McCanna family

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[[13 Jun 1899]] on way back from gold fields with son Jim, Michael dies of Bright's Disease after a few years of affliction (abt 55). His daughter, Lizzie, went up on the Topeka RR from Skagway to Lake Bennett, met James there, and helped him bury their father.
 
[[13 Jun 1899]] on way back from gold fields with son Jim, Michael dies of Bright's Disease after a few years of affliction (abt 55). His daughter, Lizzie, went up on the Topeka RR from Skagway to Lake Bennett, met James there, and helped him bury their father.
  
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[[File:McCanna_Katherine Ann_Emmet_Elizabeth_Philip_Jim.jpg|Katherine Ann, Emmet, Elizabeth, Philip, Jim]]
 
After her son's wife, Alma Gribble, died in 1909, she helped care for Philip's children, Hugh Hiliary and Philip. They lived with her son Hiliary at Eagle River, north of Juneau. Then between 1917-1923 she moved to Goldendale. There she took care of the two boys and their sister, Frances, until Philip remarried in 1925. When her daughter Elizabeth died in 1930, Katherine Ann took care of her brother-in-law, Robert Willis, in Goldendale. Katherine died in 1939. She was living at the time with Philip's daughter, Frances, and her husband, William Ruff. She had moved down to live with them after Katherine Margaret Willis, the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Willis, her granddaughter, had finished college in Seattle.
 
After her son's wife, Alma Gribble, died in 1909, she helped care for Philip's children, Hugh Hiliary and Philip. They lived with her son Hiliary at Eagle River, north of Juneau. Then between 1917-1923 she moved to Goldendale. There she took care of the two boys and their sister, Frances, until Philip remarried in 1925. When her daughter Elizabeth died in 1930, Katherine Ann took care of her brother-in-law, Robert Willis, in Goldendale. Katherine died in 1939. She was living at the time with Philip's daughter, Frances, and her husband, William Ruff. She had moved down to live with them after Katherine Margaret Willis, the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Willis, her granddaughter, had finished college in Seattle.
  

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