Obit from the Keowee Courier, August 13, 1913. (South Carolina)
DEATH OF MRS. J. W. CANNON.
Good Woman Called to Her Reward
The sad news of the death of Mrs. J. W. Cannon was circulated over this
community last Monday. She was taken sick early Sunday morning, and
about 11 o'clock Sunday night she breathed her last. Her maiden name was
Miss Sarah Bryce, and she was born March 22, 1843, being 70 years old
last March. She was happily married to J. W. Cannon in 1861, and to this
union nine or ten children were born. J. W., J. S. and W. M. Cannon,
Mrs. F. M. Whitmire, Mrs. D. E. Crenshaw and Miss Nancy Cannon, of
Salem; A. Cannon, of Pickens; W. R. Cannon, of Texas, and Mrs. W. M.
Kelley, of Walhalla, are children of the deceased. Shortly before the
end Mrs. Cannon called her people around her and told them her time had
come and that she was going to a better world than this and for them to
prepare to meet her there. She talked freely during her sickness about
her spiritual condition and was at peace with God. She was conscious to
the end and told her people when it was coming. For many years she bad
been a consistent member of the Methodist church, and in her death
another good woman has been called to her reward. A loving mother,
devoted wife and good neighbor has gone. Let us not weep, but rejoice in
the knowledge that our loss is her eternal gain. After appropriate
funeral services, conducted by Rev. C. R. Abercrombie at 4 p.m., August
11th, the remains were lowered to their last resting place in the
cemetery at the new Methodist church in Salem, in the presence of a
large congregation of sorrowing friends. The bereaved family have the
deepest sympathy of many friends in their time of sorrow.