Louise (Louie) Martha Wells Cannon

August 27, 1862–May 16, 1887

1 Born at Salt Lake City; daughter of Emmeline Blanche Woodward and Daniel H. Wells. 2 Sang in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. 3 Appointed secretary to Anstis Elmina S. Taylor in the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association general presidency, 1880. 4 Married John Quayle Cannon, 1886. 5 Died at San Francisco; buried at Salt Lake City. 6 (See Document 4.4)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Augusta B. Joyce Crocheron, “Louise M. Wells,” in Representative Women of Deseret a Book of Biographical Sketches to Accompany the Picture Bearing the Same Title (Salt Lake City: J. C. Graham and Co., 1884), 127. “In Memoriam: A Tribute of Love,” Woman’s Exponent 16, no. 1 (June 1, 1887): 4. “Louie Wells Cannon Dead: Startling News Received from San Francisco Yesterday,” Salt Lake Herald, May 17, 1887, 8.
  2. [2] “In Memoriam,” 4. Carol Cornwall Madsen, An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870–1920 (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2006), 20.
  3. [3] “In Memoriam,” 4. Crocheron, “Louise M. Wells,” 129.
  4. [4] “Salt Lake Stake Relief Society Conference,” Woman’s Exponent 9, no. 3 (July 1, 1880): 21–22. Crocheron, “Louise M. Wells,” 129.
  5. [5] “In Memoriam,” 4. Kenneth L. Cannon II, “Wives and Other Women: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 43, no. 4 (Winter 2012): 76–79.
  6. [6] “In Memoriam,” 4. “Louie Wells Cannon Dead,” 8. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Jan. 2015), memorial no. 47644844, Louisa [ sic ] Martha “Louie” Wells Cannon; Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 7, 2016), Louisa Martha Wells LVLN-YHF .