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OBITUARY OF JOSEPH T. CANNON.
Rev. Joseph T. Cannon
was born in Shelby county, Ohio, September 18, 1814, and
died of dropsy in Cass county, Nebraska, July 24, 1883,
in the seventieth year of his age.
His grandfather was a
native of Tennessee, and a school-mate of Gen. A.
Jackson. Joseph T. Cannon was converted to God at the age
of seventeen. Was married November 7, 1835, to Miss
Phoebe Jordon. In 1839 he was licensed to preach, and for
fourteen years labored on various circuits in the
Missouri Conference as a local preacher.
In 1851, he joined the
Missouri Conference, and was ordained Deacon by Bishop
Waugh at Hannibal, Missouri. In 1855, he moved to Otoe
county, Nebraska, within the bounds of Kansas and
Nebraska Conference, and continued in the itinerancy
three years.
In 1860, he was appointed
to pioneer work, and stationed at Central City, Colorado.
While there, he, with Rev. Bro. Watson (brother to
Richard Watson of Methodist fame), erected the first
Methodist Church in that country. They built it mostly
with their own hands, hewing the logs on the mountain
side, and carrying them on their shoulders to the site of
the Church. His labors there told seriously on his
health, and he returned to Nebraska, and settled on his
farm in Cass county, near the Union M. E. Church.
In 1870, be was elected to
the Eighth Legislature of Nebraska, and did his work
well. In 1871, his wife died, in the blissful hope of
heaven, leaving a husband and three children to mourn
their loss. In 1874, he married Mrs. Mary S. Daley, who
now survives him.
As a preacher, Bro. Cannon
was moderate in speech, concise and practical. In the
Conference he enjoyed the respect of all, and was highly
esteemed by those who knew him best. As a Christian, he
was quiet, thoughtful, patient, and persevering. He
suffered much by disease, which sometimes brought clouds
and disappointment to his mind, but never did he lose
confidence in his God. His end was peaceful and grandly
triumphant. He even exulted in the approaching hour, and
passed gently away to his reward, leaving a wife and
little son, Wallace, and three adult married children.
Thus Bro. Cannon lived long, labored much, and died
triumphantly.
R. COOLEY,
W. R. JONES,
H. BURCH.
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Sep. 7, 1888.
SARAH P. CHAPIN
Mrs. Sarah P. Chapin was
born at Gloucester, Massachusetts, August 1, 1837, was
the daughter of Edward and Mary Perkins, who were staunch
Methodists from early life. She was converted and joined
the M. E. Church at the age of twenty-one; was a great
lover of the Church and ministry. She left her friends
and home in the East eleven years ago to come to this new
country, believing that God had a mission for her
husband. She never complained at any sacrifice required
at her hands. She was a great help to her husband, a safe
counselor, never happier than when the Church was
prospering. She died triumphantly September 12,
1882,--aged forty-five.
R COOLEY.
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