This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOON Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5BC.2ACE/842.1.1 Message Board Post: John Moore Hoon info. From "History of WA County, OH" - page 323 Hoon, John, aged 23, volunteer. May 1861, three months, Eighteen regiment, company K, private, served three months, mustered out August 28, 1861 *************************************** From his obituary dated 6 Nov 1913, Walla Walla, WA Union-Bulletin - page 8 JOHN M. HOON IS DEAD AT HIS HOME FORMER FRUIT RAISER OF FREEWATER SUCCUMBS - CAME HERE IN 1889 John M. Hoon, aged 81 years, a resident of this valley since 1889, died about 6 o'clock yesterday evening at his residence, 704 Park Street, of Brights Disease. Mr. Hoon was born in Pennsylvania in April, 1832, and when he first came to this valley in 1889, he moved to the vicinity of Freewater, where he farmed and later raised fruits. He lived on his place there until about ten years ago, when he moved to this city and later lived close to town on the present Boyer avenue extension. He has lived in the city, retired, for the past seven years. Before coming west, Mr. Hoon was an expert moulder in big factories of Ohio for 27 years. He has been a member of the I.O.O.F. since a young man and was also a member of the Congregational church at Freewater. He leaves his wife and five children as follows: H.G. Hoon of this city; J.C. Hoon of Grandview; Mrs. Anna Evans and Mrs. W.F. Sheets of this city and Mrs. G.C. Williams of Starbuck. Funeral services will be announced later. ********************************* He is buried in Mt. View Cemetery - Walla Walla, WA I have 2 pictures of his gravemarker. The front has his name, Co. K, 18 Ohio. Top has birth date and death date. He was born 12 April 1832 in Mercer Co., PA. On 28 Sept 1862 he married Nancy Hughs Wells in Morgan Co., OH. He died 5 Nov 1913 in Walla Walla Co., WA. Kathi Hoon Yakima, WA