Frederick Hartwell Koon was born August 3 in either 1821 or 1829. The date on his tombstone states that he was born in 1821. He stated on his application for a Confederate Soldier’s Pension that he was born in 1829. He was born in Newberry County, South Carolina, the son of Eve Margaret Feagle and Martin Koon.
Family tradition has it that Frederick Hartwell Koon married Sarah Knight, born 1819 in South Carolina. They probably married about 1844 in South Carolina as their first child was born about 1845. The children of Sarah and Frederick Hartwell Koon, all born in South Carolina, were as follows:


