Comments on: Update on Jeffrey Wayne Koonce

By: Lacrecia Williams

Lacrecia Williams — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:14:08 +0000

Sidney Koonce was the brother of my great grandmother Plassie. I have heard that Henry was perhaps a slave owner, we believe that he was actually mixed but he does look white. He and Elizabeth had several children and we don’t know what happened to all of them. Legend also has it that Henry was the superintendent of schools(not too sure about that) and that he was a postal carrier which was told to me by his daughter Lucille Hughes son Allen. He said that he would ride the mail wagon with his grandfather. I don’t remember my grandfather ever saying much about him. My great Grandmother, Plassie said that Sidney passed as white and got his hair cut in a white barbershop and when they found out he left Jackson county, Fl and went to New Jersey. Perhaps this will all fit together and make sense somehow.

By: janet dixon

janet dixon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:20:30 +0000

Yes, there is! My great great grandfather Henry Koonce was German or white; he changed the spelling of his last name from Koontz to Koonce, because it was more accepted being that we were at war with Germany. He was a slavery owner, who got my great grandmother Elizabeth Ellis whom was an Indiana, pregnant, but took responsibility and raised my grandfather Sidney Koonce as his own, given him his last name. My grandfather Sidney Koonce, would eat dinner at the master table with his family and his father acknowledged him as his son to everyone. Jeffrey Koonce is my mother’s brother, who died before I was born. But Jeffrey also left behind a daughter named Florrie, whom he never got to know.

By: Sidney E. Koonce Jr.

Sidney E. Koonce Jr. — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:02:13 +0000

Thank you for the interest and the contact for you have made tears fall from my face because I have not seen a photo of my uncle in over 35 years. The only fact that I can say is Jeffrey W. Koonce is part of my family and I am not familiar with any Koonce’s born that long ago (1800′s) from Alabama, I have always known my Great Grand Father Sidney Koonce to be from Germany. But you may ask another Family member on my list of friends. Maybe Janet might know?