Koons (Surname)

Name Meaning & Origin

• Ancestry Name Meaning

Additional Variations of name

• Koon (surname)
• Kuhn (surname)
• Koone (surname)

Cemetery records

• Tombstone inscriptions of Newman’s Creek Cemetery (Ohio, Stark County, Lawrence Township)
• Burial record for John and Rebecca Koons Chapel of Cross United Methodist Church Cemetery (Ohio, Stark County, Lawrence Township)
• Burial record for Margaret Thomas who died in 1889. She was the possible spouse of Louis/LewisThomas.

Census records

• 1870 and 1880 US Census for Margaret and Louis Thomas.
• Abstracted page of the 1850 and 1860 US census for this family
• 1850 and 1870 US Census for William and Eliza/Elizabeth Painter. In 1850, the family was in Butler County, Pennsylvania. In 1870, the family was in Chester Township, Wayne County, Ohio. I am not sure of their residence in 1860.
• 1850 US Census for John and Esther Painter, Catharine Byers
• 1860 & 1870 US Census for John and Susan Painter
• 1870 US Census for Daniel and Sarah Painter, David and Emily Painter

Probate Court records

• Select page from John Koons Probate Court file 4204 showing his heirs
• Probate Court file # 5816 for John Painter

Tax list records

• In the 1837 tax list, I did find a Catherine Painter listed as owning in-lot 14 in Edenburg, Ohio (now Apple Creek, Ohio East Union Township, Wayne County, Ohio. I find her owning this lot as early as the 1833 tax list. I have no idea how she fits in with the other Painter families found here in Wayne County, Ohio.

Vital records

• Stark County, Ohio Death Records for the Koon/Kuhn and Thomas surnames
• Wayne County, Ohio Marriage Index 1813-1898 for the Koon/Kuhn and Painter (surnames)
• Obituaries on Mrs. Hester Koone and Ephraim Edman Koons
• Information on the William and Eliza Painter family
• Death record of Elizabeth Painter who died 3 July 1867
• Burial record for Eliza/Elizabeth Painter indicates she was wife of William Painter.
• Death and burial record for Hattie Painter. I believe she is descendant from this family.
• Death certificate for Milton Painter b. 1844 d. 1923. He is the son of William Painter and Mary Martin. He was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania and died in Ashland County, Ohio. He was with William and Eliza in 1870 Census.
• Death certificate for Emrick H. Painter. He was born in 1841 PA and died 1910 in Wayne Co, OH. His parents were listed as William and Eliza Brewer Painter. He was in the 1850 census with William and Eliza Painter.
• Burial record for Mary C. Painter, 3 month old daughter of William and Eliza Painter. In Wayne Co, OH William Painter married Eliza Richard. This appears to be a different William and Eliza than the one listed in 1850 Butler County, Pennsylvania
• Burial record for Painter
• I have tried to find the parents of Elizabeth Kuhn(s) who married John Painter. There marriage is recorded here but they seem to disappear without a trace. I looked at the early census records for Wayne County, OH for the surname Coon(s)/Koon(s)/Kuehn/ Kuhn/ Kohn hoping to find possibilities. Based on the research, I can eliminate John Kuhn/Coon, Peter Koon, John Koons, and Barbara Coon. I looked through the 1837 tax list for the surname Koon hoping to find some clues. I did find an Augustus Henry Kohn married to a Catherine M. Following up on this name, Augustus appears to have four children: Augustus Henry Kohn, Joseph Schultze Kohn, Hanna Ravensberg Kohn, and Catherine Louisa Kohn. Augustus did in 1833 so this would have been before the marriage of Elizabeth. He left property to his wife and children and to his grandson he left a gold watch. I believe he can be eliminated from the pool of possibilities.