One Coulter's Family History

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Primary Surnames on this website are: Coulter, Van Patten, Risden, Hancon, Estes, Whittington, Henderson, Mayfield, Vreeland, Richards, Dunlop, Estes
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  • ID: I23
  • Name: John Hancon
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 14 JUL 1835 in Moodna, Orange County, New York 1 2
  • 1850: 26 AUG 1850 Cornwall, Orange County, New York
  • Note: age 15, bricklaborer, living in boarding house, the owner being
  • Note: Allen Ridgeway, brickmaker, his wife Eliza J and child Sarah E.
  • Note: Other familiar names in the house were James B. Wiley, Samuel
  • Note: Mead, and Alexander Ridgeway.
  • 1860: 20 JUL 1860 New Windsor, Orange County, New York
  • Note: listed as John Hampton age 22, living next door to mother and
  • Note: step-father with sister Esther and George Harris, his wife
  • Note: Abigail Harris an older woman Catharine Harris and child Norman
  • Note: Harris.
  • 1870: 1870 Cornwall, Orange, New York
  • Note: age 36, carpenter, value of real estate owned 2,000, value of
  • Note: personal estate owned 1,000. Every census from this forward
  • Note: states John was born in New York.
  • 1880: 12 JUN 1880 Cornwall, Orange, New York
  • Note: age 45, dry goods merchant
  • Baptism: 9 OCT 1887 St Johns Episcopal Church, Cornwall, Orange, New York 2
  • 1900: 4 JUN 1900 Cornwall, Orange, New York
  • Note: age 64, married 35 years, dry goods merchant, owned farm free of
  • Note: mortgage page 50
  • Death: 11 FEB 1908 in Cornwall, New York
  • Note: Died of arteriosis. 2
  • Burial: 14 FEB 1908 Woodlawn Cemetery, New Windsor, Orange, New York
  • Note: Section E/159 3
  • 1840: missing
  • Occupation: Embarked as Dry Goods Merchant ca 1872 4 2
  • HONO: February 28 bet 1859/1861 - The West End Association of Boston presented him with a gold medal not for its intrinsic value, but as a memento from your friends, who appreciate your gentlemanly bearing and mild unassuming character.
  • FACT: A famous old time oarsman, boat builder and skater and one of the greatest athletes of his day.
  • FOTO: John and Sarah ca 1865
  • FOTO: John Hancon December 23 1881
  • FOTO: Frozen Hudson
  • FOTO: Side 1 of medal from W.E.A. Boston
  • Religion: St John's Episcopal Church
  • Change Date: 12 AUG 2003



    Father: John Hancon b: 15 JUL 1804 in Burghill, Herefordshire, England
    Mother: Elinor Lucas b: DEC 1804 in England

    Marriage 1 Sarah Jane Emslie b: 6 FEB 1845 in New York City, New York
    • Married: 22 MAR 1865 in New London, Connecticut 2
    Children
    1. Has Children Harry Hancon b: 21 JUL 1869 in Cornwall, Orange County, New York
    2. Has No Children James Hancon b: JAN 1878 in Cornwall, Orange, New York

    Sources:
    1. Text: Source Type: 1900 US Census, Cornwall, Orange County, New York
    2. Text: Emslie: Information provided by Bill Emslie, Text: freewilly@aol.com.>
      Text:
      Text: Emslie History by Edna Emslie - 1919
      Text: the notebook was done in pencil and is very faded.
    3. Text: Hancon: Woodlawn Cemetery, New Windsor, Orange County, New
      Text: York, phone conversation between employee with Woodlawn Cemetery
      Text: and Seana L. Coulter
    4. Text: Source Type: 1880 US Census, Cornwall, Orange County, New York
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