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Author: JTMaitland
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Which children does Grace Cahoon mention in her will? Here is the Biographical record of
the Cahoon family. Please contact me at LCM75(a)netscape.com
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilbiog/boone/oscohoon.htm: Portrait & Biographical Record
Winnebago & Boone Cos., IL. Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co., 1892, pp 1207-1208.
Orville S. Cahoon
Orville S. COHOON, a well known and enterprising farmer of Boone County [IL], residing in
Flora Township, section 12, is a native of PA, born in Green Township, Erie County, 29 Oct
1833. His father, John COHOON, was born in the town of Milo, Yates County, NY, 20 Mar
1812, and passed the first eight years of his life in his father's home on the banks
of Seneca Lake, whence he removed with his parents to Erie County, PA.
The paternal grandparents of our subject, Steward and Charity (CULVER) COHOON, were
natives respectively of CT and England. The grandfather moved from his birthplace to the
State of NY at an early day, and was an officer in the War of 1812. He married Miss
Charity CULVER for his second wife, and in March 1820 removed from Yates County, NY, with
ox teams and sleds, and settled with his large family in Erie County, PA, becoming one of
the pioneers of the highlands and dense forests of that county. He remained there until
his death, which occurred at Gospel Hill about 1840. His wife died in Columbia County,
WI, 10 Jan 1855, at the advanced age of 87. The paternal great grandfather of our
subject, Nathaniel COHOON, was born in CT, and tradition says that his parents were
Hollanders. He died and was buried in Mill Creek Township, Erie County, PA, in Jan 1827.
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