Brief Life History of Allen
When Allen Cannon was born on 2 February 1842, in Perry Township, Martin, Indiana, United States, his father, William S. Nichols Cannon, was 44 and his mother, Margaret Ann Smith, was 42. He married Mary Elizabeth Cannon on 4 September 1863, in Martin, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Bogard Township, Daviess, Indiana, United States in 1900. He died on 16 March 1915, in Rutherford Township, Martin, Indiana, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Truelove Cemetery, Loogootee, Perry Township, Martin, Indiana, United States.
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- Allen Cannon in household of Wm Cannon, "United States Census, 1860"
- Allen Cannon, "Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959"
- Cannon, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1853
Historical Boundaries: 1853: Martin, Indiana, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Ó Canann or Ó Canáin ‘descendant of Cano or Canán’. Occasionally, and in the Isle of Man, the surname derives from Mac Canann ‘son of Cano or Canán’, which in Ireland was Anglicized McCann or McConnon . See also Connon . The personal name is from Gaelic cano ‘wolf cub’, of which Canán is a diminutive. In Ulster Cannon may also be shortened from Ó Canannáin ‘descendant of Canannán’, a pet form (double diminutive) of the personal name. This was a cheiftan family in Donegal, and the name was particularly common there.
English: from Middle English canun ‘canon’ (Old Norman French canonie, canoine, from Late Latin canonicus). In medieval England this term denoted a clergyman living with others in a clergy house; the surname is mostly an occupational name for a servant in a house of canons, although it could also be a nickname or even a patronymic.
French: variant of Canon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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