Person:William Cone (5)

UPDATE: DNA matches make it nearly certain that Mary Cone is a descendant of Samuel Cone, discussed below. So its only a question of which son of Samuel is father. Beside the arguments for William below, I am seeing DNA matches with Wings of Kennebec, ME. William Cone of Clinton, Kennebec, ME married Mercy Wing in 1806. Suspect she is the mother. I also found a rather silly Bangor Whig and Courier clipping from 1879 referencing an old man, Wm Cone of Enfield (right by Lowell) who had a hedgehog appear in his bed. Someone like this must be a relative.

I do not have a birth record for Wm Cone. I suspect that he is a son of Samuel Cone because: (1) A Wm Cone married Mercy Wing in 1806 in Clinton, Maine, where Samuel Cone was. Our William would be about 18, so thats pretty reasonable. (2) Samuel has two sons in 1810 between the ages of 16 and 25, and a daughter between 10 and 15. While one of these sons is certainly Samuel Cone, Jr., the other may well be William. In 1790, Samuel had three young males living with him, I conjecture that one of these was William. (3) William Cone lived with the daughter of Mary Cone in 1870 in Lowell, next door to Mary. His census record makes him born about 1788.

There is a strong link that I do not understand to Mary and Isaac Cone (s of Samuel) that I have interpreted as her uncle: (1) Isaac and Mary follow each other around. In 1820 the three Cones (Samuel, Sam. Jr. and Isaac) were together in Clinton, ME. (2) in 1830 Isaac Cone is listed very close to Jedidiah Varney [who had young Warren McPheters living with him, as well as Eleanor Tourtillott].They lived in "Cold Stream Half Township" in Penobscot Cty, Maine. (3) In 1840 Isaac Cone lived in Lowell, ME, along with (recently married to Mary) Warren McPheters and J. Varney.

In 1835, it is recorded that Warren McPheters married Mary "Coam" or Coan in Lincoln, ME (next to Lowell), who was born about 1813. Two other "Cone girls" were married in Lincoln within a few years of Mary.

A Wm Cone is recorded as marrying Mercy Wing in Clinton, Maine in 1806 (LDS records). Samuel Cone and his boys Isaac and Sam. Jr were living in Clinton in1806.

So because 1) A Wm Cone appears to live with the McPheters clan in 1870, 2) Cones (and especially "Uncle Isaac") are suspiciously closely connected to McPheters -- almost certainly choosing to move together, 3) A Wm Cone was married in Clinton, Maine at just the right time to be Mary's father, 4) Samuel Cone Sr lived to be quite an old man, over 90, and lived his last decades i Hampden, ME, not far from Bangor (but more South rather than North as Lowell is).

I note that after the old man's death (Samuel Sr, in 1845), Isaac, no youngster himself, struck out for Minnesota.

NOTE. LDS reports marriage of Wm Cone to Mercy Wing, 11 Apr 1806, Clinton, Kennebec, Maine.

A Mercy Wing is born 18 June 1781 in Clinton, Kennebec, Maine to Phillip and Abagail

LDS: spouse: William Cone marriage: 11 Apr 1806 — Clinton, Kennebec, Maine

record title: Maine Marriages, 1771-1907 groom's name: William Cone bride's name: Mercy Wing marriage date: 11 Apr 1806 marriage place: Clinton,Kennebec,Maine indexing project (batch) number: M50300-2 system origin: Maine-ODM source film number: 10620

LDS: The town of Lincoln, Penobscot, Maine was founded about 1825. So none of William's children were born there, though he is clearly listed as being b. in Maine (somewhere, in Clinton I speculate!). I note that Phebe and Joanna Cone were born at about the same time as Mary, they are probably sisters. Most frustratingly, no birth records are to be found, only the weddings.

This is a tree constructed from a variety of sources; some original work on New England, otherwise using NEHGS and other "respectable" sources. Medieval is from genealogics.org, (used as a check on) ancestry.com, and a few amendments from medieval genealogy -- soc.genealogy.medieval

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publications M593 and T132)
   Year: 1870; Census Place: Lowell, Penobscot, Maine; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: .

   Birth date: abt 1788 Birth place: Maine Residence date: 1870 Residence place: Lowell, Penobscot, Maine, United States _APID: 1,7163::25706137

   http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1870usfedcen&h=25706137&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt