One of my uncles has pointed out that nearly every house his family rented had some connection to the Cannon family. Members of the Cannon family owned both Wyatt Hall and the house in West End. Later the Gentrys lived on Lewisburg Avenue and in a home that they referred to as the Lupton place. Mrs. Rolffs, the mother of Katherine Elizabeth Rolffs, Perkins Cannon's first wife, owned the house on Lewisburg Avenue; Mrs. Newton Cannon's sister owned the Lupton place.

In 1930 Perkins Cannon, 42, a grocery sales manager, was living on Nashville Road with his wife Susie M., 49, and children Alice, 12; Henry 12; and Jennie 10. Henry, who would later marry Sarah Ophelia Colley, better known as Minnie Pearl, was a business partner of one of my uncles for a time.

Henry Rolffs Cannon was born August 11, 1917, and died on November 7, 1997. Alice Cannon Patterson was born on August 11, 1917, and died on September 16, 2002. Jennie Cannon West was born on August 25, 1918, and died in May 1977.

In 1930 William B. Lupton, 69, lived on Murfreesboro Road with his wife, Ella M., a newspaper social editor, and her nephew Albert Taylor 29, the assistant manager at a limestone company.

Sources:

1930 United States Census for Williamson County, Tennessee, Enumeration District 94-14, Sheet 6.
1930 United States Census for Williamson County, Tennessee, Enumeration District 94-14, Sheet 10
Bobby Gentry.
Obituary of Alice Cannon Patterson, Nashville City Paper posted at http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com.
Social Security Death Index posted at www.rootsweb.com.

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