Brief Life History of Alma Eliza
When Alma Eliza Cannon was born on 29 May 1896, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Tenney Cannon, was 25 and her mother, Emily Ada Croxall, was 25. She married Edwin Kent "Ed" Winder on 24 June 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 30 years and Election Precinct 5, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 16 June 1966, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Valley View Memorial Park, West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Alma Cannon Winder, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Alma Eliza Cannon - birth: 29 May 1896; Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Alma Eliza Cannon, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1898
1795 -1898 Hawaiian Kingdom, or Kingdom of Hawaiʻi 1898 – 1959 Territory of Hawaiʻi. 1959 – Present: Hawaii the State.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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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Tribute to Alma Cannon Winder, by Anne Greaves Snow
TRIBUTE TO ALMA CANNON WINDER By Anne Greaves Snow Monday, June 20, 1966 It was a joy to pay tribute to Sister Winder in life. In death, a shaking honor, the greatest ever entrusted to me. Alma Wi …
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