Facts on File, 1992; "Bradbury, John." In The New
Encyclopedia of the
American West, edited by Howard R. Lamar,
122. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1998; A Tribute to John Bradbury .
Tameside Metropolitan Borough
Council,
2000. (August 12, 2003); Yatskivych, George. Missouri's First Botanists .
Conservation Commission of Missouri, 2002.
(August 12, 2003).
Produced in collaboration with the University of
Chicago.
At this time I am
working on my side and will get back to this probably in the fall. Please keep me in mind if
you come up with anything!!!!!!
Sincerely,
Vicki Piper
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