Council Bryant Koonce

1846 - 1919

• Born	23 Nov 1846	North Carolina   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 May 1919	Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina   [1, 2, 3]
  Buried	27 May 1919	Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I1015	Koonce 2
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	Emanuel Jarman Koonce,   b. 1806,   d. 1869
  Mother	Celia
  Family ID	F329	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Sally Ivey Freeman,   b. 01 Mar 1850, Jones County, North Carolina ,   d. 14 Feb 1938, Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina
  Married	17 Mar 1869	Jones County, North Carolina   [4]
  Children	> 1. Leah Catherine Koonce,   b. 08 Jan 1874,   d. 26 Feb 1952, Hookerton, Greene County, North Carolina   2. William Council Koonce   3. Myrtle Koonce > 4. Walter Guy Koonce, Sr. ,   b. 08 Mar 1895, Lenoir County, North Carolina ,   d. 15 Aug 1965, Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina > 5. Lucy L. Koonce,   b. 27 Jul 1885, North Carolina ,   d. 29 Mar 1921, Lenoir County, North Carolina   6. Lewis Simon Koonce   7. Sarah Koonce   8. Joseph L. Koonce
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2009
  Family ID	F330	Group Sheet

  
  

• Documents		1850 Census: Emanuel & Celia Koonce Enumeration Date: 12 Oct 1850 Page:8 Location: Tuckahoe, Jones County, North Carolina #331 1. Koonce, Emanuel - age 44 2. Celia - age 29 3. Elizabeth - age 18 4. Francis G. - age 16, male 5. Hannah - age 11 6. Nancy - age 7 7. Alcy - age 5 8. Counsel - age 3 9. Emanuel - age 2 10. Mary - age 9 months Link to full image.
  		Death Certificate: Council Bryant Koonce Father: Calvin Koonce Occupation: Laborer at Orion Knitting Mills Informant: W.C. Koonce

  
  

  Headstones

  Council B. Koonce is buried in Maplewood Cemetery

  
  

• Notes

  Born: death certificate has 1845 as birth year, but 1850 census has him as 3 years old and his birthday is Nov 23.

  
  

• Sources

  [S81] Maplewood Cemetery. USGenWeb - Lenoir County, NC. http://www.ncgenweb.us/lenoir/cems/maplewoodcem.htm. [S38] North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975, (Ancestry.com), http://is.gd/XSz.. [S69] John Cunitz Descendants GedCom from J.P. Koonce (Somerset, WI). [S22] Gwynn, Zae Hargett. Abstracts of the Records of Jones County, North Carolina, 1779-1868: Volume I. Baltimore, Md: Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co, 1998. http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49310, 959. at the residence of Leah Freeman