James  Madison Coon

Notes taken from Coon and Miller family history records in the
  possession of Robert Lewis

James  Madison Coon,  born Sept. 24th 1813 in Jefferson
  County, Kentucky, was the second son of a family of eight
  children - seven boys and one girl - born to Michael Coon, Jr.
  and Elizabeth (Kelly) Coon who were married on the 6th of April,
  1803 in Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia. Michael was the
  descendant of hardy German immigrant stock who came from the
  upper Rhine River Valley to York County, Pennsylvania in 1738.
  Michael's father, Michael Sr. and six of his brothers were
  members of the "German Regiment" ("Pennsylvania DEUTSCH" not
  "Dutch") from York County, Pennsylvania during "The War of the
  Rebellion" (the Revolutionary War). His wife and James' mother,
  Elizabeth showed her fine Irish heritage with the great surname
  of Kelly and was the daughter of George Kelly of Fincastle,
  Botetourt County, Virginia.

James wrote a diary/journal of his travels from  Illinois to Oregon in
1847. This diary is  available at http://ibssg.org/miller/

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Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG
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