I don't want to get too excited BUT my ancestor, Mary "Polly" CANNON is a
sister to John P. CANNON which you mention having a DNA match!!!!!!
Have you corresponded with Maxine Cunningham or Barbara Schnitzer who both
descend from John P.CANNON???
My ancestor, Polly, married John CHAMPION. John died in 1811 in Mercer
County, Kentucky and Polly migrated with her family to Crawford County,
Indiana and eventually to Knox County, Illinois where she died 12 Jan 1847.
Richard Swank, are you reading this? This is OUR line......
Jan Lund
Jan4Gen(a)verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary & Ann Blakely" <blakely52(a)ev1.net>
To: <CANNON-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:48 PM
Subject: ROLL CALL - James CANNON & Mary CAPEHART
My oldest known CANNON ancestor is James CANNON who was born about
1784 in
South Carolina based on the 1850 Pickens County, South Carolina census. He
died July 10, 1855 and is buried in the MORGAN Family Cemetery in Pickens
County, SC. He married Mary CAPEHART who was born about 1780 in SC and
died
November 9, 1857. In 1835 James and Mary are listed as being members
of
New
Hope Baptist Church, this is the earliest I can place them in a
location,
just too many James CANNON's for older records with no way to be sure
which
one he is!
Their son John R. M. CANNON, born February 11, 1811 and died March 20,
1888
is my ancestor. We do not know what the R. M. stands for but it does
make
him stand apart from other John CANNON's!
My CANNON family is at:
http://users2.ev1.net/~blakely52/cannon/index.htm
My CANNON line is represented by # 9399 in the CANNON DNA project. He has
two matches, one from the John CANNON born 1712 and died 1763 in Newberry
County, South Carolina line (there is a story in our family that we came
from Newberry but no one has found the connection so far) and one from the
John P. CANNON born February 27, 1778 in Ireland and died April 2, 1833 in
Parke County, Indiana line.
Trinity College in Dublin has recently completed an Irish Y-chromosome DNA
study and CANNON's were one of the surnames associated with what may be
descendants of the "Niall of Nine Hostages" due to a large percentage of
Northwestern Irish men having this one DNA haplotype. None of the CANNON
DNA
project participants are exact matches but 4 are close. See the site
below
for one of the technical papers on this study:
http://vetinari.sitesled.com/gael.pdf
Gary Blakely
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