Lucetta Coon Hunting was born at West Edmeston, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1836, and died at Alfred, N. Y. Jan. 30, 1901.
She was the youngest of the seven children of Ezra and Abigail Millard Coon. She was baptized and joined the church at about fifteen years of age. She attended school at De Ruyter Institute, and afterward at Alfred University, where she graduated in 1860. In 1862 she was married to Rev. J. P. Hunting, then pastor of the church at West Edmeston. Going West about 1870, she became affiliated in turn with the churches at Welton, Ia., Pardee, (now Nortonville) Kan., and Villa Ridge, Ill. From the latter she brought her membership to the First Alfred church in 1888, where it has since remained. Of her brothers and sisters, four, Harlow M. Coon, Cyrena E. Burdick, Phoebe L. Bassett and Prof. Henry C. Coon, have passed on before, while Martha and Morell Coon of Leonardsville, N. Y., survive her. The husband and five of the six children remain to cherish her memory. She was a loving, devoted and faithful woman, in the home, a beloved sister and friend, an exemplary Christian. By request in the inability of the pastor, Pres. Davis preached from Jer. 15:14, "Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you."
L.C.R.
