Emily Irene (Oviatt) Cannon, mother of Mrs. Fred Blake of Afton township, Cherokee County, Iowa, died Wednesday evening, June 7, 1933, at her home near Mason City, Iowa. She was the daughter of Buell and Fannie Burdick Oviatt, and was born in Alfred Centre, New York, May 28, 1831. She passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. May Butts, of Plymouth, Iowa, June 7, 1933, at the age of 102 years and 12 days. She was the eldest of a family of ten children. Burial was made in the Afton Cemetery.

Funeral services were held at the Blake home Saturday afternoon at one o'clock.

When Emily was seven years of age, the family moved to Pennsylvania. Six years later her father felt the call of the West and brought his family to Wisconsin.

Here in 1849 she was married to Ephriam D. Cannon. In June 1867, Mr. and Mrs. Cannon came to Iowa, landing in Cherokee County, living first on a homestead in Cherokee township and a few years later moved to their farm in Minnesota, where Ephriam Cannon passed away October 19, 1900.

From that time on, Mrs. Cannon lived among her children. She was the mother of 13. Three passed away in their infancy, (Ephraim E. Cannon (1871-1872), Chancy, Olive). Fannie (Cannon) Ferguson died in 1922, Dr. Charles M. Cannon in 1923.

Survivors are Fred F. Cannon, Roosevelt, Minnesota; Mrs. Allie Coleman of National City, California; Clara May Butts; Mrs. Lena Garlock Barnes; and Florence Persis(Cannon) Smith of Plymouth, Iowa; Clinton J. Cannon, Elva Rose Goodrich, and Effie Blake of Cherokee. Also, twenty-nine grandchildren and several great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren; a half sister, Mrs. Emma Gilbert of Milton Junction, Wisconsin, survives her at the age of 85 years. Mrs. Cannon's parents were (Seventh Day) Baptists, but when coming west she united with the Methodist Church