In a message dated 7/22/2002 8:32:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Jrcinsd2(a)aol.com writes:
I have been scanning World Connect.Rootsweb and found a John Cannon along
with other Cannons show up in the 1821 Lincoln Co. MO taxlist. Does anyone
know anything abt this John Cannon...where he came from....relationship to
the other Cannons....and a WILL????
thanks, Janice (Cannon) still hunting!!!
Here's a bio on his son, Ephriam, which reveals quite a bit about John and
his wife, Jane.
Michele Brooks
Biography of Ephraim Cannon (1821- )
History of Lincoln County, Missouri (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co.,
1888), p. 515.Ephraim CANNON is the fourth of ten children born to John and
Jane (KNOX) CANNON, who were married in the "Blue Grass State" and became
residents of Missouri, in 1818. They improved a good farm in Lincoln County,
and there the father died in 1871. The mother's parents came from Ireland,
and she was born three weeks after they landed on American soil. Her father,
James KNOX, came to Missouri at a very early day, and lived many years in
Lincoln County. James CANNON, father of John, was probably born in South
Carolina. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and came to Lincoln
County about 1818, and died when our subject was a young man. Ephraim CANNON
was born near Troy, Mo, in 1821, and received a meager education in the old
subscription schools of his boyhood days. September 30, 1845, he wedded Nancy
A., a daughter of William and Lydia ELSBERRY, whose sketch appears elsewhere
in this work. Their union has been blessed by the birth of ten children, all
of whom are living: Sarah (wife of E. A. COBB), George W., Elizabeth (wife of
Israel R. HINDS), Lydia (wife of J. H. LARUE), Susan (wife of Howard M.
MOXLEY), John, Mary (wife of Henry NICHOLS), Rebecca (wife of Samuel ELSTON),
William F. and Benjamin E. Since his marriage Mr. CANNON has lived on the
farm adjoining his old home, and owns both places, 640 acres in all. He was
in the State Militia a short time during the war. He was formerly a Whig in
his political views but now votes the Democratic ticket. His wife died
January 9, 1877. She was a consistent and worthy member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.