1880 Census: Brookfield, Madison Co., New York; age 50

Cordelia Angelina (Burdick) Coon 1830-1909
"The Milton Journal", Milton Wisconsin, Thursday, July 1, 1909, p 1.
Mrs. Cornelia Burdick Coon
The unexpected death of Mrs. Geo. Coon of College Street of this village, which occurred about midnight Monday night, June 28th, was a great shock to the people of Milton. She was in her usual health, so far as any of the family knew up to the evening of her death, when what for a moment seemed to be a serious accident to her little grandson, produced a nervous shock, from which she failed to rally.
Mrs. Coon was the youngest child of Mr. Jacob Burdick of the Town of Brookfield, Madison County, New York, where she was born March 12, 1830. An older sister (half sister) was the mother of Mr. Ira J. Ordway, of Chicago. She was the last of her family to answer the call home. She was married to Mr. Geo. Coon, in Brookfield March 27, 1861, Elder Stephen Burdick officiating. To them were born five children - 3 daughters and 2 sons, all of whom survive her. Two of the daughters, - Mrs. Serle and Mrs. Wetmore live at Fairfield on Rock Prairie, and one, Miss Nettie, has remained at home with the father and mother. The oldest son, Charles D., for some time a teacher in Chicago, is now a business man in California, and the youngest son, Floyd T., is a well known business man in Milton.
In 1891, Mr. and Mrs. Coon came with their family to Wisconsin and lived two years at Fairfield, after which they came to Milton where they have since lived.
When a girl of 16 years Mrs. Coon professed her faith in Christ and was baptized by Eld. Charles M. Lewis, uniting with the First Seventh-Day Baptist Church of Brookfield in the Village of Leonardsville. On their settlement in Milton, with others of the family she transferred her membership to the church of the same faith, of which she has remained a loyal member.
Funeral services this (Thursday morning July 1) morning, at 10 o'clock, at her late home on College Street, conducted by her Pastor, Dr. Platts. Burial in the Milton cemetery.

1880 Census: Brookfield, Madison Co., New York; age 51, farmer

Cause of death: Cerebral hemorrhage

Note: b De Ruyter, NY

Informant on his death cert was Floyd Coon. (Middle initial E.)

"The Journal-Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Jan. 23, 1919, p 1.
George Coon was the son of Thomas and Susan (Bliss) Coon and was born at Richmond Hill, near DeRuyter, Madison County, New York, March 17, 1829. He died in Milton on January 19, and would therefore have been ninety years old if he had lived till next March. He was of an enduring physical frame, though not apparently a very robust man. His tenacity of life, evinced in his last sickness, was remarkable.
Mr. Coon's father and mother came from Rhode Island to New York fifteen years or thereabouts before his birth. Their migration was also their wedding journey, and they made it mainly by boat and on horseback. They traveled up the Hudson River by boat to Albany and rode on horseback from Albany to the place where they settled.
George was the tenth of twelve children born to his parents. His early life was spent in Madison County, and on March 27, 1861, he was married to Cordelia Burdick at Leonardsville, N. Y. Thirty years later, in the spring of 1891, at the age of 62, he was baptized on the same day with his son Floyd, then a lad of fifteen.
Mr. and Mrs. Coon lived in Leonardsville for thirty years, and in 1891 they moved to Wisconsin. They settled on Rock Prairie, where they lived for two years. At the end of that time, in 1893 they moved to Milton, and in September of that year they united with the Seventh-day Baptist church at Milton, of which they remained members as long as they lived.
Mrs. Coon died June 28, 1909, and from that time Mr. Coon was in relatively feeble health and lived in Milton with his daughter Nettie, whose tender care and solicitude were given to her father with unremitting zeal until his death.
To Mr. and Mrs. Coon were born five children, all of whom are still living: Charles D. Coon, of Riverside, California; Grace E. (Mrs. Earl) Wetmore, who lives on Rock Prairie; Nettie A. Coon, of Milton; Clara M. (Mrs. Stephen D.) Searle, who lives at Fairfield, Wis.; and Floyd T. Coon, of Milton.
Mr. Coon was very modest and unassuming, thoughtful, and of a quiet disposition, kindly in manner and simple in his tastes. He was cherished as a loved friend by all who came to know him. Through his nature, though not always known by strangers, there ran a vein of genial humor. His Christian faith, once confessed, remained always unshaken.
Funeral services were held at his late residence in Milton, on Tuesday, January 21, conducted by President Daland. Interment was made in the village cemetery at Milton.