Rachel was the daughter of James Cannon and the mother of Col. William Daniel Leasure. She died shortly after her son was born. The exact location of her burial is unknown at this time but research continues and that information will be added if found. The burial information is being added as unknown in order to establish a historical trail for the family.
Rachel Cannon, a daughter of James Cannon, a farmer residing near the present site of Latrobe, and a brother of the Reverend John Cannon, a Convenanter minister, located at Greensburg and New Alexandria. A cousin of these was the father of the late Jane Grey Swisshelm, and Mrs. General Mitchell, of St. Paul Minn.
The following is an excerpt from the biography of Col Daniel Leasure published in the Lawrence Guardian, New Castle, Pennsylvania, Oct 8, 1886
In 1818 William Leasure married Rachel Cannon, a daughter of James Cannon, a farmer residing near the present site of Latrobe, and a brother of the Reverend John Cannon, a Convenanter minister, located at Greensburg and New Alexandria. A cousin of these was the father of the late Jane Grey Swisshelm, and Mrs. General Mitchell, of St. Paul Minn.
The nationality of the side of the Leasures is remotely Huguenot; his great-grandfather, Abraham Leasure, having emigrated to Pennsylvania from the borders of Switzerland, near France, whither the ancestors of the family had fled after the massacree of St. Bartholomew, they being Huguenots of Navarre.
The nationality of the side of the Cannon's was Scottish Covenanter, intermingled with Irish marriages in the vicinity of Londonderry, from where the Cannon's emigrated to Pennsylvania in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
A few weeks after the birth of General Daniel Leasure his mother died, and his paternal grandfather Captain Daniel Leasure, took him to his home, where he remained until the death of his grandfather in 1830.
Rachel Cannon, a daughter of James Cannon, a farmer residing near the present site of Latrobe, and a brother of the Reverend John Cannon, a Convenanter minister, located at Greensburg and New Alexandria. A cousin of these was the father of the late Jane Grey Swisshelm, and Mrs. General Mitchell, of St. Paul Minn.
The following is an excerpt from the biography of Col Daniel Leasure published in the Lawrence Guardian, New Castle, Pennsylvania, Oct 8, 1886
In 1818 William Leasure married Rachel Cannon, a daughter of James Cannon, a farmer residing near the present site of Latrobe, and a brother of the Reverend John Cannon, a Convenanter minister, located at Greensburg and New Alexandria. A cousin of these was the father of the late Jane Grey Swisshelm, and Mrs. General Mitchell, of St. Paul Minn.
The nationality of the side of the Leasures is remotely Huguenot; his great-grandfather, Abraham Leasure, having emigrated to Pennsylvania from the borders of Switzerland, near France, whither the ancestors of the family had fled after the massacree of St. Bartholomew, they being Huguenots of Navarre.
The nationality of the side of the Cannon's was Scottish Covenanter, intermingled with Irish marriages in the vicinity of Londonderry, from where the Cannon's emigrated to Pennsylvania in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
A few weeks after the birth of General Daniel Leasure his mother died, and his paternal grandfather Captain Daniel Leasure, took him to his home, where he remained until the death of his grandfather in 1830.
Rachel was the daughter of James Cannon and the mother of Col. William Daniel Leasure. She died shortly after her son was born. The exact location of her burial is unknown at this time but research continues and that information will be added if found. The burial information is being added as unknown in order to establish a historical trail for the family.
Rachel Cannon, a daughter of James Cannon, a farmer residing near the present site of Latrobe, and a brother of the Reverend John Cannon, a Convenanter minister, located at Greensburg and New Alexandria. A cousin of these was the father of the late Jane Grey Swisshelm, and Mrs. General Mitchell, of St. Paul Minn.
The following is an excerpt from the biography of Col Daniel Leasure published in the Lawrence Guardian, New Castle, Pennsylvania, Oct 8, 1886
In 1818 William Leasure married Rachel Cannon, a daughter of James Cannon, a farmer residing near the present site of Latrobe, and a brother of the Reverend John Cannon, a Convenanter minister, located at Greensburg and New Alexandria. A cousin of these was the father of the late Jane Grey Swisshelm, and Mrs. General Mitchell, of St. Paul Minn.
The nationality of the side of the Leasures is remotely Huguenot; his great-grandfather, Abraham Leasure, having emigrated to Pennsylvania from the borders of Switzerland, near France, whither the ancestors of the family had fled after the massacree of St. Bartholomew, they being Huguenots of Navarre.
The nationality of the side of the Cannon's was Scottish Covenanter, intermingled with Irish marriages in the vicinity of Londonderry, from where the Cannon's emigrated to Pennsylvania in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
A few weeks after the birth of General Daniel Leasure his mother died, and his paternal grandfather Captain Daniel Leasure, took him to his home, where he remained until the death of his grandfather in 1830.
Rachel Cannon, a daughter of James Cannon, a farmer residing near the present site of Latrobe, and a brother of the Reverend John Cannon, a Convenanter minister, located at Greensburg and New Alexandria. A cousin of these was the father of the late Jane Grey Swisshelm, and Mrs. General Mitchell, of St. Paul Minn.
The following is an excerpt from the biography of Col Daniel Leasure published in the Lawrence Guardian, New Castle, Pennsylvania, Oct 8, 1886
In 1818 William Leasure married Rachel Cannon, a daughter of James Cannon, a farmer residing near the present site of Latrobe, and a brother of the Reverend John Cannon, a Convenanter minister, located at Greensburg and New Alexandria. A cousin of these was the father of the late Jane Grey Swisshelm, and Mrs. General Mitchell, of St. Paul Minn.
The nationality of the side of the Leasures is remotely Huguenot; his great-grandfather, Abraham Leasure, having emigrated to Pennsylvania from the borders of Switzerland, near France, whither the ancestors of the family had fled after the massacree of St. Bartholomew, they being Huguenots of Navarre.
The nationality of the side of the Cannon's was Scottish Covenanter, intermingled with Irish marriages in the vicinity of Londonderry, from where the Cannon's emigrated to Pennsylvania in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
A few weeks after the birth of General Daniel Leasure his mother died, and his paternal grandfather Captain Daniel Leasure, took him to his home, where he remained until the death of his grandfather in 1830.
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