Cambria County PA Archives Obituaries.....Canan, Moses  September 29, 1863
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1860-1898: October 21, 1863
Died Tuesday evening, September 29th, 1863, at his home near Johnstown, Pa. Moses
Canan, aged 79 years, 6 months and 28 days. The deceased was born on the 1st of
March, 1784, in Huntingdon County, Pa. At the age of twelve, he entered a Latin
School in the town of Huntingdon; and at the age of sixteen, he entered Dickenson
College, Carlisle, then under the presidency of Dr. Nesbit. After remaining four
years at Carlisle, he entered the law office of Judge Rawle, of Philadelphia, where
he remained three years. In 1807 he was admitted to the Bar, and on the 8th day of
September of the same year he was united in marriage to Mary Henderson, daughter of
Wm. and Margaret Henderson, of Huntingdon, Pa. He had a strong love of military
life, and at the breaking out of the war of 1812, he raised a company of Volunteers
in Alexandria, Pa., and entered the service of his country, and spent his time
during the war along what was then, called the Niagara Frontier. In 1818, in the
month of May, he moved to Cambria County, and was subsequently elected Major of a
battalion of Volunteers. He was among the earliest settlers and first lawyers in the
county. In 1837 he moved to Johnstown, where he has since resided. In 1838 he united
with the Presbyterian church, then under the care of Rev. S. H. Terry, and was soon
after elected and ordained elder, in which capacity he served until the time of his
death. His wife, Mary Canan, died December, 1833, aged forty-nine years; and on the
6th of January, 1845, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Rudesill, daughter of
Frederick and Catharine Sharretts, who still survives him…

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