Edwin Quayle Cannon Jr

6 May 1918–6 April 2005 (Age 86)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Edwin Quayle

When Edwin Quayle Cannon Jr was born on 6 May 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Edwin Quayle Cannon, was 31 and his mother, Edith Luella Wareing, was 29. He married Janath Russell on 13 August 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Salt Lake City Ward 4, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 6 April 2005, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edwin Quayle Cannon Jr
1918–2005
Janath Russell
1918–2007
Marriage: 13 August 1941

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    13 August 1941Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

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    World Events (8)

    1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
    Age 1
    The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
    1926 · No More Street Cars
    Age 8
    On September 20, Utah Light & Traction Company discontinued its street car services for Davis County. It operated for 12 years and helped many people get from city to city without any problems. During the next month all streetcars were converted into a bus system to help people that couldn't afford their own vehicles.
    1941
    Age 23
    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Canon
    Cannan
    McCann
    Canning
    Channon

    Story Highlight

    Church article Africa mission

    “ Indeed, Obinna taught the gospel to his family and had amassed a congregation of 71 members by the time the Mabeys and Cannons arrived five months after President Spencer W. Kimball announced the re …

    Sources (28)

    • Edwin Q Cannon, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
    • Edwin Quayle Cannon, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
    • Edwin Q Cannon, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"

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