I am primarily researching the Coons family, who migrated from New York State into the Coleman, Midland, Michigan, area prior to 1860. There may be a Canadian connection (Ontario), along with this. The name Coons itself is more Germanic, yet my dad told of his father's speaking a pidgen French with his sibs and a grandmother (Ida Thorington) who often read a French-language newspaper.

To date, I have information as far back as my g-g-g-grandfather, Jacob Coons, possible DOB c. 1790, and his wife, Margaret (Peggy) Pectel.

My grandfather, Ervin (Ervie) Coons (d. 1927), may have remarried after his divorce from my grandmother, Inez Drew Coons.

• Ida Thorington Coons (64 KB)
  My great-grandmother, age c. 89, shortly before her death in 1953, Coleman, Michigan. Oldest living resident in Coleman at that time.
• Ervie Coons, c. 1917 (50 KB)
  My grandfather, age c. 27, in or near Coleman, Michigan.
• Inez, Charles and Lois Coons, c. 1915 (78 KB)
  My grandmother, dad and aunt.
• Lois and Charles Coons, 1917 (40 KB)
  Aunt and dad, Hague Park, Jackson, Michigan.
• Lois and Sons, 1944 (79 KB)
  Aunt and cousins Mark, Roger and Jack.
• Inez Drew (Coons) Wilde, 1965 (57 KB)
  My grandmother, age c. 72, at home in Corpus Christi, Texas.
• Sylvia and Charles Couns, and Juliet (46 KB)
  My parents and I, Easter Sunday, 1965, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Juliet Dawson
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