Beckham County, OK - Obits: Mattie R. Cannon, 1909
09 Nov 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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CANNON, MATTIE R.
(26 Aug 1909, Erick Altruist, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
The death angel visited the home of our esteemed fellow townsman, Judge J.
F. Cannon last Thursday at 6 p.m., and deprived him of his beloved wife,
also Iris infant daughter was by this sad death made motherless.  The
death of Mrs. Cannon came as a dreadful shock, for although she had been
suffering from an attack of fever for about 3 weeks, she was apparently
convalescent shortly before the end came and the immediate cause of her
death was heart failure.
Mrs. Mattie R. Rowell, nee Mattie R. Cannon, was born in Tennessee, was
married to John F. Cannon in 1896.  Mr. and Mrs. Cannon moved to Erick in
1903, where they have since lived, occupying an important place in the
affections of the people here.  Mrs. Cannon was in the full bloom of
matured womanhood.  Her home instincts were strong, her affection for
kindred and friends was tender and abiding.  Among all she ranked as a
woman of culture and refinement, sympathetic, a kind neighbor, a devoted
wife and mother, an unselfish friend and withal a woman of heroic mould,
bravely meeting the stern requirements and disappointments of life and
generously sharing her portion of its joys to the end that a recollection
of her pure life will serve as a sweet benediction.  During all her life,
until about three weeks before her demise, she was denied the joy of
motherhood and the sublimity of that brief period of maternity was marred
by the pain and anguish of disease, which all that medical skill and
devoted, caring nursing could not alleviate.  Early in life she accepted
the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior and affiliated with the Baptist
church.  Later in life she withdrew from that denomination and joined the
Christian church of which she was a consistent member when her heavenly
Father called her to Himself.
To him who mourns man's greatest loss, we say, she has gone from your
sight, but because of the love and influence of a life like hers, she is
yours still; she is still the mother of your precious darling daughter.
The immortal Longfellow said, "There is no death, what seems so is
transition," and may she not by this transition wield over you a stronger
force for truth and goodness than before.
Mrs. Cannon is survived by her husband and little daughter, her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rowel, of Gould, Okla., three sisters, Mrs. Steel of
Lynnville, Tenn., Mrs. May Rushing of Newlin, Texas, Mrs. Nannie Stevens,
Leonard, Texas; two brothers, Woodson and James Rowel, of Gould, Texas
(sic); a half brother, Jeff McClaren of Texas, and a half sister, Mrs.
Sallie Rowel, of Hollis, Okla., besides numerous other relatives more
distantly akin.
Impressive funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Elder H. E.
Stubbs, at the Christian church Friday afternoon Aug. 20, and a large
concourse of sorrowing friends followed her remains to the cemetery where
interment was made.

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