"The Seventh Day Baptist General Conference Yearbook", 1939, p 15.
D. Burdett Coon, son of Corydon Coon and Mary Euphemia Colegrove Coon, was born February 14, 1863, in Minnesota and died at Boulder, Colo., October 23, 1938.
When Burdett was ten, the father died, and the mother was left to care for the two sons, Burdett and a younger son, Delano. Those pioneer days called for hard work and sacrifice to make a living and secure an education. At the age of fourteen he was baptized by Rev. James. E. N. Backus and united with the church at New Auburn, Minn. He was always faithful in his attendance at church, Sabbath school, and prayer meeting.
He entered Milton Academy and was graduated from Milton College in 1891. The same year, he entered the Theological Seminary at Morgan Park, Ill., and continued his theological studies at the University of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1894. He was married to Miss Cordelia Van Horn, a sister of Rev. Theodore J. Van Horn, in 1893. After his graduation, he was called to the missionary pastorate in central Wisconsin with his home in Berlin, traveling by horse and buggy and sleigh some two hundred miles a month to his preaching appointments. He was pastor at Farina, Ill., for two years, at Little Genesee, N. Y., five years. Failing health caused him to move to Gentry, Ark., where he lived the outdoor life on a farm for two years, when he was able to return to the pastorate, first for a time at Gentry and then in Shiloh, N. J. He served the Battle Creek, Mich., Church as a pastor and also at Boulder and Ashaway, R. I.
He was employed as an evangelist, a work he loved best to do and felt the Lord wished him to carry on. When the work in Jamaica, B. W. I., opened to our people, he went as missionary in this island and served in this field until declining years and impaired health made it seem best to return to the home land. Here he labored faithfully wherever there was a call to service. He filled his place in the church where he lived until within two weeks of his passing.
He is survived by his wife and three daughters.
In the words of a lifelong friend. "He had very strong convictions and was frank and outspoken. This made for him critics, but not enemies. He often differed from his brethren in matters of doctrine and polity, but he never wavered from his loyalty to the denomination. He believed the Bible and the power of the Cross with all his mind and heart. He preached them with all his mind and body - a rugged, fearless gospel preacher who had nothing of the time-server in him, but who lived to serve his Lord."
Farewell services were conducted at Boulder, Colo., October 25, 1938, by Rev. Ralph H. Coon of Boulder and Rev. Erlo F. Sutton of Denver. Burial was in the Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder.
transcribed by Jon Saunders, contributor 47674050
D. Burdett Coon, son of Corydon Coon and Mary Euphemia Colegrove Coon, was born February 14, 1863, in Minnesota and died at Boulder, Colo., October 23, 1938.
When Burdett was ten, the father died, and the mother was left to care for the two sons, Burdett and a younger son, Delano. Those pioneer days called for hard work and sacrifice to make a living and secure an education. At the age of fourteen he was baptized by Rev. James. E. N. Backus and united with the church at New Auburn, Minn. He was always faithful in his attendance at church, Sabbath school, and prayer meeting.
He entered Milton Academy and was graduated from Milton College in 1891. The same year, he entered the Theological Seminary at Morgan Park, Ill., and continued his theological studies at the University of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1894. He was married to Miss Cordelia Van Horn, a sister of Rev. Theodore J. Van Horn, in 1893. After his graduation, he was called to the missionary pastorate in central Wisconsin with his home in Berlin, traveling by horse and buggy and sleigh some two hundred miles a month to his preaching appointments. He was pastor at Farina, Ill., for two years, at Little Genesee, N. Y., five years. Failing health caused him to move to Gentry, Ark., where he lived the outdoor life on a farm for two years, when he was able to return to the pastorate, first for a time at Gentry and then in Shiloh, N. J. He served the Battle Creek, Mich., Church as a pastor and also at Boulder and Ashaway, R. I.
He was employed as an evangelist, a work he loved best to do and felt the Lord wished him to carry on. When the work in Jamaica, B. W. I., opened to our people, he went as missionary in this island and served in this field until declining years and impaired health made it seem best to return to the home land. Here he labored faithfully wherever there was a call to service. He filled his place in the church where he lived until within two weeks of his passing.
He is survived by his wife and three daughters.
In the words of a lifelong friend. "He had very strong convictions and was frank and outspoken. This made for him critics, but not enemies. He often differed from his brethren in matters of doctrine and polity, but he never wavered from his loyalty to the denomination. He believed the Bible and the power of the Cross with all his mind and heart. He preached them with all his mind and body - a rugged, fearless gospel preacher who had nothing of the time-server in him, but who lived to serve his Lord."
Farewell services were conducted at Boulder, Colo., October 25, 1938, by Rev. Ralph H. Coon of Boulder and Rev. Erlo F. Sutton of Denver. Burial was in the Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder.
transcribed by Jon Saunders, contributor 47674050
"The Seventh Day Baptist General Conference Yearbook", 1939, p 15.
D. Burdett Coon, son of Corydon Coon and Mary Euphemia Colegrove Coon, was born February 14, 1863, in Minnesota and died at Boulder, Colo., October 23, 1938.
When Burdett was ten, the father died, and the mother was left to care for the two sons, Burdett and a younger son, Delano. Those pioneer days called for hard work and sacrifice to make a living and secure an education. At the age of fourteen he was baptized by Rev. James. E. N. Backus and united with the church at New Auburn, Minn. He was always faithful in his attendance at church, Sabbath school, and prayer meeting.
He entered Milton Academy and was graduated from Milton College in 1891. The same year, he entered the Theological Seminary at Morgan Park, Ill., and continued his theological studies at the University of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1894. He was married to Miss Cordelia Van Horn, a sister of Rev. Theodore J. Van Horn, in 1893. After his graduation, he was called to the missionary pastorate in central Wisconsin with his home in Berlin, traveling by horse and buggy and sleigh some two hundred miles a month to his preaching appointments. He was pastor at Farina, Ill., for two years, at Little Genesee, N. Y., five years. Failing health caused him to move to Gentry, Ark., where he lived the outdoor life on a farm for two years, when he was able to return to the pastorate, first for a time at Gentry and then in Shiloh, N. J. He served the Battle Creek, Mich., Church as a pastor and also at Boulder and Ashaway, R. I.
He was employed as an evangelist, a work he loved best to do and felt the Lord wished him to carry on. When the work in Jamaica, B. W. I., opened to our people, he went as missionary in this island and served in this field until declining years and impaired health made it seem best to return to the home land. Here he labored faithfully wherever there was a call to service. He filled his place in the church where he lived until within two weeks of his passing.
He is survived by his wife and three daughters.
In the words of a lifelong friend. "He had very strong convictions and was frank and outspoken. This made for him critics, but not enemies. He often differed from his brethren in matters of doctrine and polity, but he never wavered from his loyalty to the denomination. He believed the Bible and the power of the Cross with all his mind and heart. He preached them with all his mind and body - a rugged, fearless gospel preacher who had nothing of the time-server in him, but who lived to serve his Lord."
Farewell services were conducted at Boulder, Colo., October 25, 1938, by Rev. Ralph H. Coon of Boulder and Rev. Erlo F. Sutton of Denver. Burial was in the Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder.
transcribed by Jon Saunders, contributor 47674050
D. Burdett Coon, son of Corydon Coon and Mary Euphemia Colegrove Coon, was born February 14, 1863, in Minnesota and died at Boulder, Colo., October 23, 1938.
When Burdett was ten, the father died, and the mother was left to care for the two sons, Burdett and a younger son, Delano. Those pioneer days called for hard work and sacrifice to make a living and secure an education. At the age of fourteen he was baptized by Rev. James. E. N. Backus and united with the church at New Auburn, Minn. He was always faithful in his attendance at church, Sabbath school, and prayer meeting.
He entered Milton Academy and was graduated from Milton College in 1891. The same year, he entered the Theological Seminary at Morgan Park, Ill., and continued his theological studies at the University of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1894. He was married to Miss Cordelia Van Horn, a sister of Rev. Theodore J. Van Horn, in 1893. After his graduation, he was called to the missionary pastorate in central Wisconsin with his home in Berlin, traveling by horse and buggy and sleigh some two hundred miles a month to his preaching appointments. He was pastor at Farina, Ill., for two years, at Little Genesee, N. Y., five years. Failing health caused him to move to Gentry, Ark., where he lived the outdoor life on a farm for two years, when he was able to return to the pastorate, first for a time at Gentry and then in Shiloh, N. J. He served the Battle Creek, Mich., Church as a pastor and also at Boulder and Ashaway, R. I.
He was employed as an evangelist, a work he loved best to do and felt the Lord wished him to carry on. When the work in Jamaica, B. W. I., opened to our people, he went as missionary in this island and served in this field until declining years and impaired health made it seem best to return to the home land. Here he labored faithfully wherever there was a call to service. He filled his place in the church where he lived until within two weeks of his passing.
He is survived by his wife and three daughters.
In the words of a lifelong friend. "He had very strong convictions and was frank and outspoken. This made for him critics, but not enemies. He often differed from his brethren in matters of doctrine and polity, but he never wavered from his loyalty to the denomination. He believed the Bible and the power of the Cross with all his mind and heart. He preached them with all his mind and body - a rugged, fearless gospel preacher who had nothing of the time-server in him, but who lived to serve his Lord."
Farewell services were conducted at Boulder, Colo., October 25, 1938, by Rev. Ralph H. Coon of Boulder and Rev. Erlo F. Sutton of Denver. Burial was in the Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder.
transcribed by Jon Saunders, contributor 47674050
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