Jim: If you have a membership in Ancestry.com, the Coon in Iowa reads like this: (and I am only quoting a little) 1930 US Census/984; 1920 US Census/826; 1900 US Census/655; 1880 US Census/464; 1870 US Census/321; Iowa State Census, 1895/388, suffice it to say there are 18,243 matches in all their databases of people with the name of Coon living in Iowa. Dorothy