At the home of his son, near Boulder, Col., Dec. 27, 1904, E. Burrett Coon, of pneumonia, in the 55th year of his age.
The subject of this sketch was born on the third of June, 1850, in Rhode Island, and was the eldest son of Deacon Archibald Coon. Removing with his parents, when about five years of age, he resided for a time in Almond, and then in Independence, N. Y. When about fourteen years of age he removed with his father's family to New Auburn, Minn., where he lived for about twenty-three years, coming to Boulder, Col, in 1887, at which place and vicinity, he has lived most of the time for the past seventeen years. He was married to Emergene Babcock, daughter of Elder Hiram Babcock, about 1874. She preceded him in death, sixteen years. Of his immediate family there remains to mourn the loss of a father, two sons and two daughters. Funeral services were held at the Seventh-day Baptist Church, Boulder, Dec. 29, conducted by the pastor. F. O. B.
