I am looking for any information on my McCann family in Clark County,
Indiana. Michael V. McCann married Mary S. Cowan. Mary is a sister to my
Jane Cowan (Kirkby) whom I directly descend from.
Sincerely,
Renee Werth
Descendants of Michael V. McCann
1 Michael V. McCann b: November 21, 1819 Baltimore, Maryland d: May 03, 1897
Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana
. +Mary S. Cowan b: October 1823 Ohio m: 1843 Cincinnati, Hamilton County,
Ohio d: Aft. 1900
... 2 Charles A. McCann b: Abt. November 1844 Ohio d: November 28, 1926
Burial: East Lawn Cemetery, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
....... +Virginia LNU b: Abt. 1853 Indiana
......... 3 Warren R. McCann b: Abt. July 1873 Indiana d: July 08, 1947
Burial: East Lawn Cemetery, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
............. +Adelia L. LNU b: Abt. January 1870 Kentucky m: Abt. 1895
......... *2nd Wife of Warren R. McCann:
............. +Elizabeth Evelyn LNU b: Abt. 1883 England m: Abt. 1920
......... 3 Blanche M. McCann b: February 1878 Indiana
... *2nd Wife of Charles A. McCann:
....... +Katherine LNU b: July 1863 Indiana m: Abt. 1891 d: February 20,
1942 Burial: East Lawn Cemetery, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
......... 3 Ruth V. McCann b: October 31, 1891 Springfield, Greene County,
Missouri d: April 12, 1986 Corunna, Shiawassee County, Michigan Burial:
April 19, 1986 East Lawn Cemetery, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
............. +Ralph Beckner Gibson b: January 24, 1892 Greene County,
Missouri m: April 17, 1919 St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri d: March 21
1982 Great Falls, Cascade County, MT Burial: March 28, 1982 East Lawn
Cemetery, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
......... 3 Paul B. McCann b: April 1893 Missouri d: December 28, 1925
Burial: East Lawn Cemetery, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
............. +Grace LNU (possibly Cannady) b: Abt. 1894 Missouri
... 2 Henry M. McCann b: Abt. July 1848 Ohio d: 1938 Burial: Memory Park
Cemetery/Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
....... +Edith Evelyn Weber b: June 26, 1871 Kentucky m: September 20, 1887
Bloomfield, Lake County, Florida d: 1965 Burial: Memory Park
Cemetery/Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
......... 3 Malcolm Vincent McCann b: January 04, 1904 Texarkana, Missouri
d: April 18, 1989 Deland, Volusia County, Florida Burial: Deland Memorial
Gardens/Deland, Volusia County, Florida
............. +Esther Unknown
......... *2nd Wife of Malcolm Vincent McCann:
............. +[1] Eva Myers b: February 26, 1908 d: March 1999 Deland,
Volusia County, Florida Burial: Deland Memorial Gardens/Deland, Volusia
County, Florida
......... 3 Grace McCann b: April 10, 1907 Indianapolis, Marion County,
Indiana d: October 17, 2001 Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana Burial:
October 20, 2001 Memory Park Cemetery/Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
............. +Frank Earl Brown b: March 10, 1901 m: December 10, 1923
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana d: December 1971
......... 3 Charles Philip McCann b: February 08, 1910 Missouri d: May 18,
1996 Deland, Volusia County, Florida Burial: Deland Memorial Gardens/Deland,
Volusia County, Florida
............. +[1] Eva Myers b: February 26, 1908 d: March 1999 Deland,
Volusia County, Florida Burial: Deland Memorial Gardens/Deland, Volusia
County, Florida
......... *2nd Wife of Charles Philip McCann:
............. +Barbara Weber b: October 27, 1953
... 2 Amelia McCann b: Abt. July 1851 Indiana
... 2 Mary (Mollie) E. McCann b: January 23, 1857 Kentucky d: January 30,
1934 Burial: Walnut Ridge Cemetery/Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana
....... +Frank B. Burke b: December 26, 1856 Indiana m: February 13, 1884
Clark County, Indiana d: April 04, 1903 Burial: Walnut Ridge
Cemetery/Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana
......... 3 Allan M. Burke b: May 1885
......... 3 Edmund Burke b: 1889
......... 3 Jean Burke b: August 1891
... 2 Florence Eugenia McCann b: Abt. October 1857 Indiana
... 2 Emma McCann b: Abt. May 1859 Indiana
... 2 Grace McCann b: Abt. 1865
I found the following article on Michael and his family on the Ohio
Footsteps Archives.
OH-FOOTSTEPS-L Archives
From: MRS GINA M REASONER<AUPQ38A(a)prodigy.com >
Subject: MICHAEL V. McCANN - HAMILTON COUNTY
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:26:46, -0500
BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR
For the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings,
Scott and Washington, Indiana.
John M. Gresham & Co.
Chicago Printing Co., 1889 - Part II, page 24 & 27 with sketch.
MICHAEL V. McCANN is a native of Baltimore, Md., being born in that
city November 21, 1819. His father, Henry McCann, died when he was a small
boy; his mother, Mary (Cunningham) McCann, died at the advanced age of 73
years.
Mr. McCann left Baltimore at the age of 12 years, and went to
Boston, Mass., where he attended the common schools of that city and
obtained a good common-school education. In 1840 he determined to seek his
fortune in the great western country and came to Cincinnati, Ohio, by
stage, and was nine or ten days in making the trip. What a revolution in
travel since 1840 has been wrought! That same trip can now be made in less
than thirty hours. After arriving at Cincinnati, and looking round, he
located and entered into the furniture business, which he followed until
1849, when he removed to Franklin county, Ind., and located on a farm near
Brookville. He now became a granger and reveled in the beauties and
pleasures of farm life for three years, when a change again came over the
spirit of his dream, and he pulled up and removed to Louisville, Ky., where
he remained for one year.
From Louisville he went to Jonesville, a village and station on the
J.M., & I.R.R., in Bartholomew county, and there engaged in the mercantile
business. In 1855 he removed from Jonesville to Henryville, a station on
the J.M. & I.R.R. in Clark county, Ind., about twenty-one miles from
Jeffersonville, and there engaged the same as in Jonesville, in the
mercantile business. While in business at Henryville, he was in 1866
nominated and elected Auditor of Clark county, by the Democratic party, and
in 1870, he was again elected to succeed himself. This caused him to remove
to Charlestown, the then county-seat of Clark county. It is not necessary
to say anything about the manner in which he performed the duties of his
office, as his re-election is a sufficient answer to that question.
He was succeeded in the Auditor's office by his son, Charles A.
McCann, who had been one of his efficient deputies during his incumbency of
the office. At the end of his four years' service, Charles A. McCann
retired, refusing to again stand for re-election. It was during his son's
term as Auditor that the great wrangle over the removal of the county seat
from Charlestown to Jeffersonville took place.
In this contest much feeling and bitterness between sections and
individuals were engendered, and all other questions were made subordinate
to that. When he saw what the result must be, that it would certainly be
removed to Jeffersonville, he sold out all his interests in Charlestown,and
located in the city of Jeffersonville and engaged in the coal business, and
has continued in it ever since.
He was married to Miss Mary Cowin, of Cincinnati, in 1843, who is
still living. They have been blessed with seven children, five girls and
two boys, to wit: Charles A., Henry, Amelia F., Mollie E., Florence E.,
Emma and Grace L. Charles A. McCann is the wholesale grocery business in
Springfield, Mo.; Henry McCann is in Orange co., Fla., where he owns an
orange grove. Mollie E. is the wife of the Hon. Frank B. Burke, a lawyer by
profession, and is now joint senator, representing the State Senate in the
counties of Clark, Scott and Jennings. The rest of the girls are all at
home with their parents.
It will add but little force to what has already been said, to say
which is manifest that Mr. McCann is one of our most substantial and
trusted citizens, and stands high as a business man and merchant. He is a
Democrat among Democrats, ever ready to do all that he can to promote the
cause of the Democracy and the success of his party.