 BITUARIESLenawee County, Michigan |
Joseph Cannon Dead Joseph Cannon, one of the old settlers of Lyon county died this morning of pneumonia at the old Cannon homestead, five miles north east of town. Joseph Cannon was born sixty-six years ago in England and came to this country with his parents when a baby and was brought up in Michigan. He came to Lyon county thirty-two years ago and has lived on the farm north east of town ever since. All the family who were living at the home, Mr. and Mrs. Cannon and their youngest son, Jesse were taken with pneumonia about a week ago. The young man died Tuesday and was buried yesterday. It was thought that Mr. Cannon was improving but grew rapidly worse since yesterday. Mr. Cannon leaves a wife, four daughters, Mrs. L.L. Higbee, who lives here, Mrs. E.J. DeLong, who lives one mile north of the home place, Mrs. A.C. Wells and Mrs. W.J. Lawson, who live in Kansas City, and one son, J.R. Cannon who works at Haynes Bros. The funeral will be held at the home Sunday at 10 o'clock and will be conducted by Rev. Parker. The body will be taken to Maplewood for burial. The Emporia (KS) Gazette (Died 1902)  Mrs. Clara Cannon Dead Mrs. Clara Cannon, 91, died this morning at 5:30 o'clock at the home of her son, J.R. Cannon, 1712 West Sixth. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Sutton funeral home. Rev. J.H.J. Rice will conduct the services. Internment will be in Maplewood cemetery. Mrs. Clara Cannon, whose maiden name was Clara McWilliams, was born December 29, 1840 at Deerfield, Mich. She was married to Joseph Cannon in 1857 at Deerfield. Mr. Cannon fought in the Union army during the civil war. During the three years when Mr. Cannon was in the army, Mrs. Cannon and her two children lived alone in a log cabin in the Michigan woods. Mr. Cannon sent her what money he could spare from his $13 a month and Mrs. Cannon made the remainder of the living for herself and the children. She hired a man to plow a few acres near the house and she put on Mr. Cannon's clothes and planted and cultivated the crops herself. Mr. and Mrs. Cannon and their children came to Kansas in 1870. They lived on a farm, which they bought, on Plum Creek, 5 miles northeast of Emporia. Their nearest neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. George Plumb, who lived a mile away. The Cannons raised nothing on their farm the first year. The second year the entire family had the ague, alternately chilling and burning with fever. Through the long summer days they would lie on the floor for coolness. Mrs. Cannon was the only member of the family who was able to get drinking water for the others. She was sick, too, but she would drag herself to the well, which was some distance from the house, fill a 2-quart pail and then drag herself back to the house. The family had no horses the first two years and they farmed with oxen. Some years they got a crop and some years they got nothing for their summer's work. When they did get a crop, prices were so low the receipts were small. Mr. Cannon died in Emporia in 1902. Mrs. Cannon was a member of the First Methodist church and the Ladies of the G.A.R. She is survived by five children, Mrs. A.C. Wells, of Kansas City, Kan.; Mrs. E.J. DeLong, of Emporia; Mrs. G.A. Lawson, of San Francisco, Calif.; J.R. Cannon, of Emporia, and Mrs. L.L. Higbee, of Wellington, Texas; 23 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. (Died April, 1931)
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