Grayson County, TX - Canon Family Cemetery (on land maps written Cannon)
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Submitted by Susan Hawkins    hawkins@texoma.net


This Cemetery is completely distroyed today belonged to the Samuel F.Canon Family.
It was located about 500 ft. NW of the corner of
Jack England Rd. and County Line Road (on the Grayson-Fannin Co.
line) South of Whitewright. It was at the top of a small rise, which 
you can still see as of Spring of 1999. A cement company has purchased 
the land and it may not be visible in the future. Right now it is a 
plowed field due north of Jack Englands house (soon to be moved.)

The Cemetery was witnessed by many early residents. It had a metal fence 
around it as late as WWII when it was taken down for the war effort. 
All of the graves where known to be of or related to the Canon family who 
lived there till they sold to the T.L.Cowart family.It has been owned by several 
people. There was a concensus that there were about 12 stones, mostly infants. 
All the stones were standing when the fence was removed. shortly they started to 
be caught and pushed over by farm machinery as the field was plowed. Lost one by one.
An eye witness to it , now deceased, told me of the last two stones that were
there. He and his son had been hired to plow the field and clear those last
two stones. It was a mother and infant surname Canon. The stones to the cemetery were 
used as fill on road work on hwy 160 west of there.

                                           Susan Hawkins