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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Where the Kennon/Cannon families settled next

I thought it would be easy to look at where Elizabeth Lewis Kennon's children were born, raised their families an died, to get an idea of how they came to North Carolina and Tennessee.

My big mistake.  But I've determined they were all born in Virginia.

John Cannon (the first  to spell it that way) born in VA 1744 died in 1806 someplace in TN.  He had a cemetery listed on Ancestry where his name is not listed but they do say 10% of the graves in Grassy Valley Baptist Cemetery, in Knox County, don't have markers.  So it's possible he was buried there (he's my 5th great grandfather.)  There seems to have been another John who is listed in some of the genealogies as being born in 1752 and dying in 1812, with similar parents, marriage etc.  This is the fun of the Cannon/Kennon family, there are so many of them all named the same, and living at the same time!

Charles Lewis Kennon b. 1750, in VA, d. 1820, Oxford, Granville County, NC

Mary Kennon who married Thomas Harrison, b. 1750 (twin of Charles? or just an approximate date?) d. 1782 Caswell County, NC

William Kennon who married Elizabeth (Betsey) Bullock, and then Betsey Harrison, b. 1751, d. 1804 Granville County, NC

Richard Kennon, b. 1752, d 1804 Chatham County, NC

Elizabeth Howell Kennon m. John Lewis (her cousin) b. 1754, d. 1825 Milledgeville, Baldwin, GA

Thomas H. Kennon, b. 1756, d. unknown

So mother Elizabeth Lewis Kennon could have lived with several of her adult children's families, and at this point, it really doesn't matter, does it?

It's been fun looking at various cemeteries and finding 20 or some Kennons buried in them.  There are obviously more descendants than just my family tree!

John Cannon was the father of William Henry Cannon, who was the father of Cyntha Cannon Rogers of Sevierville, TN who moved to Texas with her husband Micajah Rogers.


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