Donald James Cannon

8 December 1919–5 March 1998 (Age 78)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Donald James

When Donald James Cannon was born on 8 December 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Sylvester Quayle Cannon, was 42 and his mother, Winnifred Irene Saville, was 39. He married Elaine Winifred Anderson on 25 March 1943, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States for about 15 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 5 March 1998, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Donald James Cannon
1919–1998
Elaine Winifred Anderson
1922–2003
Marriage: 25 March 1943
James Quayle Cannon
1944–1999
Carla Lani Cannon
1945–2011
Christine Cannon
1947–1991
Susan Elaine Cannon
1949–2022
Susan Elaine Cannon
1949–2022
Anthony Joseph Cannon
1955–1997

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    25 March 1943Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (6)

    +1 More Child

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (7)

    +2 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1920
    Age 1
    The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
    1923 · President Harding visits Utah to get to know the people.
    Age 4
    President Warren G. Harding's visited Utah as part of a broader tour of the western United States designed to bring him closer to the people and their conditions. After Speaking at Liberty Park, the president went to the Hotel Utah where he met with President Heber J. Grant and talked to him about the history of the church.
    1941
    Age 22
    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

    Sources (28)

    • D James Cannon, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
    • Donald James Cannon in household of Sylvester Quayle Cannon, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
    • Donald James Cannon, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"

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