George Weldon Cannon

Brief Life History of George Weldon

When George Weldon Cannon was born on 27 January 1939, in Carter, Kentucky, United States, his father, George Andrew Cannon Jr, was 36 and his mother, Mary LouVena 'Vena' Lyons, was 31. He died on 31 March 2009, in Madill, Marshall, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Johnston, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Andrew Cannon Jr
1902–1971
Mary LouVena 'Vena' Lyons
1907–1983
Dorothy Virginia Cannon
1925–1925
Jimmie Andrew Cannon
1926–1999
Betty Lou Cannon
1931–2018
George Weldon Cannon
1939–2009

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  • George Weldon Cannon, "Oklahoma, School Records, 1895-1936"

World Events (8)

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

1941 · Comanche Code Talkers

Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken. 

1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space

Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.

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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