Clarissa (Clara) Cordelia Moses Mason Cannon

21 April 1839 — 21 August 1926

1 Born at Westfield, Hampton County, Massachusetts; daughter of Lydia Ensign and Ambrose Todd Moses. 2 Sailed to California aboard the Brooklyn, 1846. 3 Married first William Henry Mason, 1858 or 1859, at San Francisco; five children. 4 Widowed, 1868. 5 Moved to Salt Lake City, 1872. 6 Married second Angus Munn Cannon as a plural wife, 1875, at Salt Lake City; three children. 7 Served as the first president of the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward Primary, as a counselor in the Salt Lake Stake Primary, and as a counselor in the Salt Lake Stake Relief Society. Served as a counselor in the general Primary presidency, 1880–1895. 8 Moved to Centerville, Davis County, Utah, circa 1916. 9 Died at Centerville; buried at Salt Lake City. 10 (See Document 4.4)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Oct. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 69/550 (1926), Clara C. Cannon.

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 69/550. Clarissa C. Moses Cannon, LDS Family Record, manuscript, n.d., in Clara C. Cannon papers, fol. 5, CHL. “Mrs. Cannon Rites Tuesday,” Deseret Evening News, Aug. 23, 1926, 1.

  3. [3] Beatrice Cannon Evans and Janath Russell Cannon, eds., Cannon Family Historical Treasury (Salt Lake City: George Cannon Family Association, 1967), 227. “Mrs. Cannon Rites Tuesday,” 1.

  4. [4] Cannon, LDS Family Record, CHL. Evans and Cannon, Cannon Family Historical Treasury, 228.

  5. [5] “Mrs. Cannon Rites Tuesday,” 1. Evans and Cannon, Cannon Family Historical Treasury, 228.

  6. [6] Ibid.

  7. [7] Ibid.

  8. [8] Evans and Cannon, Cannon Family Historical Treasury, 228–229.

  9. [9] Ibid., 229.

  10. [10] Utah death certificate, file no. 69/550. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 29, 2015), Clarissa Cordelia Moses KWJZ-WLQ .