Funeral services were held at Helena Friday for Mrs. Julia Cannon, former resident of the Melville area, who passed away Tuesday of last week following a long illness.

Mrs. Cannon was born Nov. 14, 1878 at Silver City, N. M. At the age of 16 she moved with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Brannin, to Montana by wagon train, trailing their burrows, goats and horses. Mrs. Cannon was one of the drivers of a team of mules hitched to a spring wagon. It took a year to make the trip. Most of their goats and burrows were lost during a stormy Utah winter.

They settled at Empire, a mining town near Helena. There Mrs. Cannon was married to Jesse Cannon in 1898. They owned and operated a gold mine at Winston. Later they moved to Trout Creek in Stillwater county where they entered into partnership with Ed Brannin in a ranch that is now the Ray Flanagan place.

They moved to Melville in 1906 where Mr. Cannon ran a harness shop. A year later they were attracted by the mining boom in Nevada and moved to Goldfield. After a short stay there they went to Marysville, near Helena, where they lived until 1936 when they moved to Helena. Mr. Cannon passed away in 1941.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. David Julian, a grandson, Arthur Julian, and two great grandchildren, all of Helena; five brothers, Barney, Richard, Gus and Crawford all of Melville, and Sidney of Port Angeles, Wash.; two sisters, Mrs. Alice Tucker, Juneau, Alaska, and Mrs. Anita Ward of Melville.

Among the relatives attending the funeral services were Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Ward, Mrs. Dora Brannin, Robert Ward, Mrs. Ralph Cosgriff, Mr. and Mrs. James Brannin of Nye, Mrs. Clayton Lape of Ventura, Calif., Mrs. Riley Doore and Mrs. Katheryn Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif., Mrs. Albert Tucker, Juneau, Alaska, and Dick and Gus Brannin.

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picture:  Julia Brannin Cannon & Arthur Julian