Kenyon Byron Coon 1865-1921
Categories: Albion, Wisconsin, Rev. Charles S. Sayre Officiating, The Sabbath Recorder Obituary
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 90, No 13, p 414, Mar. 28, 1921.
Kenyon Byron Coon was born in St. Peter, Minn., November 1, 1865, and died in Chicago, Ill., March 1, 1921, at the age of 55 years and 4 months.
At an early age he with his parents moved to his mother’s old homestead near Edgerton, Wis., where he received an education, and graduated from Albion Academy, also for a time was a student in Milton College.
Soon after he was twenty-one he entered the U. S. mail service as a postal clerk, which occupation he followed until last October when he was stricken with the dread disease that caused his death.
In childhood he was a regular attendant at the Sabbath school and church services and his character was one of purity and unselfishness. He was of a quiet and reserved nature and those who knew him best found his character one of true kindness and helpfulness.
June 6, 1914, he married Miss Helen Rhoda, of Chicago. Three children were born to them: LaVerne, six years old; Lois, four; and Helen, two. These with the mother are left to mourn the loss of a most devoted husband and father. He leaves also his grief stricken father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Coon; two sisters, Mrs. Fred Palmiter and Mr. C. A. Emerson, of Albion; and one brother, Roy Coon, of Stoughton, Wis., besides a host of friends both here and in Chicago.
Funeral services were held in the church at Albion, conducted by Pastor C. S. Sayre, and burial made in the Evergreen Cemetery. C. S. S.

Census: 1880 Albion Township, Dane Co., Wisconsin: age 14, b MN