Carlisle Cemetery, Elkrun Township, Columbiana County, Ohio

     Back at the infancy of my genealogy search, I located the cemetery where some of my maternal ancestors are buried.  Unfortunately, it was in my infancy and my photographs of the tombstones reflect it.  Also, unfortunately, I have not taken the time in thirty-two years to correct it. 😞

     On Sunday, October 10, 1993, My mother, Martha Jean Stark Hughes and I, drove to Columbiana County, Ohio to find the Carlisle Cemetery in Elkrun Township, Section 29.  Using a township road map, finding the cemetery was easy.  

     We were looking for the Orr and Cannon family final resting places.  I located the information using the Columbiana County Genealogical Societies very informational cemetery books.

Red star marks the location of the
Carlisle Cemetery

     The Carlisle Cemetery is located in Section 29, Elkrun Township on County Road 900(Roller Roaster Road), just north of the intersection of County Road 895 (Cream Road).  My maternal great great great great grandfather, Joseph Orr's property, was very close by.  

     

     We located the Orr family under a very large tree on the back right hand side of the cemetery.  My maternal great great great grandfather, Joseph Orr's was broken off its base and was propped up against the tree with the written side facing the tree.  It was with a great deal of effort that Mom and I were able to turn it around.  My maternal great great great grandmother, Jane Kelso Orr was beside her husband.  

     Looking at the picture, to the left of Joseph and Jane are two of their grandsons who died from their participation in the Civil War, Joseph Frederick Orr and Benjamin Franklin Orr.  

     The line of Orr Family tombstones.  Left to right:  Joseph Frederick Orr, Benjamin Franklin Orr, Joseph Orr, Jane Kelso Orr, Franklin Orr, William Morland Orr (my maternal great great grandfather) and Mary A. Orr.

Joseph Orr

Died

October 26, 1857

Aged

69 years 10 months

11 days

Jane

Wife of Joseph Orr

Died

December 28, 1847

Aged

53 years 11 months

15 days

Franklin

son of

J & J Orr

Died August 16, 1839

Age 2 years

William M Orr

Born

1813

Died

February 11, 1849

35 years 9 months 13 days

Mary A.

Daughter of

W & N Orr

Died

March 25, 1859

Age 18

Benjamin Franklin Orr

Died

August 15, 1863

Aged

22 years 10 months 15 days

Joseph Frederick Orr

Died

September 16, 1863

Aged

21 years 19 days

     

     Next we located the grave sites of Lindsey Cannon and his wife Elizabeth Fife Cannon.  At that time I thought they were my maternal great great great grand aunt and uncle.  Further research years later proved they were actually my great great great grandparents.  

Lindsey Cannon

Died

December 1871

At Age

92 years 8 months 11 days

     Lindsey's tombstone was flat on the ground face down.  There was no way Mom and I could pry it up.  That effort waited until the family came on Christmas Eve.  The males, with the help of a crowbar, lifted it up and propped it against the tombstone base.  

Elizabeth

Wife of

Lindsey Canon

Died

October 14, 1873

Aged

84 years 1 mo 22 dys

     Elizabeth Fife Cannon, Lindsey's wife, is my maternal great great great grandmother.  

CANNON

MATTHEW

1824-1906

ELIZABETH

Wife

1836-1901

     Matthew Cannon and Elizabeth Hepburn, my maternal great great grand aunt and uncle are also buried in the Carlisle Cemetery.

Copied from Find A Grave

MARCH

John 1801-1881

Elisabeth 1809-1889

Mary Dau 1830-1907

     Another member of my Cannon family, Elisabeth Cannon March and two members of her family are buried in the cemetery.  Elizabeth is a daughter of Lindsey and Elizabeth Fife Cannon, and is my maternal great great grand aunt.  

 

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Big Mistake--Cannon Brothers, Which One?

     Amy Johnson Crow has a 52 Ancestors Week blog challenge which I have decided to give a try for the second year. 

    The prompt for week # 15 is Big Mistake.

     One of my biggest mistakes was deciding which Cannon brother in Columbiana County, Ohio in the early 1800's was my maternal great great great grandfather.  Of the four, John, Thomas, Lindsey and Matthew, I decided on John.  

Garrett with John Cannon, Jr.

Ken with John A. Cannon
Clarkson Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Clarkson, Middleton Township
Columbiana County, Ohio

     

     Oddly, I was going through my hard copy Cannon files to digitize them and there was all my research on the wrong Cannon.  I laughed at the pictures of John Cannon's tombstone which we visited on a memorable family Christmas Eve drive to Columbiana County in 1993 and, it appears, we were there a second time when there was no snow.  

 

     My Fife line descends from first cousins who married.  John Fife the son of William Fife, Sr. and Elizabeth Fife the daughter of John Fife, Sr.  William and John Fife were brothers.  One of John and Elizabeth's daughters was Elizabeth Fife who married Lindsey Cannon.  

     Researching the Fife Family requires a great deal of patience as in each generation the same names repeat ad nauseum.  

      I tied myself to John Cannon as my ancestor until another researcher sent me the above information taken from a turn of the twentieth century Fife Family reunion document.  Holy Toledo!  I've linked myself to the wrong Cannon.  I think this happened as I was a newbie to genealogy and saw both John and Lindsey had daughter's named Nancy Cannon.  Nancy married to William Morland Orr is my maternal great great grandmother.  I had originally chosen the wrong Cannon brother as her father and my ancestor.   

Lindsey's tombstone in Elkrun Township
Carlisle Cemetery
Fall 1993

Christmas Eve visit 1993
Up righted with crowbar in photo

     I had seen the broken tombstone of Lindsey Cannon on a trip to the Carlisle Cemetery with my mother.  We drove there because my maternal great great great grandfather Joseph Orr and his son, William Morland Orr, my maternal great great grandfather are buried there.  Seeing a Cannon tombstone was a bonus.  Although at that time, I considered him my great great great-granduncle.

     When the family was on the Christmas Eve sojourn to Columbiana County, Ohio in 1993 we again visited the Carlisle Cemetery.  We had a crowbar with us to set Lindsey's tombstone into an upright position. Below are some of my notes from the journal of that trip.

"There are seven graves in the Orr row--all relatives.  In the front row of the Carlisle Cemetery is Lindsey Cannon's (John Cannon's brother) grave.  His tombstone had broken off and fallen forward into the ground.  Ken, Jeff and Ted were able to pry the tombstone out of the snow, ice and dirt with the crowbar and prop it up on the base at the grave sight."

     Now, looking into Flipside, I notice I have covered two of the four Cannon brothers.  With all the research I did on John A. Cannon, perhaps I should get busy and blog about my maternal great great great-granduncle.

     And, a blog on the Christmas Eve in Columbiana County.

     

 

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