Listed are:Īdam and Eleanor Coon are known to have 9 children: Census, Adam and Eleanor Coon resided in Hudson, McLean County, Illinois. Census, Adam and Eleanor Coon resided in Mackanaw (north side), McLean County, Illinois. Census, Adam Coon resided in McLean County, Illinois. On, Adam married Eleanor 'Nellie' Dickerson in Fayette County, Ohio. The descendants of Adam's father, John Coon, primarily use the COON spelling. Census recorders and others wrote the name the way they understood it and sometimes the alternate spelling was carried on.Īdam's Grandfather, Johann “John” Göhn, arrived in America on September 19, 1738, on the ship Thistle and landed at Philadelphia from Rotterdam via Plymouth, England. Gohn, author of the book 'A Historical Sketch of the Gohn Family in Canada' writes on page 3 that 'In Pennsylvania to this day the name 'Gohn' is pronounced 'Goon''. People wrote the name the way it was pronounced. It evolved into other variations, such as Coon, Koon, Goan, Kuhn, Kohn and Goon. The original German spelling of the family name is Göhn. His siblings are:Īs with many early families that settled in America, the spelling of surnames were varied. They lived there until July 4, 1837, when they went to McLean County, Illinois.Īdam is 1 of 11 known children of John and Catherine. On Christmas Day 1823, the Coon family started for Indiana, and arrived near Crawfordsville in January 1824. The family was living in Madison County, Ohio during the 1820 Census. John Coon moved his family from Pennsylvania to Botetourt County, Virginia around 1797, then to Ohio in 1804. John Coon was a Revolutionary War veteran who served as a Private with the 8th Company, 6th Battalion of the York County Militia, under Capt.

Adam Coon is the son of John Coon and Anna Catherine Schneider.

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