Cannon Cemetery, Whatcom County, Washington

Aka: Old Maple Falls Cemetery


Submitted by:Jim Cook
husband of Jody Lee Cannon
Hillsboro, Oregon

email: jcook980@comcast.net


Transcribed in September 2005

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We did locate the cemetery but could only visually 
verify four markers.  There are published cemetery 
transcripts that indicate several more are interred 
there but we could not find the markers due to heavy 
vegetation.  The cemetery was on part of Judge 
James H. Cannon’s farm and the surrounding Cannon 
property has since been subdivided into small, 
heavily wooded home sites.  It is obvious from the 
age of the trees that the area had been cleared when 
the Cannon’s were buried.  A driveway to one of the sites 
actually cuts through the cemetery. 

 
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Three polished stone markers are encircled by a wooden 
fence that we suspect was erected by members of the 
Cannon family:

 
*  James Henderson Cannon 	    *
*  02 March 1861 - 21 August 1934   *


(The birth date shown on a brass marker near his stone
marker indicates birth as 04 March 1860 but our family 
records indicate 02 March 1861.  Also, other published 
sources list his death date as 22 August 1934 but the 
same brass marker also indicates the correct date of 
death as 21 August 1934.  This date is also confirmed 
by published newspaper reports of his death.)

*  Carrie Elizabeth Tinker Cannon  	  *
*  27 August 1870 - 27 November 1942 	  *

*  Blossom Irene Cannon Knight Lindholm   *
*  22 March 1891 - 29 May 1946 		  *

 

We tried to move some of the vegetation inside the fence 
to expose other markers but discovered only what appeared 
to be two disintegrating concrete blocks we suspect were 
markers for two additional Cannon family members:
 

*  Oscar Allen Knight Jr.   *

(This person is not listed in the published transcripts 
nor can we positively identify a marker.  However, we are 
certain of his existance and tragic drowning death from 
family records and since there are no other cemetery records 
we have found for this person, we assume that he is buried 
with his mother, Blossom Irene Cannon Knight. )  

*  Female Knight infant 	*
*  6 March 1914 - 6 March 1914	*
 
Just outside of the fenced area is a large rough stone marker:

*  Thomas M. Hodges 		 *
*  3 June 1835 - 19 June 1908	 *


Published transcripts also indicate that the following are 
also interred in Old Maple Falls Cemetery but we could not 
find their markers:

*  Infant Briggs            *
*  d ca. 1905-1910	    *

*  Child Call		    *

*  Vera L. Laufman 	    *
*  25 May 1901 - 5 September 1906  *

*  William K. Laufman 	    *
*  d. 4 April 1909	    *

*  Ida Maude Wright Weatherby 	*
*  b 7 October 1900 Rock Island, Illinois - 21 June 1938  *

*  Earl Wright 		    *
*  d ca 1910 age 9 years.   *