He died at Westmoreland in West Tenn. on his way to the California gold fields.
[photo of chimney] Mch. 16, 1962. All that is left after more than a hundred years. The old Cannon home burned in 1960.
As a Confederate soldier he was captured at Fort Donelson and discharged from Federal Camp Douglas.
Did not marry.
See section C 4
[photos on page 139]
Jan. 11, 1947. William Jackson Weakley and his grandson, James Arthur Cunningham at the place where William said his grandfather, Joshua was buried.
Jan. 11, 1947. William Jackson Weakley (1864-1951) of Palmyra, at the Joshua Weakley's spring.