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Surnames: Cohn; Reed; Casey
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kUJ.2ACIB/13.21
Message Board Post:
Hello;
I believe you may have been contacted by my son, Richard Phillips with info. about your family. However, I believe he gave you some incorrect information. The info. I have comes from the Falls Co. History book. Wm. M. Cohn/Coone was bn. in 1862 at Henderson, Rusk Co., TX. to Bernard Asher Cohn & Flora Bell (Richey) Cohn. He married Louisa Jane(Lulu) Reed bn.1875-date of death unknown. Louisa Jane and her sister Mary Jo Reed were the daughters of John R. Reed and Eliza (Casey) Reed who died and they were raised by their aunt Amanda (Casey) Cohn who was married to James R. Cohn, a brother of Wm. M. Cohn .
Wm. M and Louisa's (Lula) children were: (1.) Bernard Cohn m. Vera______; (2.) John Cohn m. a miss Loy; (3.) James E. Cohn m. Martha (Williams) who is a sister of Bessie (Williams) Cohn who m. Charlie Clinton Cohn; (4.) Willie Mae Cohn m. (1) to Floyd Smith, m (2) to Ollie Rodgers;(5.) Flora Addie Cohn m. A. B. Carpenter; (6.)(Minnie Cohn m. Herman Powell and had Dorothy Marie Powell and Harry Lane Powell );(7.) Elva Jewel Cohn m. Claude Brinkley;(8.) Jasper Curtis Cohn m. Clara Taylor; (9) Floyd Reed Cohn m (1) to Bobbie Spencer and m.(2.) to Nola ______.
My grandparents were Charles Cohn ( brother of Wm. M. Cohn) who married Mary Jo Reed (sister of Louisa).
The children of Bernard Asher Cohn & Flora (Richey) Cohn were: (1.) Marcus Henry Coone (his branch of the family still use that spelling) m. Sarah Addie Oakes; (2.) Susan Coone m. Lawrence Ferrell; (3.) Sarah Ida Coone m. James W. Gameson; (4.) James R. Cohn m. (1.) to Elizaabeth Hart and had one son, m. (2.) to Amanda C. Casey and reared her nieces Louisa Jane & Mary Jo Reed; (5.) Wm. M. Cohn m. Louisa Jane Reed; (6.) Charles Cohn m. Mary Jo Reed.
Would like for you to contact me, maybe you can fill me in on your family line.