Coon Cemetery was established in 1854 when the two-year old child, James Henry Coon, son of Stanley Watson and Elizabeth Caroline (Wilkerson) Coon, died. A burial plot was given by Jacob B. Coon, grandfather of Stanley Coon, and this child was the first grave in the cemetery. A landmark in the cemetery was a cedar tree on the grave of little James Henry Coon. The tree was one of two seedling trees carried back from the Civil War in a knapsack by two half brothers of Stanley Coon. It was with love and caring that Peter and Scott Clemens carried these tiny trees, but one of the trees died long ago and the second one died in the late 1950s and had to be cut. A portion of its stump still sits on the child's grave.