Brief Life History of Nora Morris
When Nora Morris Cannon was born on 27 January 1897, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, George Mousley Cannon Sr., was 35 and her mother, Marian Adelaide Morris, was 35. She married Joseph Smith Nelson on 17 August 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 15 May 1964, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Nora Nelson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Nora Morris Cannon, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Nora Morris Cannon Nelson, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1898
1795 -1898 Hawaiian Kingdom, or Kingdom of Hawaiʻi 1898 – 1959 Territory of Hawaiʻi. 1959 – Present: Hawaii the State.
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 Mother Nora by her daughter Judith
Memories of Mother - January 27, 2017 by Judith Cannon Nelson Jardine I love the painting of you (*in the gallery as the painting by her husband) that your sweetheart, Joseph Smith Nelson painted of …
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