Husband: Horace W. CANNON
Birthdate: 03 September 1811
Birthplace: South Carolina
Death date: 16 February 1892
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Alley Cemetery, Rabun County, Georgia
Father: Henry CANNON
Mother: Hannah JONES BOWEN

Marriage date: Circa 1833
Marriage place: Georgia

Wife: Nancy HEFNER
Birthdate: 06 September 1813
Birthplace: South Carolina
Death date: 05 November 1896
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Alley Cemetery, Rabun County, Georgia
Father: Samuel HEFNER
Mother: Catherine WETZEL

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Milissa V. CANNON
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 22 February 1834
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 11 May 1894
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Stonecypher Cemetery, Rabun County, Georgia
Marriage date: 20 March 1856
Marriage place: Rabun County, Georgia
Spouses' names: William STONECYPHER (1826-1899)

Child No. 2: Jabel V. CANNON
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 1836
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 14 September 1862
Place of death: Crampton's Gap, Maryland
Burial: unknown/Maryland
Marriage date: Never Married
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 3: Amanda CANNON
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 13 October 1837
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 07 September 1915
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Wiley Cemetery, Rabun County, Georgia
Marriage date: Circa 1857
Marriage place: Georgia
Spouses' names: Jesse W. GREEN (1834-1906)

Child No. 4: Catherine CANNON
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 22 November 1839
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 17 December 1916
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Alley Cemetery, Rabun County, Georgia
Marriage date: Circa 1859
Marriage place: Georgia
Spouses' names: James Madison RAMEY (1845-1922)

Child No. 5: Horace Porter CANNON
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 1842
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 29 August 1864
Place of death: Gordonsville, Virginia
Burial: Mass Confederate Grave, Maplewood Cemetery, Gordonsville, Virginia
Marriage date: Never Married
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 6: Henry K. CANNON
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 06 March 1846
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 28 May 1906
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Bleckley Cemetery, Rabun County, Georgia
Marriage date: 01 January 1874
Marriage place: Rabun County, Georgia
Spouses' names: Mary Elizabeth BLECKLEY (1850-1909)

Child No. 7: Russell E. CANNON
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 23 May 1848
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 22 April 1908
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Bleckley Cemetery, Rabun County, Georgia
Marriage date: 28 December 1871
Marriage place: Rabun County, Georgia
Spouses' names: Henrietta Catherine BLECKLEY (1848-1930)

Child No. 8: Susan R. CANNON
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 03 April 1850
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 10 December 1931
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Clayton Baptist Church Cemetery, Rabun Co., Georgia
Marriage date: 20 January 1870
Marriage place: Rabun County, Georgia
Spouses' names: John W. GREEN (1844-1910)

Child No. 9 James Alvin Cannon
Sex: Male
Birthdate: January 22, 1852
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 24 March 1939
Place of death: Pickens Co., South Carolina
Burial: Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery, Pickens, Pickens Co., South Carolina
Marriage date: April 8, 1894
Marriage place: North Carolina
Spouses' names: Georgianna "Anna" WHITMIRE (1875-1947)

Child No. 10: John C. CANNON
Sex: Male
Birthdate: January 22, 1852
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 22 October 1929
Place of death: Fulton Co., Georgia
Buried at Westview Cemetery, Fulton Co., Georgia
Marriage date: 1st. February 14, 1877, 2nd April 17, 1910
Marriage place: Rabun County, Georgia (for both marriages)
Spouses' names: 1st. Sarah Elizabeth "Salley" ALLEY; 2nd. Minnie A. GARLAND

Child No. 11: Eliza W. "Bettie" CANNON
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 1854
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 03 March 1934
Place of death: Asheville, North Carolina
Burial: Asheville, North Carolina
Marriage date: 27 March 1874
Marriage place: Rabun County, Georgia
Spouses' names: 1st. John Craig GIBSON
2nd. A. W. FARMER

Child No. 12: Eliza Walhalla "Wallie" CANNON
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 05 February 1855
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 27 May 1937
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Alley Cemetery, Rabun County, Georgia
Marriage date: 1st. January 15, 1880; 2nd, After 1895
Marriage place: 1st. Rabun County, Georgia; 2nd Georgia
Spouses' names: 1st. Hillyer C. ALLEY (1844-1895) 2nd. E. W. MORTON

Child No. 13: Hiram Raleigh CANNON
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 1856
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 06 August 1936
Place of death: Fulton County, Georgia
Burial: Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
Marriage date: 1st. 08 February 1882, After 1900
Marriage place: 1st. Rabun County, Georgia, 2nd. Georgia
Spouses' names: 1st. Mary DUNCAN; 2nd. Martha Estella "Essie" CHURCH (1876-1946)

Child No. 14: Ada A. CANNON
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 08 May 1859
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 31 October 1882
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Alley Cemetery, Rabun County, Georgia
Marriage date: 30 December 1881
Marriage place: Rabun County, Georgia
Spouses' names: Thomas L. BLECKLEY (1854-1885)

Child No. 15: Savannah CANNON
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 08 June 1861
Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia
Death date: 11 November 1950
Place of death: Rabun County, Georgia
Burial: Clayton Baptist Church Cemetery, Rabun County, Georgia
Marriage date: 31 January 1884
Marriage place: Rabun County, Georgia
Spouses' names: James E. BLECKLEY (1858-1924)
 
 
Documentation:
* Research of John Burnett of Kingsville, Texas.
* Sketches of Rabun County History by Andrew Jackson Ritchie, pages 74-85.
* Rabun County Georgia Cemetery Records, Rabun County Georgia Census 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900.
* Rabun County Marriage Records.

Notes:
* Mr. Horace W. Cannon was very active in County and State politics.
* At the Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia to decide the question of Secession, Horace W. Cannon voted against Secession from the Union. However, he supported the Confederacy and as privations got harder during the war he was appointed to several commissions in which he was the agent for Rabun County, Georgia in securing supplies of corn and salt and other means of support for indigent women whose husbands were in the Confederate Army or who had been killed.
* He served in the House and Senate of the Georgia General Assembly in the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1851, 1855.
* Two of the Cannon sons served in the Confederate Army: Jabel V. Cannon served from 1861-1862 as a Captain in Company E, 24 Georgia infantry and Horace Porter Cannon served 1861 to 1864 in the same company first as a private then as a Captain. Both sons died in the war.