Isaac Coon

Kate grew up in Salt Lake and Pleasant Green. She courted a young man from the Coon family that settled Coonville by Pleasant Green who also lived two blocks north of her home in Salt Lake during the winter. At eighteen years of age she married Isaac Coon in Salt Lake City on December19, 1869 in the Endowment House on Temple Square. Isaac was the son of Abraham Coon and Mary Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilson. He was born June 18, 1850 in Kanesville, Pottawattamie, Iowa. His family came to Utah in the Warren Foot Company of 1850. Catherine and her husband had fourteen children.

Kate’s husband was called Ike; he was a farmer and raised livestock. Having a large family they built a large home of adobe in Pleasant Green. He was ordained a seventy and filled a mission to the eastern states in 1896-1898. He became a high priest and served as 1st counselor to Bishop Spencer in the Pleasant Green Ward. They were industrious people, smoking meat, milling flour, churning butter then storing it in a salt solution, making soap and candles, harvesting crops, and chopping wood for winter. It took a few years to get a post office, proper schooling for the children, and have a train they could take to Salt Lake. The first flax in the state was grown in Pleasant Grove by her father. This had to be cured and woven into fabric before making clothing for the family. The 1910 Census for Pleasant Green showed Isaac 59, farmer, Catherine 59, they had been married for 40 years. The children that were still living at home were listed as: Frederick 24, Edith 15, Arthur 17, George 14, Herbert 13, Clara 11, Frank 9, Ralph 7, and Katie M. 5. Catherine was the mother of 14 children. They were industrious, smoking meat, milling flour, churning butter then stored in a salt solution, making soap, harvesting crops, and chopping wood for winter use in Salt Lake. They continued to live in Pleasant Green until Catherine’s husband became ill and was taken to Salt Lake City to the LDS Hospital. He was there for several days before he died on October 15, 1932. He was buried in the Pleasant Green Cemetery in Magna, Utah. He died of chronic myocardial according to his death certificate but, his obituary said infirmities incident to age. He was last attended to by Dr. G. G. Richards from October 11. He was last seen on the 14th day before his death. He was listed as a retired farmer and stockman. His obituary read: Isaac Coon, 82, of Pleasant Green, died in a local hospital Saturday at 10 a.m. of infirmities incident to age. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 18, 1850, and had been a resident of Pleasant Green for many years. He engaged in stock raising and farming. He was a prominent member of the Church, serving as superintendent of the Sunday school for 14 years and in the bishopric of the Pleasant Green ward for 26 years. He was 82 years, 3 months and 27 days old. He was buried in the Pleasant Green Cemetery in Magna, Utah.

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