"The Weekly Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Mar. 14, 1912, p 1.

Lafayette Coon, the eleventh child of Samuel Hubbard and Olive Brown Coon, was born in Brookfield, Madison county, N. Y., May 25, 1824, and died at Milton Junction, Wis., March 12, 1912, being nearly 88 years of age. He experienced religion at the age of fifteen years under the preaching of Rev. Samuel Crandall and joined the Third Seventh Day Baptist church at Brookfield, now West Edmeston. In 1844 he went to Ashaway, R. I., and in 1857 he removed to Wisconsin. He made his home in Utica until 1892 when he came to Milton Junction where he has since made his home.

In 1846 he married Mary C. Wells of Waterford, Conn., and for more than sixty-five years they have lived happily together. To this union were born three sons Edward D., Samuel H., and George W. Samuel died some years ago, the other sons are both residents of our village.

The more active days of Mr. Coon's maturer life were spent at Utica, where he had the respect of his neighbors and fellow citizens. For about sixteen years he was a member of the town board of Christiana, and he was town treasurer for two years during war times. He was also postmaster at Utica at one time.

In conversation with him one breathed the atmosphere of pioneer days which is ever a wholesome tonic to the thoughtful of the present generation. Mr. Coon was clean and strong in his personal habits and character, patient and kind in his home and family, and honest and trustworthy in business and public life. He was unassuming in his religious life, but he always connected himself with the church of his faith in the community in which he lived, being a member of the Seventh-day Baptist church of this village at the time of his death. He spoke often in his last days of the goodness of the Lord to him. He enjoyed a long life here, and has gone to enjoy the blessings of that better country of which he has long been a citizen, leaving to mourn his loss the aged wife who is one year his senior, his two sons, Edward and George, and many other relatives and friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Coon have untiringly administered to the needs of this aged couple for their comfort. They will continue to care for their mother.

The funeral services were held from the home at 11:00 o'clock Thursday morning, his pastor, Rev. A. J. C. Bond officiating. A mixed quartet consisting of Mrs. F. L. Burdick, Miss Winnie Crandall, Dr. E. B. Loofboro and E. M. Holston furnished the music. The floral attributes betokened the respect and esteem in which this aged citizen was held. The interment was made in the Milton Junction cemetery.