Obituary of George Shannon, Esquire from the "Western Weekly Review" Franklin, Tennessee, Friday, May 20, 1836
"Departed this life on Sunday morning, the 15th, at his residence in this county, after a painful illness of 20 days, of billious fever, GEORGE SHANNON Esq., in the 67th year of his age. The subject of this notice was born in Virginia on the 12th May 1770, he removed with his father to this state when a boy. He distinguished himself amongst that hardy, enterprising and gallant race of men, who defended our mothers from the Tomahawk and scalping knife, and has been a citizen of this county for the last 37 years. He lived respected and died regretted by all who knew him. He sustained his suffering with christian fortitude and resignation, and possessed a calm serenity of mind which manifested his reliance on the kind mediation of his Saviour. He was an exemplary member of the Baptist Church for 16 years past. Oh then let his deeply afflicted children and weeping relations and friends, derive consolation from the knowledge of his purity, for a spirit like his can only have exchanged a life of uncertain happiness and bliss eternal."
Taken from the book Historic Williamson County Old Homes and Sites by Virginia Bowman submitted by LindaMooreMora
He and his family settled in Cumberland settlement in 1784
In 1797 he married Mary McKnight and built his log house early in 1800 on the present Nolensville Road.
George and Mary were the parents of five children Rebecca, James, Robert McKnight, Samuel and Thomas G. Of these Rebecca inherited the homeplace at her fathers death. She had given her life for caring for her parents but on Feb 2, 1836 three months before George Shannon died, she married William Waldron. In June 1837 she gave birth to a daughter Mary, ten days later at the age of thirty nine Rebecca Waldron died and was followed in two weeks by her infant. The property was then owned by James Shannon and his family
"Departed this life on Sunday morning, the 15th, at his residence in this county, after a painful illness of 20 days, of billious fever, GEORGE SHANNON Esq., in the 67th year of his age. The subject of this notice was born in Virginia on the 12th May 1770, he removed with his father to this state when a boy. He distinguished himself amongst that hardy, enterprising and gallant race of men, who defended our mothers from the Tomahawk and scalping knife, and has been a citizen of this county for the last 37 years. He lived respected and died regretted by all who knew him. He sustained his suffering with christian fortitude and resignation, and possessed a calm serenity of mind which manifested his reliance on the kind mediation of his Saviour. He was an exemplary member of the Baptist Church for 16 years past. Oh then let his deeply afflicted children and weeping relations and friends, derive consolation from the knowledge of his purity, for a spirit like his can only have exchanged a life of uncertain happiness and bliss eternal."
Taken from the book Historic Williamson County Old Homes and Sites by Virginia Bowman submitted by LindaMooreMora
He and his family settled in Cumberland settlement in 1784
In 1797 he married Mary McKnight and built his log house early in 1800 on the present Nolensville Road.
George and Mary were the parents of five children Rebecca, James, Robert McKnight, Samuel and Thomas G. Of these Rebecca inherited the homeplace at her fathers death. She had given her life for caring for her parents but on Feb 2, 1836 three months before George Shannon died, she married William Waldron. In June 1837 she gave birth to a daughter Mary, ten days later at the age of thirty nine Rebecca Waldron died and was followed in two weeks by her infant. The property was then owned by James Shannon and his family
Obituary of George Shannon, Esquire from the "Western Weekly Review" Franklin, Tennessee, Friday, May 20, 1836
"Departed this life on Sunday morning, the 15th, at his residence in this county, after a painful illness of 20 days, of billious fever, GEORGE SHANNON Esq., in the 67th year of his age. The subject of this notice was born in Virginia on the 12th May 1770, he removed with his father to this state when a boy. He distinguished himself amongst that hardy, enterprising and gallant race of men, who defended our mothers from the Tomahawk and scalping knife, and has been a citizen of this county for the last 37 years. He lived respected and died regretted by all who knew him. He sustained his suffering with christian fortitude and resignation, and possessed a calm serenity of mind which manifested his reliance on the kind mediation of his Saviour. He was an exemplary member of the Baptist Church for 16 years past. Oh then let his deeply afflicted children and weeping relations and friends, derive consolation from the knowledge of his purity, for a spirit like his can only have exchanged a life of uncertain happiness and bliss eternal."
Taken from the book Historic Williamson County Old Homes and Sites by Virginia Bowman submitted by LindaMooreMora
He and his family settled in Cumberland settlement in 1784
In 1797 he married Mary McKnight and built his log house early in 1800 on the present Nolensville Road.
George and Mary were the parents of five children Rebecca, James, Robert McKnight, Samuel and Thomas G. Of these Rebecca inherited the homeplace at her fathers death. She had given her life for caring for her parents but on Feb 2, 1836 three months before George Shannon died, she married William Waldron. In June 1837 she gave birth to a daughter Mary, ten days later at the age of thirty nine Rebecca Waldron died and was followed in two weeks by her infant. The property was then owned by James Shannon and his family
"Departed this life on Sunday morning, the 15th, at his residence in this county, after a painful illness of 20 days, of billious fever, GEORGE SHANNON Esq., in the 67th year of his age. The subject of this notice was born in Virginia on the 12th May 1770, he removed with his father to this state when a boy. He distinguished himself amongst that hardy, enterprising and gallant race of men, who defended our mothers from the Tomahawk and scalping knife, and has been a citizen of this county for the last 37 years. He lived respected and died regretted by all who knew him. He sustained his suffering with christian fortitude and resignation, and possessed a calm serenity of mind which manifested his reliance on the kind mediation of his Saviour. He was an exemplary member of the Baptist Church for 16 years past. Oh then let his deeply afflicted children and weeping relations and friends, derive consolation from the knowledge of his purity, for a spirit like his can only have exchanged a life of uncertain happiness and bliss eternal."
Taken from the book Historic Williamson County Old Homes and Sites by Virginia Bowman submitted by LindaMooreMora
He and his family settled in Cumberland settlement in 1784
In 1797 he married Mary McKnight and built his log house early in 1800 on the present Nolensville Road.
George and Mary were the parents of five children Rebecca, James, Robert McKnight, Samuel and Thomas G. Of these Rebecca inherited the homeplace at her fathers death. She had given her life for caring for her parents but on Feb 2, 1836 three months before George Shannon died, she married William Waldron. In June 1837 she gave birth to a daughter Mary, ten days later at the age of thirty nine Rebecca Waldron died and was followed in two weeks by her infant. The property was then owned by James Shannon and his family
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