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057    CANNADY, HARDY FAMILY

Location - on Bass Lake Rd about 2 miles from Hwy 24 and about 4 miles west of Clinton.

Coordinates: 34d 58m 24.0s N; 78d 23m 39.2s W Click here for Online Maps

Surveyed by Sue Cannady Barefoot in January 2010.

This Cemetery has a sign stating Hardy Cannady Family Cemetery on Bass Lake Road about 4 miles west of Clinton.

There are only 2 tombstone markers in this cemetery and they are: Hardy Cannady, Samuel A. Cannady and Jeanette Matilda Spell Cannady. The other graves have a small rock in the place of a marker. This cemetery is located off the road up a path and is not visible from Bass Lake Road.

The list of family members in this cemetery has been handed down for generations in the Cannady family.

NOTE: Association and circumstances of those buried here was written down by the late Clarice Cannady Owens who was one of the family members that helped move Hardy Cannady's marker to this site back in the 1950s or 1960s. She shared this information with Sue Cannady Barefoot back in 2003.

1. Cannady, Albert James   (b. 12 Jan 1916 - d. 7 Jan 1917)
Son of Matthew & Hepsie Spell Cannady
2. Cannady, Anna Branch   (b. - d. )
first Wife of Ammie Cannady - no maker
3. Cannady, Hardy   (b. abt 1819 - d. 23 June 1891)
Age 72 years old. (Tombstone only - marker moved from previous Cannady Family Cemetery in the Piney Green Community that was destroyed by farm animals. His tombstone was the only marker found after the destruction.)
4. Cannady, Hilda   (b. 1911 - d. 1911)
Daughter of Ammie and Anna Branch Cannady - a twin - no marker
5. Cannady, Jeanette Matilda Spell   (b. 1 Jul 1856 - d. 1 Oct 1928)
Wife of Samuel A. Cannady. (on same marker, one of only two in this cemetery)
6. Cannady, Johnny   (b. 3 Jun 1930 - d. 3 Jun 1930)
Son of Anson and Mildred Page Cannady. Remains moved to Elizabeth Baptist Church Cemetery, Fleet Cooper Road, Clinton, NC in 1986
7. Cannady, Mamie   (b. 1908 - d. 1911)
Daughter of Ammie and Anna Branch Cannady - no marker
8. Cannady, Naomi Elizabeth   (b. 22 Sep 1938 - d. 3 Oct 1938)
Daughter of Willie (Bill) and Elizabeth Batts Cannady
9. Cannady, Samuel A.   (b. 1 Aug 1859 - d. 7 Aug 1907)
Husband of Jeanette Matilda Spell Cannady. (on same marker, one of only two in this cemetery). Father of Matthew and Ammie Cannady. grandson of Hardy Cannady.
10. Cannady, Thelma C.   (b. 18 Dec 1922 - d. 5 Jan 1924)
Daughter of Matthew and Hepsie Spell Cannady
11. Cannady, Wilda   (b. 1911 - d. 1911)
Daughter of Ammie and Anna Branch Cannady - a twin - no marker
12. Wise, Jane   (b. - d. )
2nd Wife of John Wise and stepmother to Fannie Wise Cannady 2nd Wife of Ammie Cannady
13. Wise, John   (b. - d. 5 Aug 1928)
father of Fannie Wise Cannady 2nd Wife of Ammie Cannady.