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Name: Jason Nathaniel Cannon
Death Date: 16 Oct 1972
Death Place: Jasper, Jasper, Texas
Gender: Male
Race:
Death Age: 78 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1894
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Father's Name: Henry Albert Cannon
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Durden
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Film Number: 2242193
Digital Film Number: 4169872
Image Number: 1953
Reference Number: 84098
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

World War II Draft registration cards, on the same website, show he was born in Hemphill on 7 Jan 1894. The 1920 census instead shows his place of birth as Louisiana.

Bonnie Hyden, a granddaughter, writes that "Grandpa was born in Rainbow, Louisiana...if I remember correctly. He was a prize fighter in his younger days...and quite good, from what Dad says. He ended up in Galveston, Tx at one point. One day he was in a small cafe where a man started a ruckus...which Grandpa finished for him and threw the man out! Grandpa was not a big man...he just had all the right moves. ;-) The owner of the cafe was a Greek man and he was impressed with Grandpa...so he hired him. This started Grandpa in the cafe business. Somehow, he ended up in Lufkin, Texas where he met Bessie Register...Grandma Cannon. The Registers were a fairly "well-to-do" family in Lufkin and they didn't take too kindly to Grandma taking a shine to Grandpa! As I hear, the Registers NEVER cared for Grandpa...and the feeling was mutual. Dad says that Grandpa had lived a fairly "free" lifestyle and loved to dance. Grandma was a devout Nazarene and therefore dancing was a BIG no-no. For her...Grandpa gave up bars, dancing and all his wild ways. At some point they moved to Hemphill, Texas where Grandpa opened up a cafe on the town square. Grandma was always in poor health and having all those kids didn't help any. She was in and out of hospitals, and such facilities. I've heard she was hospitalized when she gave birth to Aunt Marguerite and was sedated to the point that she did not remember the birth...and didn't believe that was her baby! Dad says that he has one memory of them all sitting down at the table for supper, as a family. Grandpa was always working at the cafe; Grandma was always sick. Gramdma passed away when Dad was 12. The older kids were big enough to go out on their own but Dad and two younger brothers were pretty much on their own...they thought. Dad says now that he realizes everyone in town was watching them and would report to Grandpa on their activities and whereabouts, although he didn't know it then. Which was cause for some confusion when they'd come to the cafe or home and Grandpa would give them a switchin' for some supposed secret...yet wrong deed! lol

Grandpa was a man of rigid yet right principles and he didn't mind at all standing up for what was right. One story says that he ran a preacher out of town because he was teaching from some "new" Bible which, apparently, didn't quite line up with the one Grandpa had. My favorite story, from Dad, concerns two men who had been out all night drinking and decided to stop in to the cafe for a bite to eat. Upon entering the cafe they got loud, vulgar and disruptive running off most of Grandpa's customers. This did NOT sit well with Grandpa Cannon! The two men seated themselves at the counter and ORDERED a steak meal. Grandpa silently went into the kitchen, slapped two steaks on the grill, turned them over and then slapped them into the plate...about that fast. He finished their dinners off with cold, day old mashed 'taters and whatever vegetable he had sitting there...waiting to go into the hog slop. He then took the plates to the end of the counter and slid them down the counter to his "customers". Dad says that Grandpa consider sliding a plate to a customer the height of rudeness. The two men took one look at their plates and didn't like what they saw. But...when they looked up at Grandpa to "protest"...they were looking straight into the barrel of his .45 which he kept under the counter. He ordered them to eat their dinners...every last bit...then he made them pay and told them to get out and don't EVER come back. When the men got to their truck, they were a bit "aggravated" so they figured they'd teach J.N a lesson. (That's what everyone around here knew Grandpa by). The men retrieved their shotguns from their truck and commenced to shooting out the large picture windows of the cafe! Grandpa answered them back with his .45 and actually wounded one of the men. That convinced the other man that Grandpa wasn't up for being bullied and he put his gun down. The wounded man was rushed to the local dr and the Sheriff stopped in to the cafe to question Grandpa. Grandpa asked the Sheriff, "Did I call you?" The Sheriff replied, "Well no, J.N. But hell! You shot a man! I have to get a statement from you." Grandpa stated, "There are only two reasons you need to be in my establishment. 1) to eat. 2) if I call you. I didn't call you. So, are you here to eat?" Sheriff, "No...but...J.N....we have to clear this up!" Grandpa, "It's clear. They ran off my customers, they trashed my place. I shot what I was aiming at and the whole thing came to an end. Now...if you're not eating, I think it best you leave." And...the Sheriff left. BUT...Grandpa then went everyday and visited the man he had shot, taking him free meals (since hospital food wasn't any good, he said) and they were good friends after that.

I only have a handful of personal memories of Grandpa since we lived out of state, but in his later years he operated a fruit stand at the corner of the square. I remember stopping by there once and never in my short life had I ever seen such."

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Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, Angelina County, JP #1
Enumerated 14 Day Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 4 Sheet 2A
Lufkin and Burke Road
29-29
Cannon, Jason Head M W 26 M La Ala Ala Farmer
Cannon, Bessie Wf F W 25 m Tx Tx Tx
Cannon, Hilie Mother F W 51 Wd Ala Ala Ala
Caoon, Jessie Sister F W 16 S Tx Ala Ala
Cannon, Mixon Br M W 12 S Tx Ala Ala
Cannon, Rosie Sister F W 10 S Tx Ala Ala

Jason married Bessie Register. Bessie was born on 17 Jul 1895 in Texas; died on 3 Dec 1942 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Shown by Rose Diane Stanley as a daughter of Benjamin Franklin Register and Sarah Jane "Biddie" Massingill.

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His tombstone indicates the following Military Service: WW II - Texas TEC4 HQ TRP Fifth Cav

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Name: Marshall Albert Bly
Death Date: 13 Jan 1968
Death Place: Houston, Harris, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 57 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 19 Nov 1910
Birthplace: Logansport, Louisiana, Usa
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Charlie A. Bly
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Levania Anderson
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Laborer, Lumber
Place of Residence: Sabine Co., Texas
Cemetery: Yellowpine Cemetery
Burial Place: Sabine, Texas
Burial Date: 14 Jan 1968
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2138887
Digital Film Number: 4027197
Image Number: 54
Reference Number: 03450
Collection: Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976

Marshall married Zuma Divitha Jones. Zuma (daughter of Samuel B. Jones and Lorena Walker) was born on 24 Jul 1911 in Texas; died on 10 Nov 1982; was buried in Yellowpine Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Not listed with the family at the time of the 1920 census?

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Virgie Speights wrote a sketch of this couple on the occasion of their 58th wedding anniversary, in a column of hers dated August 6, 1963. It was published in her book "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas." He was a Methodist Minister at the First Methodist Church. He was born in Shellrock, Freeborn County, MN, moving with his family to Chicago, Ill, where is father was a railroad worker with the Rock Island Railroad. Bly's first job was also with the railroa, but her preached on the side until 1902, when he moved to Arkansas to become pastor at Chippo, and has been a full time pastor ever since. His next pastorage was at Mansfield, Louisiana, where he met and married Lavinia Anderson. They moved into the Hemphill parsonage, and except for a few years in Kentucky, West Virginia and other Texas towns, lived there through his retirement.

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Name: Charles Alvin Bly
Death Date: 22 Feb 1970
Death Place: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Male
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Death Age: 97 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1873
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Father's Name: Alvin Bly
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Mother's Name: Estelle Amy
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Film Number: 2218584
Digital Film Number: 4168861
Image Number: 2117
Reference Number: 13975
Collection: Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976

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Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, San Augustine, JP 4
Enumerated 7 Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 179 Sheet 5B
87-89
Bly, Charlie Head m W 42 (???) M Minnesota Ill NY Lumber Goods Planer? Mill
Bly, Teblye (sci) Wf F W 37 M La Ala La
Bly, Charlie D Son m W 13 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Lenena Dtr F W 11 S Ky Min La
Bly, Marshal Son M W 9 S La Minn La
Bly, Edith Dtr F W 7 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Loyd Son m W 5 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Norine Dtr F W 2 S Tx Minn La

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 7
Enumerated April 7, 1930
ED 202-10 SD 19 Sheet 1A Stamped 111
Scrapping Valley Road
11-11
Bly, Charley A Head M W 58 m 32 Minnesota Ill NY farmer
Bly, Lavinia Wf F W 48 m 24 La Ga La
Bly, Edith Dtr F W 17 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Loyd Son m W 15 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Lorene Dtr F W 12 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Laurence Son M W 10 S Tx Minn La
Bly, Earl Son M W 7 S Tx Minn La

Charles married Lavinia Elizabeth Anderson on 3 Aug 1905 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Lavinia was born on 21 Jul 1881 in Louisiana; died on 8 Mar 1975 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Virgie Speights wrote a sketch of this couple on the occasion of their 58th wedding anniversary, in a column of hers dated August 6, 1963. It was published in her book "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas." She stated that the couple met in Mansfield, Louisiana, where Mrs. Bly, the former Miss Lavinia Anderson, lived at the time. "Mrs. Bly is also alert, energetic and serene. She keeps her house spic and span and is an excellent cook." Virgie added that the couple had a "tintype of Mrs. Bly's father in Civil War Confederate uniform, made about 1860 or 1861."

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Name: Lavinia Elizabeth Bly
Death Date: 08 Mar 1975
Death Place: Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas
Gender: Female
Race:
Death Age: 93 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1882
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Father's Name: William Anderson
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Ophelia Lafitte
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Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2243707
Digital Film Number: 4167404
Image Number: 18
Reference Number: 18
Collection: Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976

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(Research):

Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 7
Enumerated 13 Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 169 Sheet 7B
135-135
Jones, Samuel B Head m W 49 M Fl Fl Ga Farmer
Jones, Lorena Wf F W 42 M Tx Tx Tx
Jones, Eugene C Son m W 19 M Tx Tx Tx Laborer Log Works
Jones, Amos B Son M W 16 S Tx Tx Tx
Jones, Wm Laham Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx
Jones, Zuma Dtr F W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Jones, Lodima Dtr F W 6 S Tx Tx Tx
Jones, Ruby Dtr F W 4 8/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Jones, Susie Dtr-in-law F W 19 M Tx Tx Tx

Samuel married Lorena Walker. Lorena (daughter of John Latham Walker and Lucinda Lamberth) was born on 2 Oct 1877 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 20 Jan 1977; was buried in Yellowpine Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her father, John L. Walker, was living with the family at the time of the 1930 census.