Coonen, James Louis

1869 - 1958  (88 years)

• Name	Coonen, James Louis  [1, 2]
  Birth	18 Jun 1869	Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  1870 Census	1870	Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Page 12
  Listed living with parents a ge 1, name listed as Jacob
  	1870 Census Buchanan page 12 Outagamie County, Wisconsin
  1880 Census	1880	Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Page 08a
  Listed living with parents a ge 10
  News Mention	13 Nov 1895
  Kaukauna Times
  1895 Kaukauna Times dated 11/13/1895; Mr James Coonen made a flying trip to Kaukauna Saturday.Katie Coonen, Cecelia Bruehn? and Mr. James Coon en visited relatives in Buchanan on Sunday
  1900 Census	1900	Woodville, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
  Page 13b
  Listed living ne xt door to Peter Peters Family and Barney Micke familiesListed age as 30 born June 1869, living with wife and 1 child and broth er George. Listed occupation as merchant.
  News Mention	16 May 1902
  Kaukauna Times
  1902 Kaukauna Times dated 5/16/1902; The Coonen Bros. store in Dundas w as completely destroyed by fire at 10 PM last Saturday night. Loss is e st at 6-7 thou., insurance will cover $4000.
  1910 Census	1910	Woodville, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
  Page 02a
  Listed living with wife Nellie and 6 children, age 41, married 11 yearsListed occupation as Salesman at General store. Next door was listed brother George and his family.
  1920 Census	1920	Woodville, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
  Page 11a
  Occupation as merchant at General Store, Listed a ge as 50 Listed living with wife and 10 children, next door to George Coonen Family. Listed born in Wisconsin, parents bo rn in Netherlands,
  1930 Census	1930	Woodville, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
  ED 18, page 13a
  James Coonen 60 Nellie Coonen 52 Lester Coonen 23 Hildgard Coonen 21 Germane Coonen 18 Catherine Coonen 27 Norbert Coonen 16 Jerome Coonen 14 Grace Coonen 12 James Coonen 9 Willard Coonen 6
  Death	1 Jun 1958	Holland, Brown, Wisconsin, USA   [1]
  Obituary	2 Jun 1958
  Green Bay Press Gazette
  	Coonen, James L. Obituary Green Bay Press Gazette June 2, 1958
  Burial	Aft 1 Jun 1958	St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, Hollandtown, Wisconsin, USA
  	St Francis Church cemetery tombstone COONEN, Father James L. 1869-1958, Mother Petronella 1877-1938, Daughter Katherine 1902-1986 Sec 2 Row 6 Lot 6 1869-1958
  		Coonen, James Louis St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, Hollandtown, Wisconsin, USA
  News Mention	Abt Jun 1986
  Kaukauna Times
  The following is an excerpt from an article written by Lester P. Coonen a nd published in the Kaukauna Times in June 1986. In our very small town of Dundas, transportation was hardly taken for gran ted a half century ago. School and church were remote; both were in a neig hboring town. There were twelve children in our family, and a varie ty of transportation challenges. In retrospect, each of our vehicles wa s, in its own way a jewel.We had a Dolson, the first auto in our town, but we didn't use it on Sunda ys because of its threat to our business. (My dad and Uncle George) h ad a general merchandise and farm implement store.) Buggy horses wou ld be frightened and farmers were scornful of the puffing, smoking gadge t. In fact, some buggy- riding farmers refused to share the road if they w ere approached from the rear. The Dolson was our weekday, business car, d riven proudly by Uncle George.For a long time Frank was our sole Sunday transportation. Frank was our ho rse, our OAT-A-MOBILE. He endured up through my mid-teen years. Three gas hes in the fur of his right flank told of his bronco heritage. That roman tic ancestry, however, was not otherwise evident in his appearance. He lo oked old, decrepit and hangdog. Since he refused a checkrein, which wou ld have forced his head high and proud, he drooped his loose-lipped bla ck head and shaggy-maned neck very low, as though he were perpetually look ing for whatever he might find in the dust of a country road. A crackof t he whip was good for only a half-minute acceleration, after which he resum ed his lazy sleep-walking trot. A piece of paper on the roadside, howeve r, momentarily whisked along by the wind, would startle him and transfo rm him suddenly into a fiery western steed, dancing laterally, and snorti ng into high gear. But only very briefly.Bales of hay went into Frank - energy of a sort - and garden fertilizer ca me out. He was important, and he seemed to know it. That made him at on ce our friend and our enemy. Several times, when we needed his hoof-pow er to take us to church, the barn door was found open and, instead of Fran k, a blank. We would devise new guards for the stable door lock. It beca me a game of wits: horse against man. He would fit his aging teeth in to or behind the mechanism of the lock, open it and trot away. He wasn't m ean or spiteful in this I think just a lover of freedom, and grass.We sold buggies, and whips and blankets and harnesses in our implement bus iness.
  News Mention	Abt 1998
  1998 Coonen Family Newsletter
  1998 Coonen Family Newsletter; Dundas was the home of James and Patronel la Coonen. Mr. Coonen, known as Pa to nearly half of the Dundas residen ts was the Proprietor of the General Store. Jim sold groceries, feed f or your animals, coal for the furnace, clothing, and hardware. His fami ly of 7 boys and 5 girls were active in the area. The boys all partici¬pa ted in the business, acting as sales agents and roofing agents. In 195 3, as Pa was 84 years old, the store was sold at auction on July24th.To give you an idea of the size of the home place, the property in¬clud ed a 9 room flat upstairs, a 10 room house, a 24'x60' frame building, a 15 x15' frame garage, 15x60' coal shed, a 16x27' feed shed a 18x24' storage s hed and a 20x30' barn. All this was on a one acre of land at the side of t he railroad tracks. A truck scale was located at the back of the store. Y ou did not have any prob¬lem finding a beer in Dundas with a bar on eith er side of the Coonen General Store. Dundas is not a large populated plac e, but a small crossroads. Back in the early part of the century, its' pop ulation was primarily Coonen.
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  Last Modified	28 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	Coonen, Martin,   b. 22 Dec 1840, Reek, , Noord-Brabant, Netherlands d. 21 Jan 1915, Darboy, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Verstegen, Johanna Catharina "Kate",   b. 29 Jun 1849, Zeeland, , Noord-Brabant, Netherlands d. 2 May 1918, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F33423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Biese, Petronella "Nellie",   b. 25 Aug 1877, Holland, Brown, Wisconsin, USA d. 13 Nov 1938, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	21 Jun 1898	Holland, Brown, Wisconsin, USA   [2]
  News Mention (Family)	24 Jun 1898
  Kaukauna Times
  1898 Kaukauna Sun dated 6/10/1898; It was announced at St. Francis Chur ch that the marriage of James Coonen and Nellie Biese will take place on J une 21. 1898 Kaukauna Times dated 6/24/1898; Marriage of Miss Nellie Biese a nd Mr James Coonen was solemnized at the Hollandtown Catholic Church la st Tuesday. The bride is a sister of our townsman Peter Biese, who with h is family attended the festival which was held at the house of the brid es parents. The newly wedded couple will reside in Dundas.
  Children	+ 1. Coonen, Henry Johann,   b. 7 Apr 1899, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 28 Oct 1979, Menasha, Winnebago, Wisconsin, USA (Age 80 years) + 2. Coonen, Martha,   b. 30 Aug 1900, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 24 Jul 1972, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 71 years)   3. Coonen, Katherine E.,   b. 4 Sep 1902, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 18 Mar 1986, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 83 years) + 4. Coonen, Edgar J.,   b. 1 Sep 1904, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 29 Nov 1986, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA (Age 82 years) + 5. Coonen, Lester Peter,   b. 4 Apr 1907, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 5 Dec 1989, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson, Wisconsin, USA (Age 82 years) + 6. Coonen, Hildergarde Anna,   b. 23 Feb 1909, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 5 Dec 1996, New Holstein, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA (Age 87 years) + 7. Coonen, Germain Margaret,   b. 1 Sep 1911, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 12 Dec 1998, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA (Age 87 years) + 8. Coonen, Norbert Henry,   b. 10 May 1914, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 19 May 1991, Woodstock, Mchenry, Illinois, USA (Age 77 years) + 9. Coonen, Jerome Lloyd,   b. 21 Apr 1916, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 23 Oct 1997, Oshkosh, Winnebago, Wisconsin, USA (Age 81 years) + 10. Coonen, Grace,   b. 30 Apr 1918, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 10 Aug 1994, Roseville, Malcomb, Michigan, USA (Age 76 years) + 11. Coonen, James W.,   b. 23 Aug 1920, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 30 Aug 2007, Westerville, Franklin, Ohio, USA (Age 87 years) + 12. Coonen, Willard Francis,   b. 24 Jul 1923, Dundas, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 26 Feb 2012, West Bend, Washington, Wisconsin, USA (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F3525	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2015

  
  

• Sources

  [S13] Gedcom import from Biesetemp2.FTW. [S46] Gedcom import from CoonenFamily.GED.