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The Cones' parents were Herman (Kahn) Cone and Helen (Guggenheimer) Cone, who were [[German Jewish|German-Jewish]] immigrants. Herman, who had immigrated from Altenstadt in [[Bavaria]] (South of Ulm), [[anglicization|anglicized]] his last name<ref name="Hoyt Entrepreneur">{{Cite web |author= Lucius Wedge |url=http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=227 |title=Moses Herman Cone|access-date=April 15, 2021|quote= In ''Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present'', vol. 3, edited by Giles R. Hoyt. German Historical Institute. Last modified February 24, 2015. }}</ref> (changing it from "Kahn" to "Cone") almost immediately upon arrival in the United States in 1845. Until 1871, the family lived in [[Jonesboro, Tennessee]], where they had a successful [[Grocery store|grocery]] business. Claribel and Etta were born in Tennessee. Claribel, the fifth child in the family of thirteen children,<ref name="Etta"/> was born November 14, 1864. Etta, the ninth child in the family, was born November 30, 1870.{{sfn|Richardson|1985|page=47}} The Cone family had a history of slave ownership. Their father Herman and his brother-in-law Jacob Alder purchased three enslaved people in 1863.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://omeka-dev.library.appstate.edu/exhibits/show/dorm-histories-and-legacies/eastcampus/conehall |title=Cone Hall |publisher=[[Appalachian State University]] |accessdate=2024-04-23}}</ref>