Son of Thomas and Eliza Morrison Cannell, brother of Morrison, Thomas, John, William, Frank, Elizabeth, Harriet, Joanna and Charlotte. Husband of Margaret Lewis and father of Franklin and Eva Cannell.
Enlisted Oct 20 1864 Co A 177th Ohio over his Father's objections and refused returning home. Mustered out 24 June 1865 returned to Newburgh.
Left for Chicago then St. Louis. Worked as an architectual iron worker was injured on the job at Locust & Broadway in St Louis. The accident left his right hand and foot crippled. He requested a pension and was approved.
His first wife having died in 1888 he remarried a woman named Cora. It was the second marriage for both.
In one deposition he referred to himself as 'old crippled Buckeye'. At least his sense of humor was intact.
Enlisted Oct 20 1864 Co A 177th Ohio over his Father's objections and refused returning home. Mustered out 24 June 1865 returned to Newburgh.
Left for Chicago then St. Louis. Worked as an architectual iron worker was injured on the job at Locust & Broadway in St Louis. The accident left his right hand and foot crippled. He requested a pension and was approved.
His first wife having died in 1888 he remarried a woman named Cora. It was the second marriage for both.
In one deposition he referred to himself as 'old crippled Buckeye'. At least his sense of humor was intact.
Son of Thomas and Eliza Morrison Cannell, brother of Morrison, Thomas, John, William, Frank, Elizabeth, Harriet, Joanna and Charlotte. Husband of Margaret Lewis and father of Franklin and Eva Cannell.
Enlisted Oct 20 1864 Co A 177th Ohio over his Father's objections and refused returning home. Mustered out 24 June 1865 returned to Newburgh.
Left for Chicago then St. Louis. Worked as an architectual iron worker was injured on the job at Locust & Broadway in St Louis. The accident left his right hand and foot crippled. He requested a pension and was approved.
His first wife having died in 1888 he remarried a woman named Cora. It was the second marriage for both.
In one deposition he referred to himself as 'old crippled Buckeye'. At least his sense of humor was intact.
Enlisted Oct 20 1864 Co A 177th Ohio over his Father's objections and refused returning home. Mustered out 24 June 1865 returned to Newburgh.
Left for Chicago then St. Louis. Worked as an architectual iron worker was injured on the job at Locust & Broadway in St Louis. The accident left his right hand and foot crippled. He requested a pension and was approved.
His first wife having died in 1888 he remarried a woman named Cora. It was the second marriage for both.
In one deposition he referred to himself as 'old crippled Buckeye'. At least his sense of humor was intact.
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