My four greats grandmother...

 Catherine Henderson Cannon 1778–1827 

I posted two years ago about her father and his son of the same name, My Four Greats Grandfather William Henderson and his son, (though her father would have been five greats actually.)

Her parents were Lt. William Henderson (1741-?) and Mary Catharine Beavers Henderson. It's interesting that Catharine Henderson Cannon's daughter, Cyntha Cannon married Micajah Rogers, who's grandmother had also been named Mary Beavers (deBeauvillers/Bieber) who married Lt. Spencer Clack of Siever County TN. They tried to anglicize their name, after it had been French, then German in the past.

We don't know Catharine (Catherine)'s exact date of birth, but it was in the 1777/78 time. The calendar has changed, so one year difference is expected. She was born in the Virginia Colony.

She married William Henry Cannon (1771-1868) in Sevier County, Tennessee on August 22 1799. Both the Cannon and the Henderson families had emmigrated to Tennessee from Virginia. The Cannons had 8 children.

I'm spending my time today trying to discover how she ended up dying in another county in TN than the one she lived in all her life. Her last child would have been around 7 years old. Her husband outlived her by 40 years.

If she had been ill, I would have imagined Cyntha, her oldest daughter would have cared for her. Cyntha had been married in 1819, and had  the first 4 of her 10 children by then, all in the Sevierville area.

Catherine Henderson Cannon died in Athens, McMinn County TN, which is about 80 miles from Sevierville. There is no relative, sibling or child that lived there that I could find. It's a mystery!