When John Kanaoy Lynn was born on 4 August 1858, in Massac, Illinois, United States, his father, Pitts Lynn, was 36 and his mother, Mary Polly S Miles, was 37. He married Mahala Elizabeth Anderson on 1 April 1885, in Massac, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870. He died on 2 April 1911, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Ballard, Kentucky, United States.
Do you know John Kanaoy? Do you have a story about him that you would like to share? Sign In or Create a FREE Account
+3 More Children
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and Ó Fhloinn (see Flynn ).
Scottish: variant of Lyne 3.
English: habitational name from any of several places so called in Norfolk, in particular King's Lynn, an important center of the medieval wool trade. The placename is probably from an Old Welsh word cognate with Gaelic linn ‘pool, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesAs a nonprofit, we offer free help to those looking to learn the details of their family story.