Cannon Connolley, Isreal, Mahaffey Families of Lincoln County, OK

Osa Israel & George McBride (on porch)
Orrin & Nancy Israel with daughter Beulah
Harve & Maude Israel Cannon with sons George I. and Howard H.
Ernest, Ola & Joe Israel (on the porch)
Glenn (standing to his father's right)
David J. & Ethzelda Sipes Israel (father & mother)
Mafia (seated in front of her parents)
Edna and Charles Ashcroft with daughter
Zetta Chett & Clara Israel.

When the David Jackson Israel family moved from McPherson County, KS to Oklahoma Territory in the fall of 1899, the oldest son, Clay Noid left ahead of the remainder of his family and headed toward Kendrick, OK (Lincoln Co) with a wagon load of family possessions. He was alone and was murdered enroute. Neither his killer nor family possessions were ever found.

See above, a copy of one of the original Wanted Posters and a photo of Clay Noid Israel

Alexander (Alex) Connolly was married three times. Mary Turner died soon after giving birth to Elizabeth, wife number two was Jane Gokey and his third wife was Eliza Gokey. Alex's children numbers 3 thru 7 were with his third wife, Eliza, who herself had been married previously. Gokey was Eliza's married name and she had 2 children by that earlier marriage and those children were Lewis and Frank Gokey. Eliza Gokey was an Ottawa.

It is believed that Alex's second wife, Jane, may have died in KS., as did his first wife Mary Turner.

A large part of the Sac & Fox Tribe moved from KS to their new reservation in Indian Terriitory several years earlier than Alex. He was one of the hold-outs who did not want to be forced to move from their reservation in KS. Alex was one of the Tribal Interpreters and served briefly in the Tribes' police force. His Oklahoma home was located just across the highway east of the present day Sac & Fox Tribal Headquarters Building, about 10 miles south of Stroud.

Alex believed he had been born in 1847, on the Sac & Fox Reservation at Quenemo, KS. He died in Sept, 1936. His Indian name was Wah Wah To Saw. His parents were Thomas Jefferson Connolly and Kish ka swaw. After the death of Thomas Jefferson Connolly (in Kansas), Kish ka swaw remarried and came to Indian Territory with the original band of the Sac & Fox.

Elmer and Eliza Mahaffey
Wedding Photo 1-1-1900

Elmer Mahaffey and Eliza E. Connolly
Marriage Announcement

Barber, Elmer Mahaffey
Prague, OK.

Elmer Leroy Mahaffey
Obit - 1/17/1945

Gerald E. Mahaffey
Obit

My gramdmother, Elizabeth Connolly married Elmer L. Mahaffey on Jan 1, 1800 in the home of her father, Alex Connolly, south of Stroud. They lived briefly in Pawnee before moving to Prague where they spent remainder of their lives. The marriage resulted in the births of three children; Gerald, Rowena and Juanita. (By: George Cannon)

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Photo was taken in the Lincoln County Courthouse
	office in October, 1828 (see the calendar). My mother (Rowena Mahaffey Cannon) had been married two months and she appears to be pointing to her wedding ring.

JUANITA MAE MAHAFFEY
May 9, 1909 - October 22, 1987

Longtime outdoor writer and conservationist, Juanita Mahaffey, died October 22, 1987. In recent months she had been a resident at the Bethany Village Health Care Center.

Miss Mahaffey's long public relations career began in 1928 with the Oklahoma wildlife Conservation Department. In 1945 she was named publicity director and created the department's first information/education program. She started the Oklahoma Game & Fish News (now named Outdoor Oklahoma) in 1945 and was the editor until 1958.

In 1958 she left Oklahoma for Washington, DC. , where she worked as an editor/writer in the Federal Water Polution Control Program of the Environmental Protection Agency. She retired in 1971 and returned to Oklahoma City.

She was a member and deaconess at Oklahoma Clty's First Christian Church. She also belonged to Outdoor Writer Association, National Wildlife Federation, was an honorary life member of the American Association for Conservation
Information and was the first woman ever elected president of that group.

For eight years during the 1950s she wrote a weekly newspaper column about Oklahoma hunting, fishing and conservation. The column was published in many state newspapers and was by-lined "The Oldtimer."

Miss Mahaffey was born in Prague, Oklahoma in 1909. She is I survived by a neice, Lenita Keys, Los Angeles, CA. and a nephew, George E. Cannon of Oklahoma City.

Submitted by: George Cannon

Clement H. Cannon	1832-1912		Eliza Kenton Cannon
C. H. Cannon Biography			Eliza Kenton Cannon Obit

Harve and Maud (Israel) Cannon Wedding Photo - 2/8/1899		Harvey Miller Cannon Obit		Maude (Israel) Cannon Obit 1957
Cannon and Son Feed Store Harve Cannon

Clay Noid (Claynoid) Israel Birth: 27 Nov 1876 Death: 12 Oct 1899 Murdered in OK Terr.
*(click both photos to enlarge)*

		Rowena Grace Cannon Obit 8/25/1950
Rowena Mahaffey Cannon