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Death of Capt. John R« Cannon.As anticipated in our issuo of yesterday, I lt;Capt. John U. Cannon is dead, having ex-I pi red at a few minutes before 4 o’clock in r the afternoon. Capt. Cannon was born in I Jiloomington, Indiana, but removed at an 11 curly age to Scott county, Ky,, where ho I was reared. Subsequently ho returned to I Indiana, fettling in Lawrence coumy, and I about sixteen years ago removed to this I: city. lie was in the forty-eighth year of I; his age—in the very prime of life, ap-|' parently. Hut ho was stricken with a fatal r malady—Bright’s disease of tha kidneys—ji which has taken off many prominent men I lt;within a few years, and for which no cure 11 is known to the medical faculty. ICapt. Cannon was known as one of curl; most active and enterprising citizens, being I always forward in every public work calcu-[ lated to advance the interests and welfare of 11 the city. During the war be served as a r regimental and afterwards a= a brigade I quartermaster, discharging bis duties in a I most satisfactory manner, and eliciting the [' warm encomiums of his superior officers. I , But it was in his own family and among his I kindred that Capt. Cannon was most dearly ! loved. He was a kind husband and a most I affectionate and loving father. His kind-1 ness of heart was conspicuous on all occa-| sions where those nearest and dearest to I him were concerned, and, great as will be I his Mss to the community at large, it is in I his own immediate family that the blow will I fall with most crushing weight. He leaves I a wife and two daughters, one of them the I wife of Charles R. Long, Esq., of Louis-1 ville. Messrs. G. C. and H. O. Cannon are J his brothers, by whom he was loved with I fraternal affrction. *
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 18, 1869
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