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Catherine Koons

Female Abt 1772 - 1859  (~ 87 years)


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  • Name Catherine Koons 
    Born Abt 1772  of Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 8 Feb 1859  Rushville, Fairfield, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Rushville, Fairfield, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2458  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Johannes or John Stocker,   b. 4 Jan 1772, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Apr 1846, Rushville, Fairfield, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Married Bef 1802  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1414  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Per Ancestral File v.4.19 unverified by me thus far.

      2. George Koons, who married Mary Eller, is Catherine's first cousin. George's father, Gasper Koons, and grandfather Devault Koons were in Frederick Co., MD prior to NC. John Koon, another son of Devault Koons, was the father of Catherine Koons per his will. See notes for the immigrant Johann Michael Stocker, b. 1730, for information about the common origins of several Kuntz families and our Stocker family in Preuschdorf, Germany. One of these Preuschdorf Kuntz immigrants, Hans Michael Cuntz, is possibly the same one who was with Dewald Kuntz on the 1750 immigrant ship "Phoenix." The following is my abstract from Anna Burgert's book "Eighteenth Century Emigrants of the Northern Alsace":
      Entry #92. This is entry is for "Cuntz, Hans Michael" who was from Preuschdorf and is possibly the same person shown on the ship "Dragon" arriving 17 Oct 1749 (Strassburger-Hinke I:423) or on the ship "Phoenix" arriving 1750 (S-H, I:440) with Dewald Kuntz. The name Dewald Kuntz is significant because this is the immigrant whose progeny marries with our family (see the next note below). As for Michael Cuntz who was born Dec 1710, he was the son of Hans Diebold/Theobald Cuntz of Preuschdorf and his second wife Anna Logel. Michael marries 9 May 1730 Anna Eva Bender, dau. of Hans Jacob Bender of Langensoultzbach. Their marriage record has a later notation indicating "went to the new land. Michael had 8 children with half born in Preuschdorf and the other half in Langensoultzbach. In America he is later found in Philadelphia. The book does not give the whereabouts of Dewald Kuntz, but we do find that name in Frederick.

      3. Variations in various genealogies include Koonse, Koontz, Koonce, Coonce, Coons, Kuntz, and Kountz.

      4. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 159-171, in regards to the association of Ellers, Koons, Stoker, and Dick families: "The Koons Family of Randolph and Ashe Counties, North Carolina probably descended from Dewald Kuntz who came to Pennsylvania on the ship 'Phoenix' and took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennslvania 28 Aug 1750. (Penn. Archives, 2nd. series, Vol. 17.) According to an account of the family in the 'History of Henry County, Indiana,' p. 1163, by George Hazzard, 1906, Devault Koons, a native of Pennsylvania, married the widow Susan Dick, a native of Germany, whose husband died at sea while crossing to America. The account continues my naming three of their sons... The above account on the origin of the family is rendered doubtful, in one or two respects, by certain records found in the courthouse of Frederick, (Frederick Co.) Maryland. There we find a deed dated 21 Nov 1755 in which Devall Conce (sic) and his wife Margaret sold 70 acres of land on Grooses branch in Frederick Co. to Jacob Gallman. (Book E, p. 916) Another deed dated 2 Feb 1756 (Book E., p. 990) shows Devault Coons (sic) and Richard Kee leasing from Edward Matthias 100 acres of land on Abraham Creek at the foot of Kittocton Mountain called 'Davis Delight.' Still another deed dated 22 Aug 1770 (Book N, p. 305) shows Devalt Coons (sic) and Margaret his wife selling a lot in Sharpsburg to William Flick. The variation in the spelling of the name was due perhaps to the fact that the signatures were by marks making it necessary for the scriveners to write the name according to the way it sounded when spoken.
      It could be said, of course, that the Dewald (Devault, Devall, Devalt) Kuntz (Koons, Conce, Coonce, Coons, Koontz) of Frederick Co., Md. was not the same as Devault (Davault) Koons of Hazzard's 'History of Henry Co., IN,' but when one notes that the Eller, Dick and Stoker families also lived in Frederick Co., MD contemporaneously with the Koons family and that members of all of these families later removed to the same county in North Carolina and intermarried and considering the uncommon name of Devault that appeared in both places, we can hardly escape believing that they were the same. This writer believes that the History of Hazzard errs in saying that Devault Koons the first, was a native of Pennsylvania, implying that he was born there and suggests that the Susan Dick account by Hazzard probably should have included the statement that she was Devault Koon's second wife or that her full name was Margaret Susan Dick, not just Susan Dick..."
      Note that I have reviewed the subject book and do not find Catherine Koons listed. See notes for George Koons in this database for more notes on the Koons family.

      5. FHL book 929.273 "Some Descendants of Michael Stoker 1731-1819," compiled by Kathleen Stoker Overton (ca. 2003?), p. 46. This book does a good job of tracing several non-Mormon descendancy lines from the original immigrant. The death date for Catherine looks erroneous:
      "Johannes (John) Stoker
      John Stoker was born on 4 January 1772 in Frederick, Maryland to Johan Michael Stoker and Elizabeth Fahs. The family lived in a German community and John was baptized on 9 Feb 1772 in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in downtown Frederick. His mother died following childbirth when John was five years old. His Father soon remarried and the new wife helped raise him. He probably had some schooling as he could read and write and was educated. John was confirmed at the age of 19 on 22 April 1791 in the Lutheran Church. John married Catherine Coons about 1800 in Frederick, Maryland. Catherine was born about 1775 also in Maryland. She is mentioned in the will of her Father, John Coons, of Frederick, Maryland as Catherina Stoker. The will was proved on 6 March 1817.
      Sometime after 1805 John and his family together with his Father and other family members moved from Maryland to Perry County, Ohio. John established a nice farm in Perry County but when the county split it became part of Fairfield County. He wrote a will which was proved on 25 May 1846. John is very precise in how he divides the things he owns. His son William owed him some money and so he was left only $1.00. John died 19 April 1846 in Rushville in Fairfield County. Catherine died 8 February 1850 and both of them are buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Rushville, Fairfield County, Ohio. It is a lovely cemetery on a hill overlooking the surrounding area.
      Their children are…"

      MARRIAGE:
      1. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 88-97: "Michael Stoker, doubtless, was the son of Michael Stoker (Stocker) who settled in Frederick Co., Md. about the middle of the 18th century. No other family of the Stoker (Stocker) name was found by this writer in any of the early Frederick Co. records. The 18th century translated records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. established about 1746, show many Michael Stoker (Stocker) entries...
      Page 564 of the translated church records at Maryland Hist. Soc. - Johannes, son of Joh. Michael and Elizabeth Stoker, b. 4 Jan 1772 and baptized 9 Feb 1772. (Note by JWH - p. 233 of the church records show that Johannes Stocker, aged 19, was confirmed on 22 Apr 1791. A translated record of the German Reformed Church of Frederick Co., Md., p. 196, found at the Gen. Soc. in SLC shows a child Marianna Stocker, was born to Johannes and Catherina Stocker 10 Aug 1809. Susan Kuntz (Frentz) was her godmother. A Catherina Stoker (sic) is mentioned as a dau. in the will of John Coons (sic) of Frederick Co., Md. dated 23 Dec. 1816 and proved 6 Mch. 1817. (Liber H.S, No. 2, p. 55, Frederick Co., Md. Wills.))

      2. Per old Ancestral File, sometimes Catherine Schuh would show as a separate wife for John Stoker. No documentation ever given. May be an early variation on Catherine Coons.