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Anyone interested in information on the Cannons in South Georgia . . . names of Charles and David being prevalent? We have done research on our ancesters and put together a book for our family members, but it's not the book everyone is talking about. I had no idea there were so many Cannons all over everywhere! Interesting. We hit a brick wall and could not document information before 1831, with David C. Cannon born in North Carolina. He married Mary Ann Catherine Sikes
, b. May 4, 1831in Franklin County, FL. They are buried in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery , Pavo, Georgia.
We have information (undocumented link to us) but possibly so, on Radford Cannon, b. abt. 1770 in N.C. Three children: Irvin,Charles, and Ira.
Lillian Cannon Weaver
I have NJ Cannon's also. Do any of these ring a bell???
Descendants of Jack Cannon
1 Jack Cannon
.. +Violet Dawsen
......... 2 Jackie Cannon
.................... 3 Jackie Cannon
.................... 3 Margaret Cannon
.................... 3 Jean Marie Cannon
Patti
Wilkin, Dawson, Dugan, Carfagna, Natola, Yankowski, Pryor, Pytlik, Turick
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>From: "Joan Martin" <jbmart51(a)earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Joan Martin <jbmart51(a)earthlink.net>, cannon(a)rootsweb.com
>To: <cannon(a)rootsweb.com>
>Subject: Re: [CANNON] CANNON pictures
>Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:03:51 -0400
>
>Sorry, I don't have a copy, my Cannons were from Ireland in the 1700's and
>wound up in Westchester County, NY State, and from there to New Jersey and
>here I sit with the same initials as you,
>Joan Cannon Martin
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Virginia Clay" <vcclay(a)neo.rr.com>
>To: <cannon(a)rootsweb.com>
>Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 9:54 AM
>Subject: Re: [CANNON] CANNON pictures
>
>
> >I am just curious. Did anyone contact you about how to get a copy of
>this
> > book. I am interested also.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Virginia Cannon Clay
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cannon-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:cannon-bounces@rootsweb.com]
>On
> > Behalf Of Jacqueline Munch
> > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:33 AM
> > To: CANNON(a)rootsweb.com
> > Subject: [CANNON] CANNON pictures
> >
> > I just want to clear up a statement I made in my first post which was
> > interpreted as my having pictures of the early Cannons in Newberry
>County.
> > I do not. I was referring to a picture of Clarence Cannon, US
>Congressman
> > from Missouri who wrote a book, "The Cannon Family". I have just an
> > excerpt
> > from his book showing his picture which amazed me with his resemblance
>to
> > my
> > grandfather. He traced his ancestry back to Samuel Cannon and Lydia
> > Pennington of Newberry County, SC. It's not much to go on but gives me
> > some
> > hope that there might be a connection. If anyone knows where to access
>a
> > copy of Clarence Cannon's book, please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jacqueline Cannon Munch
> >
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Please please please.................that would be GREAT to have a copy of
the Cannon Book...........!!!
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Gary, my CANNON line removed from Caldwell Co., KY in 1865 to Shelby Co.,
MO. This was Finis Robert CANNON....he then removed in 1873 to Phillips Co.,
KS. There were many inter-related families, of Scots-Irish origin who
followed this same migration pattern. One of the other surnames is DRENNAN, that
ended up in KS.
So, this route from KY>MO was still being used by Cannons for several
decades. All attempts to connect my line to it's original SC lines have been
unproven. The line came from SC sometime between 1800-1810 to KY....as per census
records of 1850.
Boy, is it confusing!!
Janice (Cannon)
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Jacqueline, I am also interested in "The Cannon Book." My line goes back to Joseph Cannon and Nancy Sitton of North Carolina, but my grand uncle, Jesse Adams Cannon also wrote a handwritten book, in the seventies, titled "The Cannon Book" that lifted the original Clarence Cannon introduction. Also, Clarence Cannon lived just north across the St. Charles County/Lincoln County line from the Joseph Cannon homestead, which was on Big Creek in St. Charles County. I have supposed there must be a connection between the two families, who arrived in Missouri within seven years of each other from Kentucky, where both had been as they migrated west. My Cannons arrived in St. Charles County in 1811, whereas, James Cannon and Rachel Stark arrived in Lincoln County in 1818.
My theory is that John Cannon and Martha Alexander, the grandparents of James Cannon, may have been the parents of my Joseph Cannon, who, my granduncle Jesse Adams Cannon says, was born in North Carolina in 1760. John Cannon and Martha Alexander also had a son named Joseph, born in 1766 (I have seen LDS data that says 1776, but I believe this is a transposition of 1767, as Martha couldn't have had yet another child that late, plus the fact that all of her other children were born in the 1760s, as far as I know). I have it that John and Martha both died in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and the best evidence I can find for Joseph is that he was born in either Mecklenberg or Rowan County, both of which were home to Cannons and Sittons in the 1760s. So this fits, even if the birthdate is off by six years. Another factor in this is that Jesse says that Nancy Sitton, who would later become Joseph's wife, was born in 1765. Maybe Joseph was born in 1766 instead of 1760. At any rate, I am still working on this and have yet to prove that these two Joseph Cannons are the same man.
Another interesting connection is Jesse Adams Cannon's plaigarism of Clarence Cannon's book, indicating that Jesse had a copy of Clarence's book or had access to it. I have a copy of Jesse's version, which he gave as a Christmas present in 1977 to his brother (my grandfather) Elmer Vandegrift Cannon and which I subsequently inherited when my grandmother died in 1999. I don't recall where I saw the Clarence Cannon original; it was either in PDF form or was online in HTML form, but I know I saw it, as that's how I know of its existence and that the introduction is the same as in Jesse Adams Cannon's handwritten account by the same title:
"These pioneers have already become dim figures of the past and unless perpetuated in some permanent record must soon be forgotten as are their immigrant forefathers who crossed the seas to build a home in the new world a generation before them.
The Names and deeds of our fathers when handed down by word of mouth from father to son are soon forgotten. Most of the vital facts or service to their country and their home community becomes mere tradition. Only by enrollment in a record or family book can they be preserved with any certainty or accuracy to the generations that will follow.
I feel I have an obligation and a duty to see that our forefathers will not be forgotten as I have great respect and admiration for their contribution to a notable chapter of American history in the settlement of the State of Missouri.
He who looks with pride upon this history which his forefathers has written, who accepts with gratitude the fine inheritance which they bequeath to us, and who resolves to preserve and pass on to his descendants unimpaired and enriched is a true American."
On the next page of Jesse's book are what look like his own words:
"I dedicate this book to our fathers and mothers, the present generation and their descendants that I had the pleasure of meeting at the third reunion of the Cannon family at Wentzville, Missouri on May 20, 1973.
The years I devoted to the search and assembly of the material of this book has been rewarding beyond words to express as I have only deep gratitude and pride for the cousins it tells about. I have become personally acquainted with a host of fine people that I would not otherwise had the opportunity to meet.
Friendships have been made that I hope last as long as life. One cannont find friends such as I have without being affected as it has added something to my life for which I shall be everlastingly grateful."
This is then signed, "Affectionately, Jesse A. Cannon." There is no attribution of the words on the preceding two pages to Clarence Cannon, but, as I said, I have read those words (somewhere; I wish I could find it now) from Clarence Cannon's original 1958 book.
So, were the Cannons of Lincoln County, Missouri related to the Cannons of neighboring St. Charles County? I have found at least one connection: Aaron Terrill Beck (1814-1880), husband of Margaret Cannon and son of Jeremiah Beck and Sarah E. Gibson or Gipson, who was my Joseph Cannon's step daughter. Nancy Sitton had been married to Joseph Gibson or Gipson who died and Nancy later remarried to Joseph Cannon. Aaron Terrill Beck lived on the Cuivre River, of which Big Creek (where Joseph Cannon settled) is a tributary. There was a school built in Troy, Missouri and named after Aaron Terrill Beck in the 1880s or 1890s. Troy is nearby to Cuivre River State Park and across the river to the south of Troy lies the community of Moscow Mills, where my great-great-grandfather George Moore Cannon's farm was located. Troy is on the Lincoln County side of the river, Moscow Mills on the St. Charles County side. Clarence Cannon was born at Elsberry, which is northeast of Troy. The whole area is full of Cannon connections and it's hard for me to believe that the two Cannon families on opposite sides of the Cuivre River, in close proximity to each other, were not somehow related, especially when the Becks are added into the equation, as the Becks settled in Lincoln County among Clarence Cannon's ancestors, who the Becks were undoubtedly related to by marriage and blood and, at the same time, the Becks are also related by marriage and blood to my Cannon line.
Gary Rea
This is in reply to those of you who are asking about the book on the Cannon family. In the 1970's I purchased two books on The Cannon Family from the author, Edward Pugh Cannon. His address at that time was 462 North Main Street, Poplar Bluff, Missouri 63901. I have had no further contact with him and do not know if these books are still available.
Jacqueline Cannon Munch
IF YOU WERE WRITING TO ME, jACQUELINE, NO, NO ONE HAS CONTACTED ME ABOUT THE
BOOK.
SORRY, JOAN CANNON MARTIN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Virginia Clay" <vcclay(a)neo.rr.com>
To: <cannon(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [CANNON] CANNON pictures
>I am just curious. Did anyone contact you about how to get a copy of this
> book. I am interested also.
> Thanks in advance.
> Virginia Cannon Clay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cannon-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:cannon-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
> Behalf Of Jacqueline Munch
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:33 AM
> To: CANNON(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: [CANNON] CANNON pictures
>
> I just want to clear up a statement I made in my first post which was
> interpreted as my having pictures of the early Cannons in Newberry County.
> I do not. I was referring to a picture of Clarence Cannon, US Congressman
> from Missouri who wrote a book, "The Cannon Family". I have just an
> excerpt
> from his book showing his picture which amazed me with his resemblance to
> my
> grandfather. He traced his ancestry back to Samuel Cannon and Lydia
> Pennington of Newberry County, SC. It's not much to go on but gives me
> some
> hope that there might be a connection. If anyone knows where to access a
> copy of Clarence Cannon's book, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Jacqueline Cannon Munch
>
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I am just curious. Did anyone contact you about how to get a copy of this
book. I am interested also.
Thanks in advance.
Virginia Cannon Clay
-----Original Message-----
From: cannon-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:cannon-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of Jacqueline Munch
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:33 AM
To: CANNON(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CANNON] CANNON pictures
I just want to clear up a statement I made in my first post which was
interpreted as my having pictures of the early Cannons in Newberry County.
I do not. I was referring to a picture of Clarence Cannon, US Congressman
from Missouri who wrote a book, "The Cannon Family". I have just an excerpt
from his book showing his picture which amazed me with his resemblance to my
grandfather. He traced his ancestry back to Samuel Cannon and Lydia
Pennington of Newberry County, SC. It's not much to go on but gives me some
hope that there might be a connection. If anyone knows where to access a
copy of Clarence Cannon's book, please let me know.
Thanks,
Jacqueline Cannon Munch
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Deanna and Karen,
Russell Cannon supposedly had a son, Ransom Cannon
Born: abt 1784
Pendleton, [county], South Carolina, USA
Died: 1850
Pickens, [county], South Carolina, USA
Do you have anything on him? My James, b.c1797, and Juretta Cannon of
Laurens Co., SC had a son, John Ransom Cannon, b. 1838. I haven't seen that
name anywhere until today on OneWorldTree as son of Russell, grandson of
Simcock. Also, Karen posted her line which includes a James Franklin. My
John Ransom Cannon had a brother who named a son Franklin James Cannon.
Interesting!
Joyce
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