Rufus Cannon |
| Posted 2009-09-02 by Sharon |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ May 19, 1944 Rufus Cannon Dies After Long Illness The death last Saturday noon of Rufus Cannon, at his home in Congress, took from this community one of it best known, well-liked and pioneer residents. Mr. Cannon had been ill for a long time. He lost his voice about a year ago and his health had failed steadily. Born in Iowa Hill, California, on November 27, 1868, Mr. Cannon came to Arizona when a lad of 18, starting in the cattle business on a ranch along the Santa Maria River. He ran as many as 300 head of white faced cattle on the ranch, which he named TVT. Despite a lameness which resulted from infantile paralysis when he was a baby, he was a skilled horseman and roper and never permitted his affliction to handicap him in any way in the operation of his ranch. Mr. Cannon told many interesting stories of his early day experiences in this region, but the one which impressed him the most, and which he never forgot, was in connection with the Walnut Grove flood on Washington's Birthday in 1894. In that tragic catastrophe of early Arizona, Mr. Cannon personally recovered bodies of 14 men, women and children from the raging waters of the Hassayampa, which, after 16 days and nights of steady rain, took out the earthen dam and carried to their death more than 200 people residing in the Walnut Grove and other settlements downstream. Funeral services for Mr. Cannon were held at the Wickenburg Chapel last Monday and he was laid to rest in the Wickenburg Cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Inez Cannon, a sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Cannon, Congress, and two sisters and a brother in California. See Also: Find A Grave |
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