Below, I am pasting some biographies about some Cannons who lived in
Tennesse. They are not my line, but I thought I should post them, in
case they belong to someone on this list.
Heidi (my Cannons: Galway, Ireland to Ascension Parish, LA 1840's)
[Source: The Goodspeed Histories of MAURY, WILLIAMSON, RUTHERFORD,
WILSON, BEDFORD, & MARSHALL COUNTIES OF TENNESSEE
Reprinted from GOODSPEED'S HISTORY OF TENNESSEE, originally published
in 1886, published by WOODWARD & STINSON PRINTING CO., Columbia, TN
1971
Second printing 1977.]
p. 971--Biographical appendix-- Williamson Co., TN--
Newton Cannon, dealer in hardware and groceries, was born near Franklin
June 14, 1846, son of William P. and Susan A. (Perkins) Cannon, and of
French and English descent. The family is traced back to three brothers
who came to America. One settled in Maryland, one in South Carolina,
and the other in North Carolina. Our subject is traceable to the North
Carolina branch of the family. The paternal grandfather of our subject
was Newton Cannon, who was born in North Carolina and came to Williamson
County in early life. He was a saddler by trade, a colonel in the
Seminole war, under Jackson, and was twice governor of Tennessee and a
member of Congress. He was one of the early prominent men of this
State, a leader of the Whig party, and died at Nashville in 1842. The
father of our subject was born in this county in 1816, and was a farmer
by occupation, and was wounded in the Florida war. He now lives in
southern Kentucky. The mother was born in this county in 1821 and died
in 1849. Our subject was reared on the farm, attended Franklin schools,
and in 1862, enlisted in Company I, Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry,
Confederate States Army and was paroled in May, 1865, at Gainesville,
Ala. At the close of the war he returned home, and in 1873 was
appointed deputy county court clerk, which position he occupied for one
year. For thirteen years he has been engaged n merchandising, five
years of which time were spent in the wholesale hardware business in
Nashville. He is now engaged in retail merchandising in Franklin, but
in connection with this carries on farming on 250 acres of valuable land
near Franklin. February, 1873, he wedded Miss Jennie B. McEwen,
daughter of John B. McEwen, and by this union became the father of five
children: John B., Leah A., Cynthia G., Newton and Samuel P. Mr.
Cannon is a Democrat, and his wife is a member of the Presbyterian
Church.
p. 1027--Biographical Appendix--Rutherford County, TN
Joseph L. Cannon, attorney at law, was born in Rutherford County, Tenn.,
April 29, 1835, son of Alanson and Elizabeth (Sharp) Cannon, natives of
Rutherford and Sumner Counties, Tenn. The father, who was an active and
successful farmer, is now living a retired life with our subject, who
received a good literary education and graduated from the literary
department of the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn., in 1858. In
1859-60, he took a course in law at the same institution and then
located at Shelbyville where he opened a law office. Owing to the war
he was compelled to abandon this, and in 1862 enlisted in Company C,
Eighteenth Regiment Tennessee Infantry, and served until the close. He
began practicing law in Murfreesboro in 1835, and has met with good
success. During 1872-1873, he was a partner with J.W. Burton. October
9, 1869, h married Margaret, daughter of Richard Beard, D.D., and to
them were born eight children, seven now living: Alanson B., Elizabeth
E., Annie W., Minnie, Nellie L., Franklin B. and Sarah L. Mr. Cannon
has always been a Democrat and has been temporary judge of the court,
also chancellor by appointment numerous times. He and wife are members
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
p. 1133--Biographical Appendix--Bedford County
Charles L. Cannon was born February 14, 1813, in Shelbyville, Bedford
Co., Tenn., and is now the oldest living person born in that town. His
father, Clement Cannon, was a native of North Carolina, born in the
latter part of the last century. He was of English descent and
immigrated to Tennessee with his parents, locating in Williamson County,
where he was reared and became a surveyor of lands. He afterward
purchased a large tract of land in Bedford County, and in 1806 he
donated 100 acres of this to the county where Shelbyville now stands for
a county seat. He married Miss Susan B. Lock, a native of Virginia and
a resident of Rutherford County. To this union were born six children.
The father was a soldier in the war of 1812 and died January 19, 1860.
Our subject was educated at Shelbyville and upon reaching his majority
began the business of farming, which he has always followed. December,
1842, Miss Mary A. Hooser, a native of this county and a daughter of
William and Rebecca (Coots) Hooser, became his wife. To this union the
following children were born: Susan R. (deceased), Maria L. (deceased),
William H., Thomas C. (deceased), Lettie C. (now Mrs. Phillip Wilhoite),
John H. (deceased), Mary Re. (now Mrs. William H. Tilferd), Charles L.
(deceased), Macon B. and Charles B. Our subject owns a farm of 550
acres about five miles east of Shelbyville, where he now resides. He is
a Democrat in politics and he and family are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. Mr. Cannon is a nephew of Gov. Cannon and also
a nephew of Gen. Robert Cannon.
p. 1133, continued
John T. Cannon, the genial clerk of the Circuit Court of Bedford County,
is a grandson of Clement Cannon, Sr., one of five brothers, who came
from North Carolina to Williamson County, Tenn., in the first decade of
this century. Clement Cannon, Sr., had five sons, the father of our
subject, Henry Cannon, being one of them. Henry Cannon was born in
1812. He lived in this county till 1852, when he moved to Shelby
County, Tenn., where he died in 1873, having been a farmer all his
life. Of those five brothers who came to Williamson County, four soon
afterward came to Bedford County. Their father's name was Minos Cannon
and their mother was a Thompson, of Scotch-Irish descent. The mother of
John T. was Sallie C. M. Tillman, a descendant of the Martin family, so
numerously represented in the county, and a descendant of the Clay
family of Kentucky. She died when John T. was but two weeks old, and he
was then reared with Col. Lewis Tillman and other relatives. At
fourteen he began his own support and attended school on money earned by
himself. He clerked in a store three years and then taught school about
four years, having married at twenty-two. He then settled down to
farming. In 1861 he enlisted in Company K. Twenty-third Tennessee, as
first lieutenant, and served eighteen months. He has been farming very
successfully since the war, and now owns nearly 400 acres of good land.
He was elected to his office in 1878 and has efficiently served to the
satisfaction of his constituents. His birth was December 7, 1835. He
was married in 1857 to Narcissa Sutton, a native of Bedford County. Mr.
Cannon has a family of four children, viz: Sallie C. M. (the wife of
C.J. Moody), Walter S., Lizzie H. and Narcissa W. All the family are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is a Royal Arch
Mason. His ancestors were old-line Whigs and he is a Democrat.
--
Life is too short to be small.
--Benjamin Disraeli