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Coon Family Cemetery
Wilkinson County, MS

You should have come to this page from my introductory page to my Coon/Kuhn ancestors.  If not, here's a link to that page.

In October 2010 my wife and I visited this cemetery.  We were accompanied by three distant relatives of mine:

•  Jerome Wall. Jerome and I share the same great-great-grandparents, Robert Riley Richardson (1813-1874) and Mary E. Wells Hatfield (1820 – 1891). 
  • They had ten children, two of whom were Edward Everett Richardson (1857 – 1925) and Reverdy Hunter Richardson (1864 – 1916). 
  • These two brothers married Coon sisters – E.E.R. married Alice C. Coon and R.H.R. married Martha “Mattie” Coon. 
  • E.E.R. had a daughter, Lee Richardson, who married ??? Wall.  They had several children and Jerome is the son of one of those.  He is grandson of ??? Wall and Lee Richardson; great-grandson of E.E. Richardson and Alice Coon; great-great-grandson of Robert Riley Richardson and Mary E. Wells Hatfield.
•  Charles Clark; his mother was Helen Coon Clark, an aunt of my grandfather, Clarence J. Richardson, whose mother was Martha "Mattie" Coon.
•  Mable Clark; Charles' wife.

Here's a photo of us at the cemetery:

L to R:  Jerome Wall; Joe Schlatter, Charles Clark, Mable Clark.  The cemetery is to the left of this photo.

UPDATE, August 2026

Charles "Sonny" Clark died in June 2013

Mabel Clark died in 2022.

Here is a link to photos from the same cemetery that were made several years ago.  The individual making these photos used chalk or flour to make the lettering stand out.

A few months before I visited the cemetery in October 2010, Charles and Mable Clark paid two men to clean brush from this cemetery.  These two gents removed the headstones, took them to a carwash and washed them, then, re-set the stones on their original foundations.

Coon Family Cemetery, Coon's Mill Road, west of Woodville, Wilkinson County, MS.
Coordinates:  N 31 deg 08.505 min    W 091 deg  12.373 min

 

Close-up view of central monument.  Each side of this monument is engraved with the names and information of the people buried in the Coon Family Cemetery.  The inscriptions here read: CHAS. A. COON Dec 26, 1829 Oct. 13, 1900 MARTHA A. Wife of CHAS. A. COON Mar. 18, 1837 Oct. 8, 1883

 

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MATTIE Wife of R. H. RICHARDSON Jan. 28, 1866 Jan. 21, 1901 ________ RICHARD H. Son of R. H. & M. RICHARDSON Aug. 10, 1900 Dec. 6, 1900 The child, Richard H. Richardson, is a brother of my grandfather, Clarence J. Richardson ( 1896 - 1972 ).  I note that the child Richard was born in August 1900 and died on 6 December 1900.  His mother (my great-grandmother ) died six weeks later. 21 January 1901.  I wonder if her death was related to this child's birth?  Or, perhaps the two of them died from an illness.  They died in the winter -- Dec 1900, Jan 1901 -- possibly of flu or another cold-weather illness

 

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Here are the separate headstones for Mattie Coon Richardson (my great-grandmother ) and her last child, Richard H. Richardson.

My mother told me several times that her father, my grandfather, Clarence J. Richardson, sometimes spoke of a member of his family who died in infancy.  She said Granddad referred to this child as "Little Willie."  The family history material in my mother's possession included a small piece of paper cut into the shape of a small child's hand with the name "Willie" written on the hand.  I have not found any child named "Willie" in my grandfather's family and I wonder if "Little Willie" is this child, Richard H. Richardson.  HOWEVER -- also written on the small hand is the notation "13 months" -- Richard H. Richardson died at age 4 months, thus, he probably is not "Little Willie."

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Coon Family Cemetery Photos -- Page Two