When Mary Elizabeth Cannon was born on 11 October 1840, in Perry Township, Martin, Indiana, United States, her father, Joseph 'Joe' Nichols Cannon, was 42 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth 'Polly' Clements, was 28. She married John Elsey on 16 December 1858, in Perry Township, Martin, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Bogard Township, Daviess, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died on 3 March 1907, in Rutherford Township, Martin, Indiana, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Shoals, Halbert Township, Martin, Indiana, United States.
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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 .
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