1921 - Mrs. Cornelia Cannon, one of North Iowa's oldest Citizen's Buried
Notes from Florence Boudrou Emme - no source cited.
Last rites for Cornelia Cannon, Cerro Gordo woman, whose life time spanned the years from the time James Monroe, author of the Monroe Doctrine, was president, to June 20, 1921, were said at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. W. Dent, Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. H. S. Wilkinson of the First M. E. Church officiating at the funeral services and Mrs. H. W. Barclay and Miss Ruth Stevens sang three appropriate solos. The body was laid to eternal rest in Elmwood cemetery.
Miss Wait was one of the oldest women in North Iowa. She was born on a farm near Brookfield County, New York, Jan 16, 1823. She was married to Amaziah Cannon in Gerry Chautaqua County, New York, June 23, 1842. Thirteen years later the family moved to Columbia County, Wisc., where they lived eleven years. In 1866 they cam to Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, and located on a farm where she has lived the past fifty five years. Three children were born to her. Sidney B. Cannon, Mrs. Etta Storer, and Mrs. Emeline Dent. The two daughters live here, the son and husband have preceded her to the better land.
When she was born James Monroe was still president, Florida had but recently been purchased from Spain, land hereabouts had but a few years before been purchased from France, Indians were the only inhabitants in this region. She was five years old when the first railroad commenced to be constructed and six years old before the first locomotive pulled a train of cars upon it. She was 15 years old when the first steamship crossed the Atlantic. She was 21 years old when the first telegraph instrument began its practical help. She was 23 before the first sewing machine was invented. She was 35 when the Atlantic Cable was laid. She was 38 when the Civil War broke out and 40 when the Emancipation Proclamation set 4 million people free. She was 53 when the telephone was invented and 57 when the first electric lights were placed in city streets and 66 when the first electric street car began to shuttle back and forth, weaving the fabric of night city life.
Her childhood was spent on a farm when the farm life was almost sufficient unto itself but when it took everybody's tireless industry to make it such. Men cut their grain with sickles and threshed it with a flail and cleaned it with the wind of heaven. She saw the transformations from sickles such as were used in the fields of Boza in which Ruth gleaned to cradle, reaping machine. Marsh harvester and self binder; from flail to threshing machine; from oxen to tractor.
They carded the wool and spun it into yarn and knitted it into socks, they raised the flax, broke it and fibred it, spun it and wove it and made their own clothing. They braided their own straw into hats. In her little autobiography she says "we had no time for fancy work when I was young".
Life was stern to struggle then, to carve out farms from the wilderness; keep the family clothed against the winter cold; and fed from what the farm could supply. The great gifts which make life so comfortable to us now, and make it possible for us to enjoy the fruits and products of other lands; which load our tables with varied products and fill our homes with the world's beauty and chrm; have all been made possible to use within her life time. Not only by the calendar of the years but by the calendar of the changed conditions of life hers has been one of great strength and length.
sboudrou, relative
Notes from Florence Boudrou Emme - no source cited.
Last rites for Cornelia Cannon, Cerro Gordo woman, whose life time spanned the years from the time James Monroe, author of the Monroe Doctrine, was president, to June 20, 1921, were said at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. W. Dent, Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. H. S. Wilkinson of the First M. E. Church officiating at the funeral services and Mrs. H. W. Barclay and Miss Ruth Stevens sang three appropriate solos. The body was laid to eternal rest in Elmwood cemetery.
Miss Wait was one of the oldest women in North Iowa. She was born on a farm near Brookfield County, New York, Jan 16, 1823. She was married to Amaziah Cannon in Gerry Chautaqua County, New York, June 23, 1842. Thirteen years later the family moved to Columbia County, Wisc., where they lived eleven years. In 1866 they cam to Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, and located on a farm where she has lived the past fifty five years. Three children were born to her. Sidney B. Cannon, Mrs. Etta Storer, and Mrs. Emeline Dent. The two daughters live here, the son and husband have preceded her to the better land.
When she was born James Monroe was still president, Florida had but recently been purchased from Spain, land hereabouts had but a few years before been purchased from France, Indians were the only inhabitants in this region. She was five years old when the first railroad commenced to be constructed and six years old before the first locomotive pulled a train of cars upon it. She was 15 years old when the first steamship crossed the Atlantic. She was 21 years old when the first telegraph instrument began its practical help. She was 23 before the first sewing machine was invented. She was 35 when the Atlantic Cable was laid. She was 38 when the Civil War broke out and 40 when the Emancipation Proclamation set 4 million people free. She was 53 when the telephone was invented and 57 when the first electric lights were placed in city streets and 66 when the first electric street car began to shuttle back and forth, weaving the fabric of night city life.
Her childhood was spent on a farm when the farm life was almost sufficient unto itself but when it took everybody's tireless industry to make it such. Men cut their grain with sickles and threshed it with a flail and cleaned it with the wind of heaven. She saw the transformations from sickles such as were used in the fields of Boza in which Ruth gleaned to cradle, reaping machine. Marsh harvester and self binder; from flail to threshing machine; from oxen to tractor.
They carded the wool and spun it into yarn and knitted it into socks, they raised the flax, broke it and fibred it, spun it and wove it and made their own clothing. They braided their own straw into hats. In her little autobiography she says "we had no time for fancy work when I was young".
Life was stern to struggle then, to carve out farms from the wilderness; keep the family clothed against the winter cold; and fed from what the farm could supply. The great gifts which make life so comfortable to us now, and make it possible for us to enjoy the fruits and products of other lands; which load our tables with varied products and fill our homes with the world's beauty and chrm; have all been made possible to use within her life time. Not only by the calendar of the years but by the calendar of the changed conditions of life hers has been one of great strength and length.
sboudrou, relative
1921 - Mrs. Cornelia Cannon, one of North Iowa's oldest Citizen's Buried
Notes from Florence Boudrou Emme - no source cited.
Last rites for Cornelia Cannon, Cerro Gordo woman, whose life time spanned the years from the time James Monroe, author of the Monroe Doctrine, was president, to June 20, 1921, were said at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. W. Dent, Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. H. S. Wilkinson of the First M. E. Church officiating at the funeral services and Mrs. H. W. Barclay and Miss Ruth Stevens sang three appropriate solos. The body was laid to eternal rest in Elmwood cemetery.
Miss Wait was one of the oldest women in North Iowa. She was born on a farm near Brookfield County, New York, Jan 16, 1823. She was married to Amaziah Cannon in Gerry Chautaqua County, New York, June 23, 1842. Thirteen years later the family moved to Columbia County, Wisc., where they lived eleven years. In 1866 they cam to Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, and located on a farm where she has lived the past fifty five years. Three children were born to her. Sidney B. Cannon, Mrs. Etta Storer, and Mrs. Emeline Dent. The two daughters live here, the son and husband have preceded her to the better land.
When she was born James Monroe was still president, Florida had but recently been purchased from Spain, land hereabouts had but a few years before been purchased from France, Indians were the only inhabitants in this region. She was five years old when the first railroad commenced to be constructed and six years old before the first locomotive pulled a train of cars upon it. She was 15 years old when the first steamship crossed the Atlantic. She was 21 years old when the first telegraph instrument began its practical help. She was 23 before the first sewing machine was invented. She was 35 when the Atlantic Cable was laid. She was 38 when the Civil War broke out and 40 when the Emancipation Proclamation set 4 million people free. She was 53 when the telephone was invented and 57 when the first electric lights were placed in city streets and 66 when the first electric street car began to shuttle back and forth, weaving the fabric of night city life.
Her childhood was spent on a farm when the farm life was almost sufficient unto itself but when it took everybody's tireless industry to make it such. Men cut their grain with sickles and threshed it with a flail and cleaned it with the wind of heaven. She saw the transformations from sickles such as were used in the fields of Boza in which Ruth gleaned to cradle, reaping machine. Marsh harvester and self binder; from flail to threshing machine; from oxen to tractor.
They carded the wool and spun it into yarn and knitted it into socks, they raised the flax, broke it and fibred it, spun it and wove it and made their own clothing. They braided their own straw into hats. In her little autobiography she says "we had no time for fancy work when I was young".
Life was stern to struggle then, to carve out farms from the wilderness; keep the family clothed against the winter cold; and fed from what the farm could supply. The great gifts which make life so comfortable to us now, and make it possible for us to enjoy the fruits and products of other lands; which load our tables with varied products and fill our homes with the world's beauty and chrm; have all been made possible to use within her life time. Not only by the calendar of the years but by the calendar of the changed conditions of life hers has been one of great strength and length.
sboudrou, relative
Notes from Florence Boudrou Emme - no source cited.
Last rites for Cornelia Cannon, Cerro Gordo woman, whose life time spanned the years from the time James Monroe, author of the Monroe Doctrine, was president, to June 20, 1921, were said at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. W. Dent, Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. H. S. Wilkinson of the First M. E. Church officiating at the funeral services and Mrs. H. W. Barclay and Miss Ruth Stevens sang three appropriate solos. The body was laid to eternal rest in Elmwood cemetery.
Miss Wait was one of the oldest women in North Iowa. She was born on a farm near Brookfield County, New York, Jan 16, 1823. She was married to Amaziah Cannon in Gerry Chautaqua County, New York, June 23, 1842. Thirteen years later the family moved to Columbia County, Wisc., where they lived eleven years. In 1866 they cam to Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, and located on a farm where she has lived the past fifty five years. Three children were born to her. Sidney B. Cannon, Mrs. Etta Storer, and Mrs. Emeline Dent. The two daughters live here, the son and husband have preceded her to the better land.
When she was born James Monroe was still president, Florida had but recently been purchased from Spain, land hereabouts had but a few years before been purchased from France, Indians were the only inhabitants in this region. She was five years old when the first railroad commenced to be constructed and six years old before the first locomotive pulled a train of cars upon it. She was 15 years old when the first steamship crossed the Atlantic. She was 21 years old when the first telegraph instrument began its practical help. She was 23 before the first sewing machine was invented. She was 35 when the Atlantic Cable was laid. She was 38 when the Civil War broke out and 40 when the Emancipation Proclamation set 4 million people free. She was 53 when the telephone was invented and 57 when the first electric lights were placed in city streets and 66 when the first electric street car began to shuttle back and forth, weaving the fabric of night city life.
Her childhood was spent on a farm when the farm life was almost sufficient unto itself but when it took everybody's tireless industry to make it such. Men cut their grain with sickles and threshed it with a flail and cleaned it with the wind of heaven. She saw the transformations from sickles such as were used in the fields of Boza in which Ruth gleaned to cradle, reaping machine. Marsh harvester and self binder; from flail to threshing machine; from oxen to tractor.
They carded the wool and spun it into yarn and knitted it into socks, they raised the flax, broke it and fibred it, spun it and wove it and made their own clothing. They braided their own straw into hats. In her little autobiography she says "we had no time for fancy work when I was young".
Life was stern to struggle then, to carve out farms from the wilderness; keep the family clothed against the winter cold; and fed from what the farm could supply. The great gifts which make life so comfortable to us now, and make it possible for us to enjoy the fruits and products of other lands; which load our tables with varied products and fill our homes with the world's beauty and chrm; have all been made possible to use within her life time. Not only by the calendar of the years but by the calendar of the changed conditions of life hers has been one of great strength and length.
sboudrou, relative
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