♂Joseph Franklin Koons

Joseph F. Koons (December 1879 – 11 July 1958) was an Indiana-born man, the eldest surviving child of Thomas Koons and Magdalena M. Koons, who went west from his parents’ home in Illinois to Minnesota and then to Major County, Oklahoma, where his father later lived with him. He was the elder brother of Mary Magdalene Koons (1885–1977), the mother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014).

Early life

Joseph F. Koons was born in December 1879 in Indiana, the eldest of the four surviving children of Thomas Koons (1855–1938) and Magdalena M. Koons (1852–1923). The census of 1880 found the infant with his parents in Greensboro, Henry County, Indiana. By 1885 the family had moved to Clay County, Illinois, where his sister Mary Magdalene was born at Flora. In 1900 he was still living in his parents’ household in Harter Township, Clay County, listed as a single son.

Minnesota and Oklahoma

By 1910 Joseph had left Illinois and was living at Enterprise, Jackson County, Minnesota. Ten years later he was in Deep Creek, Major County, Oklahoma, and he remained there for at least twenty years, appearing at Deep Creek in the censuses of 1920, 1930 and 1940. His parents also moved to Major County by 1920. His mother died in 1923, and in 1930 his widowed father, Thomas, was living in Joseph’s household at Deep Creek.

Death

Joseph F. Koons died on 11 July 1958. The place of his death and burial has not been found.

Notes

The census of 1930 gave his birth year as 1880; the family record has December 1879. No marriage for him has been recorded in the family record.