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Note: 1860 census Munroe Twp., Austinville, Livingston, MO: Peter Sutliff aged 21, farmer; wife Lenora aged 22, birthplace KY; Peter aged 2 and Clara aged 1, both born MO. Living together in the same township are Lenora Gudgel's siblings: John aged 26, Benj F. aged 24, Richard aged 17, Love aged 15, and Robt. B. aged 13.
1880 census Dayton Twp., Butte, CA: Lenora Stewart aged 42, head of household; son Peter V. Sutliff aged 21, daughters Clara B. Sutliff, aged 19 and Cynthia P. Sutliff, aged 17, Mary M. Stewart aged 13, and Leonora Stewart aged 9.
1900 census Dayton Twp, Butte, CA: Emmett Coon, aged 40, born Jul 1859, farmer, bp IL, father VA, mother MD; Clara B. aged 39, born Jun 1860, married 15 years, five children w/ five living, bp MO, both parents MO; Jesse E. aged 14, born Dec 1885; Lem H. aged 13, born Feb 1887; William aged 8, born Nov 1891; Allen T. aged 6, born Nov 1892; Homer A. aged 4, born Feb 1896 -- all born CA.
1910 census Dayton Twp, Butte, CA: Emmett Coon aged 50, farmer, bp IL, father OH, mother MD; wife Clara B. aged 49, bp MO, father ME, mother KY; Jesse G. aged 24, Lemuel H. aged 21, William E. aged 18, Allen T. aged 16, and Homer A. aged 15 -- all born CA..
Excerpt from "Family History" by Grace Jamerson Coon - 1976
"Emmett Coon and Clara Sutliff, Jesse's parents, grew up together. They were married on 18 June 1884 in Chico. They had five boys. The land was divided up. Dad Coon had 25 acres, Jesse 10 acres, Allen 10 acres, Lem ten acres, and Homer (Dick) had 15 acres." [End]
Clara was institutionalized on and off beginning in her forties for mental illness. It appears that she was hospitalized at one time in Napa, California, but later in life, she was hospitalized and died in Livermore, Alameda County, California. The first four letters are from her husband Emmet and the fifth letter from a friend Hannah Ivey. It reads as if this friend was in Napa with Clara.
[Letter] Durham Cal. Jan 20th 1903
Dear Wife - I will write you a letter today to let you know that we are all well and I hope this will find you the same. The children are going to school every day. We have not had any rain for some time. Most everyone getting through sowing grain. The weather has been pretty cool. Most of the time foggy. I think we will have some warmer weather pretty soon. Please write me a letter and let me know how you are getting along. From your loving husband - Emmett Coon
[Letter] Durham Cal. May 1st 1903 (Someone has written at the top of the letter "humiliating judge."
Mrs. Clara Coon - Dear Wife - I will write you a letter to let you know we are all well and I hope this will find you the same. I saw Mollie yesterday. She said you had wrote her a letter. We were very glad when Emmie got the letter you wrote him to hear from you. We are doing our own house work. We have had no one since we got our crop in. Clara I will not leave the little boys alone at any time. I will be careful with them as I can be. Well I will write soon again. Write to me from your loving husband - Emmett Coon
[Letter from her son, Lemuel Coon] Durham, May 8, 1903: Dear Mother, I received your letter the other day and was glad to hear from you. The north wind is blowing here today and Jesse is helping ... Troxel to haul hay. In a few days Papa is going to build a porch for Aunt Nora on the house they moved from here. Aunt Nora's baby can talk a little and can walk pretty good. Grandma has got a house rented in Chico and ... is staying up there with her and Aunt Cynthia is down to Aunt Nora's. Cas Cartwright is staying over to Dayton. He just came there with his sheep the other day. I did not here any thing about Jim McEnespy being down there. I have got about a hundred chickens already hatched and some are hatching today. -- We are all well now and hope that you are much better. Your son, Lemuel, Durham, Butte, Cal
[Letter from her son, Jesse G. Coon] Durham, May 13, 1903 - Dear Mother, I received your letter this evening and was glad to hear from you. This leaves us all well and I hope it will find you the same. It looks cloudy, here this evening, as if we were going to have some needed rain. Father wrote you a letter yesterday and I guess it will reach you before this one does. There are going to be good crops here this year especially in the fruit. The straw-berries are just getting ripe. --- Papa says that just as soon as the Doctors say that you are sufficiently able to come home, he will start right down and bring anything that you want. I do not think it will be very long. --- I will put in two sheets of writing paper in this letter. -- I cannot think of any more to write now so I will close so, Good-bye with love from all. Your affectionate son, Jesse G. Coon.
[Letter] Durham, Cal May 14, 1903
Dear Wife - I will write you a few lines today to let you know we are all well and I hope it will find you the same. I thought we were going to have some rain but it turned out to be north wind which is blowing very hard now. Mr. Scribner has sold his store to Mr. Nelson the Butcher and Mr. Nelson is runing the store now. Mr. Scribner is living in Durham yet. The Diamond Match Co. is building their railroad from Chico up in the mountains and we can hear them blasting the rocks in the foothills. There is lots of men and teams at work on the railroad. They are going to build the road 2 or 3 miles the other side of Lovelock and build a town at the end which they are going to name Sterling. There is lots of new buildings going up in Chico. There is quite a boom in Chico. Well, Clara I cant think of any more to write now so I will close for this time. Write soon. From your loving husband, Emmett Coon, Durham, Cal.
[Letter] Durham, Cal, May 15, 1903: Dear Wife - I received your kind and welcome letter yesterday. This leaves us all well and I hope it will find you feeling better. I will send your magazine today. Do not get discouraged Dear wife, but have faith in your doctors, your attendants, and your husband and you shall return home in a little while. I will take the best of care of the children. From your loving Husband, Emmett Coon, Durham, Cal.
[Letter] Durham, Cal, May 21st, 1903: Dear Wife -- I received your kind and welcome letter yesterday. This leaves us all well & I hope it will find you well. If I only knowed when I could come after you I would tell you. I am just as anxious to come after you as you are to come home. I will come just as soon as I can. We are having some very cool weather now. I will keep the boys at home untill you come home. Furthermore, I will see that they all keep well if it is in my power to do so and I think it is. Every day shortens the time between now and the time you shall come home and the time will soon be here. Write soon. From you loving husband, Emmett Coon.
[Letter] Durham Cal May 22nd 1903
Dear Wife - I will write you a few lines today to let you know we are all well and I hope this will find you well. In my answer to your last letter I forgot to tell you that our school closes today. This is the last day the children are at school. The weather is very cool now. It is cloudy and looks like we will have some rain in a day or two. From your loving Husband - write soon Emmett Coon.
[Letter] Durham, Cal, May 24, no year: Dear Mother: I received your letter yesterday and I will answer it this morning. We are all well and I hope you are the same. -- The north wind is blowing here today, and it is pretty cold. We had a few showers of rain two or three days ago. -- Grandma has bought Mr. Scribner's place in Durham. She paid $850 for it. Scribner is going back across the river some place to live. She does not get possession of the place until the middle of July. -- I cannot tell just when papa will come down but I do not think it will be very long. -- School was out in Durham Friday and Willie and Allen and Homer all got promoted to another grade. -- That breaking out that we all had did not amount to anything on Lemmie's and my face. -- Well I cannot think of anything more so I will close for this time. Good bye, From your son, Jesse G. Coon.
[Letter] Durham, Cal, May 31st 1903: Dear Wife, I will write you a letter today to let you know we are all well and I hope this will find you well. I have got my hay cut and ready for hauling. Mr. Albert Wahl is building himself a new 2 story house. You asked me about your rings they were on your fingers when I left you at the Hospital. I think they have taken care of them and I think you will get them. I can't think of much of anything to write today so I will quit for this time. Write soon to me. From your loveing husband, Emmett Coon.
[Letter] My Dear Wife - (no date) - I received your kind and welcome letter yesterday. I will be there next Saturday or Monday to see you. No I have not sold my mountain place nor do I think I will unless compelled to. I think from what I hear that Hiram is a going to run the hay press alone this summer. Dear wife there is no person that could induce me to leave you there after you was ready to come home. I did not send you there simply to get rid of you either. I intended for you obtain medical aid which would bring about your recovery in every way if possible. So if you can wait untill Saturday or Monday I will be there. This leaves us all pretty well and I hope it will find you well. From your loving Husband - Emmett Coon, Durham, Cal.
[Prescription on Napa State Hospital Stationery] June 8th, 1903. For Mrs. Coon. Mix equal parts of Rochelle salts and cream of tarter of this mixture take a sufficient quantitity every morning in a glassfull of water to move the bowels once.-- do not allow yourself to become overheated, if the head should feel full and face flushed -- soak legs in hot-water. Be sure to do this. Dr. Pulsefer, M.D.
[Letter] Napa June 9th - Mrs. Clara B. Coon - Dear Friend, I can't tell you how we miss you. We did not get a chance to talk with you yesterday. I hated to come in knowing you were gone. Now dear girl I know it will take all your spare time for awhile to get Mr. Coon all right again, and then we look for a little from you. Mr. Purdu arrived Tuesday or Wed, but Mrs. Purdu refused to go with him she wanted an attendent to go with them so I can't say what'll Mrs. Purdu decide to do. She is till here but we have not seen anything of him after she refused to go with him. I have Mrs. Marty for roomate and am little ...you know. (Mrs. Dieffenbacher .. and myself seems to be turned .. our home. There is something so quieting about you. I suppose you are very happy to be at home with your dear ones again. What kind of a trip did you have? It has been quite cool here this past week here. I am sorry you didn't take the linen ruffle with you. We have just been easting on cherries. We were up in the orchard today. I expect Mr. Ivey over tomorrow to see me. Hoping this will find you all well and happy. I close. Love from all. Your friend Hannah Ivey [*]
[*] Hannah Ivey appears in the 1900 census as a patient in the Livermore Sanitarium, Alameda County, CA. She was born c1866 in Germany, father born Germany, mother left blank.
[Letter from Andrew J. Sutliff to niece Clara Sutliff Coon] Bogard, [Carroll County], MO RFD 4, Box 50, March 22nd, 1906: Dearest Niece, I will send you that deed for you all to sign. You will see that your mother will half [sic] to sign her name first for she had a dowery in the land and once as the Guardina of Van. Go before a Notary Public to sign the deed, then send it back to me and I will hold it until Mr. Wooden pays me the money, then I will give him the deed and then I will send you the money. -- We re all as well as common hoping you are all well and dooing well and are having plenty of snow and pretty colde weather for the 22 of March 1906. When you write to me again tell us how Van is getting along. Have this work done as soon as convenient for life is unserten. I will register the deed and this letter to you and when you send the deed back to me do it the same way. Hoping to hear from you soon. I remain your uncle as ever, Andrew J. Sutliff.
[Letter from Bogard, [Carroll County], MO, A. J. & E. T. Sutliff to niece, Clara Sutliff Coon, January 22nd, 1907, RFD 4, Box 50 -- Dearist niece & family one & all -- I once more will attempt to write you a few lines. Pleas excuse us for not writin sooner. We do hope these few lines will find you all well & doing well. We are not very well. I am still crippled with my afflictions, your aunt has the rheumatism ... but some times we are having considerable bad winter weather lately. Last week we had an awful sleet, the ground was covered with ice for about a week. A person could hardly go about attall. There was a good many people fell and crippled themselves. Neather one of us fell. I never went out much and your aunt Prussia Butler had a stroak of paralysis the first of last April. I have not heard from her since last July. Your uncle John Wooden had a stroak of paralysis last August on his right side. He is ..getting along very well. He can walk a little by holding to a chair with one hand & cain in the other. He is still blind and almost 80 years old. We hear from them every day over the phone line. Your uncle Walter Sutliffs family was all well the last letter that we got from them about 6 weeks ago. The last last that we heard from your cousin John Bryan, he lived in New Mexico. He was having the rheumatism awful bad. The balance of your cousins was well the last that we heard. We have not heard from the folkes in Iowa for a long time. We will mail to you today a photo of myself and your aunt and Frona on the left of her & her husband on my right & Dick Appleberry, our adopted son & his wife behind him and their baby Tiz? is behind us. He is our .... He says he does like his going. He is a smart child. Dick & his wife is awful good to us old folks. The baby's name is Emmet. Graham you aunt says that she is still a waiting to hear from Synthia & your mother, but she doesn't hear any thing. My ... is all right, your aunt says that I put her in mind of a little boy with his first pare of pants on with pockets in them. Well I will half to close for this time. That Mr. E. J. Wooden is very low with consumption. They don't think that he can live much longer than spring. Well Clara, we have not saw anything of that family ... yet but we hope to before long. Well Clara, I am getting so nervous & will half to close. Pleas write soon. I tell the balance of the folks to write.. Be shure & tell us how Van is . By By, your uncle & aunt, A. J. & E. T. Sutliff. Mrs. Clara B. Coon & all.
[Letter from Clara Milligan of Newville, Glenn County, CA to Clara Sutliff Coon, March 8, 1911: "Dear Friend Clara: I have been looking and looking for a letter, but have not got it yet, so will write to see what is the matter. If you wrote, I know we did not get the letter this time. We have just been having one of the worse storms we have had for years, awful high water. Took part of the bridge out at Newville. I thought it would kill all of the lambs. I think we lost about 15 or 20 out of our little bunch. I guess the water was high over that way too. I expect we will hear of lots of damage done. The grass is growing fine. Have you any chicken hens setting yet. I have not, but I guess I will set two as soon as it drys of some. Eggs are only 15 cts a dozen now.
"John Shelton has got out of the store at Newville and gone through with what little he had I guess. I heard he was in Sacramento working for an auto company. I heard his wife had left him and was living with another man, she is a regular high flyer. Well Clara I do not know much news to write. I was so sorry to hear about Nora and her family. It is too bad. I think they had ought to hang that fellow. Mildred was such a nice appearing little girl. It will be pretty hard on your mother and Cynthia. Has mother and her family come back from Oregon? I see by the papers Chico is a tough place. Boys and girls running around all times of night. Well it is pretty nice this morning... sure makes things feel good. I hope it will keep on shining. Alice and her family were all well. I have not seen her for over a week. I have fun piecing a quilt this rainy weather, what time I had. Well Clara I see by the papers they think the woman will get to vote. Do you think you will if you get the privilege? I think I will. Bertha Shultz has awful poor health. She had a slight attack of paralysis on the start. I want to plant a little garden truck as soon as the ground gets ice fix. Well I will close hoping to hear from you soon, as I am anxious to know what is the matter that you have not wrote. I hope this will find you all well. Now Clara, write soon and tell me all the news. Give my regards to all with love to you. From your true friend, Clara Milligan. "You can see I was in a hurry, as I got this upside down. (her writing paper).
[Letter from Nettie Coon, Clara's sister-in-law, married to Allen Thurman Coon, Emmett's brother.] Paradise, Cal. Oct. 12, 1914. Dear Clara. I will write you a few lines this evening. When are you coming up? Hope Emmett will soon have his new machine fixed up, then you must come up. -- Mr. Steifer came and got the cattle the next day after I came home. He took them all up above Magalia, he is going to keep them there a while and then take them down to the Wicks place. -- Old "logue" ( the saddle horse) stuck his foot in the barbed wire fence yesterday and cut it something terriable [sic], he seemed to suffer awfully with it last night, but is better today. I did not put anything on it, it looks pretty bad. --- I have been over to town once since I came home, and over after the amil, a couple of times. I am going after the mail again tomorrow, I have been washing today. -- Mr. and Mrs. Chevous came over last week and bought some roofing. --- I don't know when I will be down again, I haven't had my wagon repaired yet. -- Have you seen the new comet? I was looking at it tonight with the field glasses you can see it real plain with them. -- I suppose the boys are all through with the prune business, and you have them all at home. -- I have been answering letters since I came home, have written about ten, and have two more to ans. yet. -- Well I will close for this time. With love to you all, From Nettie Coon.
The following reflects a distribution to Clara Coon's estate from the estate of her mother:
Cynthia P. Sutliff [Clara's sister] was the Administratrix of her mother's estate (Lenorah M. Sutliff, formerly Lenorah M. Stewart). On 14 March 1916 there was a distribution of Lenorah's estate, which consisted of $7,430.62 in cash and property described as "All that certain real property situate, lying and being in the County of Butte, State of California, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: The Southwest quarter of the Northwest quarter and the Northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter of Section Twenty six (26), Township (21) North, Range One (1) East, M.D.M., containing Eighty (80) acres of land, which was appraised at the sum of $250.00 per acre; also a strip of land Twenty-four (24) feet wide on and across the North side of the South East quarter of the North West quarter of Section Twenty-six (26), Township Twenty-one (21), North, Range One (1) East, M.D.M.
One-fifth of the estate went to V.C. Sutliff, a son 57 whose residence was unknown at the time; Clara Coon, a daughter, deceased - Emmett Coon, Administrator of Clara's estate; Cynthia a daughter 53 residing in Durham; Mary M. Atteberry; a daughter 47 of Dayton; and Nora Brooks, a daughter 44 of Durham.
On 23 October 1916 the land was partitioned and Parcel 5 containing approximately 16.20 acres was deeded to Clara's estate (Emmett Coon, administrator). The land was described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of the Northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter of Section 26, Township 21 North, Range 1 East, M.D.B.&M., running thence, south 89 degrees 10 minutes East along the South line of the said Northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter 20.22 chains to the Southeast corner thereof, running thence, North 0 degrees 07 minutes West along the East line of the said Norwest quarter of the Southwest quarter 7.99 chains, running thence, North 89 degrees 01 minutes West, 20.20 chains to the West line of the said Northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter, running thence, South along the said line 8.04 chains to the point of beginning.
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