Coons Family Tree-Climbing

I am primarily researching the Coons family, originally from the Coleman, Michigan, area, with a likely Canadian connection (Ontario) prior to this. There is also a possible but remote French Basque connection, although I cannot establish a link to 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.

I cannot find information prior to Erwin Coons (my great-grandfather), b. 1859, d. 1913.

Pictures of other family members, both paternal and maternal, are included here. Please feel free to write me with any of your comments, corrections, etc. Discovery is an ongoing process!

My Family History

• Surname List


• Index of Individuals


• InterneTree

Family Photos

• Lois (Coons) Harris and Sons, 1944 (47 KB)
  My Aunt Lois and cousins (L-R) Mark, Roger (Timmy) and Jack (John) Taken Christmas, 1944, Madison, Wisconsin
• A Tale of Two Lieutenants--My Parents (132 KB)
  Charles Coons and Sylvia Cleveland met while stationed in Key West, FL, in 1942, and married there in October, 1943.
• Inez Drew (Coons) Wilde, 1965 (57 KB)
  My paternal grandmother, age c. 72, Corpus Christi, Texas
• Ervie Coons, 1917, age c. 27 (50 KB)
  My paternal grandfather, only picture I have of him, Midland, Michigan.
• Inez, Lois and Charles Coons, c. 1915 (78 KB)
  My paternal grandmother, aunt and dad, taken in Jackson, Michigan.
• Lois and Charles Coons, c. 1919 (40 KB)
  My aunt and dad, ages 8 and 6, respectively. Taken in Hague Park, Jackson, Michigan.
• Ida Thorington Coons, c. 1953 (64 KB)
  My paternal great-grandmother, age c. 89, shortly before she died in 1953. Former Honorary Centennial Queen, oldest native-born woman in Midland County, Michigan, at that time.
• Helen Sylvia Cleveland, c. 1921 (73 KB)
  My mother as a precious two-year-old, taken in yard at home in Lebanon, Tennessee.
• Ada Maude Natcher, c. 1870 (160 KB)
  My maternal great-grandmother, shortly before marrying George A. Phillips, taken in Gallatin, Tennessee.
• Sylvia and Charles Couns, and Juliet (46 KB)
  This was taken on Palm Sunday of 1968, in the front yard of my parents'home in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• InterneTree: Juliet A Dawson