FOURTH GENERATION

296. Esther May Emry⁽¹²⁹⁾⁽⁴⁾ was born on 4 Jul 1896 in Knox Co., Nebraska. She died on 23 Apr 1960 in Concord, Contra Costa Co., California.⁽¹²⁸⁾⁽⁹⁾ She was buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery, Concord, Contra Costa Co., California.

She was married to Grant Cannady (son of George Washington Cannady and Maria Ellen Douglass) on 30 May 1916 in Kimball, Kimball Co., Nebraska. Grant Cannady⁽¹²⁹⁾⁽⁴⁾ was born on 23 Jun 1880 in Minden, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. Esther May Emry and Grant Cannady had the following children:

746 i. Edward Arthur Cannady⁽¹²⁹⁾ was born on 19 Mar 1915 in Ovid, Sedgwick Co., Colorado. He died on 24 Jun 1942 in Phillipines.⁽¹²⁹⁾ BIOGRAPHY: Edward Arthur Cannady died while a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II in the Phillipine Islands. He was buried in Golden Gate Cemetery, Bruno, California.⁽¹²⁹⁾ BIOGRAPHY: Grant Cannady, brother of John Q. A. Emry's second wife Jane May Cannady, was the father of Edward Arthur Cannady by Esther May Emry, who was his sister's daughter. John Q. A. Emry, after much agonizing, allowed the parents to marry. Edward Arthur Cannady never married.

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+747 ii. Wayne Garfield Cannady.
+748 iii. Norris Douglas Cannady.

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