Shannon Family History & Genealogy

John A Shannon was born in 1875. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John A Shannon.

Carol's parents were Conrad Arnholt Smith (1899-1996) and Lois Smith M. Seaver Smith ((1899-1981). She had 1 brother, Conrad Arnholt Smith Jr. In the 1940 census, the family was listed as living in San Deigo CA. Carol was in the 1st grade and in the household were Carrie Farley (maid), age 43, father Conrad, age 41, mother Lois, age 38, brother Conrad Jr, age 11, and Carol, age 6. Conrad Sr. was the vice president of a bank. Carol married Richard E. Hodgkins on Sept 24 1955. (She was 21 and he was 25) She then married Harry F. Shannon (1926-2003) on September 18 1959. (Carol was age 25 and Harry was age 33) There is also a record of Carol (age 38) having married Michael D. Cintas on April 24 1976. He was 28. She had 2 children. There are records of Carol having lived in Key West, Palm City, and Stuart Florida as well as Cathedral City, San Diego, and Rancho Santa Fe CA. From the San Diego Union Tribune Oct 17 2010: A family matter: My Oct. 15 item about the upcoming auction of Helen Alvarez Smith’s fine art collection has a postscript. Smith died earlier this year. Her former husband, fallen financier C. Arnholt Smith, once known as “Mr. San Diego,” was living in relative poverty with his daughter Carol Smith Shannon when he died in 1996. Now comes word that Shannon suffered a massive stroke this month and died at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. Penniless, she was living with an elderly Cathedral City woman and serving as her caretaker. Scroll down to read the long obituary of Carol's father, Conrad, from the LA Times. This family lead an extraordinary life.

Patricia A Shannon of Milford, New Haven County, CT was born on August 10, 1943, and died at age 65 years old on September 27, 2008.

Pamela F Shannon of Charleston, Kanawha County, WV was born on March 23, 1955, and died at age 43 years old on January 16, 1999.

She is the great granddaughter of Newet Vick the founder of Vicksburg Mississippi. She also donated a portrait of her father Dr. Harvey Shannon to the Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg, MS. And to top that off, there is a stained glass window dedicated in her memory in the hospital chapel at Emory University. That same chapel is named the James Shannon Warwick Chapel, he is her grandson, who attended Emory University, and died at a very young age.

Frances' partner was Jacob Alexander Nelson, and they had a child George Alexander Nelson. Frances' partner was Jacob Alexander Nelson, and they had children Elizabeth Brown Nelson, William Nelson, and Isabella Nelson. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Frances Colquhoun (Shannon) Nelson.

Jim Annie Bryant Shannon was born on March 21, 1883. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jim Annie Bryant Shannon.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gary Shannon.

Serena Lorraine Shannon of Ventura, California United States was born on May 22, 1980 to Gordon A Shannon and Neva Short. Serena shannon has siblings Gwen shannon and Sabastian Erick shannon- threadgill. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Serena Lorraine shannon.

Richard Shannon is the father of Mary (Shannon) Sweetman. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard Shannon.

Lucy Vick (Irwin) was born on March 24, 1838 to John Lawson Irwin and Lucy Watkins Vick. She married Harvey Alex Shannon on June 4, 1868, and had a child Alice Amanda Shannon. Lucy died at age 82 years old on November 20, 1920. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lucy Vick Irwin.

Neva Marcella (Short) Shannon of Ventura, California United States was born on February 12, 1924, and died at age 65 years old on February 15, 1989.

Hamp Shannon was born circa 1850 in Mississippi United States, and was the father of Lauvenia (Shannon) Williams. Hamp Shannon died at age 65 years old in 1915. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Hamp Shannon.

Andrew Shannon was born to Alice Petree and Wyant Stiverson, and has siblings Wyant W Stiverson and Gary Shannon. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Andrew Shannon.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Agnes Shannon.

Lauvenia (Shannon) Williams was born circa 1873 in Mississippi United States to Hamp Shannon. Lauvenia Williams was in a relationship with John Henry Williams, and has a child George M Williams Sr.. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lauvenia (Shannon) Williams.

Madeline (Travis) Shannon was born in 1927 in Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi United States. She was in a relationship with Frank Battee beginning 1940 in Yazoo City, Yazoo County, and had children Patsy Anne (Battee) Davidson and Robert Francis Shannon. Madeline Shannon died at age 89 years old in 2016 in Pinole, Contra Costa County, CA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Madeline (Travis) Shannon.

Debra S Shannon of TX was born circa 1958. Debra Shannon was married to Terrance L. Shannon on July 1, 1993 in Nueces County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Debra S. (Lassmann) Shannon.

Mildred Stella Shannon was married to Thruman Cromwell Thompson, and has children Geoffrey Malcolm Thompson and Ralph Herbert Thompson. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mildred Stella Shannon.

Dr. Shannon earned his medical degree from the University of Atlanta, and prior to the War Between the States practiced in Georgia, Holley Springs, MS, and Vicksburg, MS. He moved to Vicksburg in 1855 and continued practicing medicine except during the Civil War. At the outbreak of the war in 1861, Harvey assisted in the formation of an artillery company in Vicksburg known as Swett's Battery of the Warren Light Artillery. He was the senior first lieutenant, and after Captain Swett was assigned to staff duty, Harvey was promoted to captain and assigned command of the battery. With this unit, he saw action in April 1862 at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, at Corinth, Mississippi in May 1862, and in the Kentucky campaign later that year. His battery became part of the fabled Confederate Army of Tennessee and was involved in many struggles. Harvey was severely wounded in the Battle of Missionary in November 1863, by an iron ball from a twenty pound shell, which broke his collar bone passed down into his lung, and exited near his backbone below the shoulder. After several months of recovery, he returned to action and was wounded again in the Battle of Peachtree Creek during the Atlanta Campaign, when his arm was shattered. Harvey was repeatedly commended by his superior officers for his personal gallantry, and for the skill he demonstrated in deploying and fighting his battery. Harvey fought with the rebel Army until the final surrender of the Army of Tennessee led by General Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro, NC, 26 April 1865. He was the commanding officer of Swett's Artillery. Returning to Mississippi following the war, Harvey aided in the struggle against the corrupt "Carpetbag" government in Vicksburg. After the war he married Lucy Vick Irwin the granddaughter of Rev. Newet Vick, founder of Vicksburg, MS. Harvey had become known as an authority on the deadly yellow fever pestilence, and in 1883 as a representative of the state board of health, he was successful in preventing the spread of an outbreak of that dreaded disease. In 1897, during a yellow fever epidemic on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Marine Hospital Service in charge of its Detention and Clearing Camp at Fontainebleau, Mississippi. Dr. Shannon continued to practice until ill health forced his retirement. He then moved his wife, two daughters and two sons, to a country place he called Shannondale, near Ocean Springs, Miss. During school terms he took his family to Nashville, Tennessee in order that his children could attend excellent schools. (In those days Nashville was known as the Athens of the South because of its fine schools). A portrait of Dr. Shannon painted in 1840 by Thomas Heay of Port Gibson, together with one of his sisters-in-law, Alice Irvin, who died at a very young age, now hang in the Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg, together with other Shannon and Vick memorabilia. The portraits were donated by his daughter Alice Shannon Warwick, and presented by his son Irwin Vick Shannon, Sr. of New Orleans, and Anne Warwick Haynes, a granddaughter. Dr. Shannon died at the home of his daughter, Alice Shannon Warwick in Nashville, TN in 1906.