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Show PRES. ANGUS IH. ;M CANNON CALLED ' End of an Eventful Llfo Which Had ' IH Kb Setting Largely in tho . ' H Southern Counties. , ? , H (Washington County News.) p -M Pres. David 11. Cannon and Mia, i ',. H Ann C. Woodburj' left on tho stage ' );; ' H Tuesday morning for Salt Lako City ; ' !'iH to attend tho funeral of their brother, i tH AnguR M. Cannon, who died at his f :H homo in Forest Dale, Monday morn- ( t H ing, June 7, at 0:40 o'clock. Mrs. ) 'H Rhoda Cannon accompanied Pres. D. tJi :H H. Cannon to Salt Lake, i j flH Angus Munn Cannon, the second ' 9 living son of Gcorgo and Ann Quale ' H Cannon, was born May 17, 1834. ( l H His parents received the gospel in .M Liverpool, England, although the ' H ancestral home of the Cannon family , I 'H was tho Islo of Man. They sailed for i '"H America Sept. 18, 1842, nnd the moth- I i H er died and was buried In tho ocean. v ;H Tho father nnd children landed at f $H Now Orleans after an eight-weeks iy H voyage. They experienced many t a tH trials in continuing their journey to ; ,H Nauvoo where they wore kindly re- 1 H ceived by the Saints and rejoiced in ;, 'H seeing and hearing the Prophet 1 H Joseph Smith. With the other Saints . ) M they wero. driven from NauVoo in tho H fall of 1847, and obtained shelter at 1 ;H Winter Quarters, on the West sido of 1 ( ;H tho Missouri river a few miles north 1 l ,H of tho present city of Omaha, Tho I , 'H father having died at Nauvoo, the ; j H children wero cared for by Georgo , 1 H Lambert and his wife, the latter a ; ) H daughter of George Cannon, and ac- I ! H companicd them across the plains, 1 i H reaching tho Salt Lako valley In Oc k t H tobcr, 1840. j M After arriving at Salt Lake, the 'H first work engaged in by Angus M. ,, H Cannon was farming. In 1850 he H joined tho Nauvoo Legion. in the ' H fall of 1850 he went with Georgo A. H Smith to help settle parowau. und ' H while there made the, firt lbodos to 1 .H be used in the first buildfui; erected. H Returning to. Salt Lake he worked in a 'H the-ypiuiUthflJaUW, .,&& "M when ne was apprenticed to tno print- ., rH ing office of the, Desjrct News. Ih 1 VH Avmist, 1854, he went witi others H to Parley's canyon and recovered the ' j H todies of settler's who bad-'been killed t, H by Indians. From Sept. 4, 151, to H'H Jupo 21, 1858,. he performed micafen- t H ary work in Conneticut, New Jersey, i H and Pennsylvania. After .returning $ H to Salt Lake he engaged in farming, 1 1 H bt.?l: rcik'ng, teaming and then wcit UH irto the pottery business win Eardly H Brothers. H In the fall of 1861 he, was called f M on tho "Dixie" mission .under Elder . H Erabtus Snow, and was one of the y H pioneers of St. George. He helpsd to. ' H locato and lay out, the town of SU (J H George and was Ha first mayor, serv-. 1 'H ing in that capacity for two terms.. ' H While hero ho helped to suppress In- H dian outbrcakes, and was with the H party that brought in the bodies of H Dr. Whitmoro and Robert Mclntyre, .. ' JM who had been killed by Indiana. Hu ' H was released from the "Dixie" mis- J H slon in 1868. In 1870 Mr. Cannon 1; M Went on another mission to'Pennsyl- H vanla, and after his return he. became I H business managor of the Dcqerct i H News, of which his brother, Georgo , H Q. Cannon, was editor at that time. B In April, 1876, he was chosen under U H tho direction of Brigham Young as jj H president of Salt Lake Stake, in which I 'H capacity ho labored for about 38 years, j. H Mr. Cannon's labors were numerous j$ H and various and he led a very active , H " I Funeral services for Patriarch i M Cannon will be held in tho Assembly ,; M hall, Salt Late City, Friday, June 11, t M at U;&Q a.m. i'l M |