Robert Wesley Koonce

1899 - 1989  (90 years)

• Name	Robert Wesley Koonce  [1, 2]
  Born	14 Mar 1899	Missouri, USA   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Census	23 Apr 1930	Union township, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA   [4]
  	1. Koonce, Robert W., head, renting, farm, male, white, 31, married, first married age 21, can read and write, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, farmer, farm, not a veteran, farm schedule 107 2. _____, Emma E., wife, female, white, 26, married, first married age 18, Arkansas, Arkansas, Arkansas] 3. _____, Noble L., daughter, female, white, 5, not attending school, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas
  Census	8 Apr 1940	Osage township, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA   [5]
  	1. Koonce, R. W., enting, $4, farm, head, male, white, 41, married, completed grade 7, Missouri, same house, farmer, farming, farm schedule no. 3 2. _____, Evelyn, wife, female, white, 38, married, completed grade 8, Arkansas, same house 3. _____, Melba Lee, daughter, female, white, 16, single, attending school, completed 1 year high school, Oklahoma 4. _____, Mary Ann, daughter, female, white, 6, not attending school, Oklahoma
  Residence	Nov 1956	Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA   [6]
  Died	20 Jun 1989	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I854	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert Houston Koonce,   b. 18 Nov 1867, Norris City, White, Illinois, USA ,   d. 1928, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Coantha Lenora "Nora" Walker,   b. 25 Jan 1868, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 24 Nov 1957, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 89 years)
  Married	15 Aug 1891	Howell County, Missouri, USA   [7, 8]
  Family ID	F1180	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eveleen E. Jones,   b. 3 Aug 1903, Pocahontas, Randolph County, Arkansas ,   d. 6 Nov 2001, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma  (Age 98 years)
  Married	20 Oct 1920  [9]
  Children	+ 1. Melba Lee Koonce   2. Mary Ann Koonce
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2020
  Family ID	F1349	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] Missouri, Howell - census 1900, (1900 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule), Chapel township, Howell County, Missouri, ED 52, Sheet 20, Dwelling 394, Household 396, Robert Koonce household, jpeg image (Reliability: 3). [S339] Bonnie Compton (1014 E. 7th St, Pittsburg, KS 66762, email tcompton2@cox.net), telephone interview, spring 2007, by Janis Walker Gilmore; regarding her ancestor, Helton Alanson Walker, his siblings, and his descendants, including daughter Myrtle Annis Walker (Bonnie's mother). [S457] SSDI - Ancestry.com, (Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Index," database, «i»Ancestry.com«/i» (http://www.ancestry.com/)), for Robert W. Koonce, no. 442-22-8850 (Reliability: 3), 8 Jul 2007. Name: Robert W. Koonce SSN: 442-22-8850 Last Residence: 73149 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States of America Born: 14 Mar 1899 Died: 20 Jun 1989 State (Year) SSN issued: Oklahoma (Before 1951 ) [S6136] 1930 U.S. census, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Union township, enumeration district (ED) 47, sheet 6B, p. 258 (stamped, verso), dwelling [no dwelling no. stated], family 121, Robert W. Koonce household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed October 17 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, [roll not stated].]. [S6137] 1940 U.S. census, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Osage township, enumeration district (ED) 41-26, sheet 1A (penned), p. 716 (stamped, recto), visited no. 3, rR. W. Koonce household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 October 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 3306. [S6119] "Services Held Tues. for Coantha LaNora Koonce" The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Oklahoma), 27 November 1957, p. 1, col. 4; digital image Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 3 October 2020). [S38] Missouri, Howell - Marriage Book 3 & 4, 1889 - 1893 (book, Gen Soc'y), (West Plains, Missouri : South Central Missouri Genealogical Society, 1992), Book 4, Page 7 (Reliability: 3). Robert H. Koonce to Cautha [sic] L. Walker, on 15 August 1891, by Samuel T. Proffitt, Minister. [S2832] “Missouri Marriage Records, 1805–2002,” digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 Oct 2012), Howell County, marriage license no. 1648 [loose papers, jacket only, no return], for Robert H. Koonce-Coantha L. Walker (1891); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. . [S363] Koonce - obit of Eveleen Koonce (wife of Robert W. Koonce), The Shawnee News-Star,, (Shawnee, Oklahoma: 8 November 2001.). Her obituary gives the marriage date, but does not give the place. One must assume that it was likely to have been in Lincoln County, Oklahoma.