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Grover Leonard ("Coach") Cannaday¹

Parents

• Grover Leonard ("Coach") Cannaday was born on 2 October 1916.^2,1
• Grover was enumerated in the household of his parents on the 1930 Census in Precinct 1, Franklin County, Texas, United States. Enumerated in this household were:
  1. Cannaday, Grover, age 37, works as a general farmer on his own account.
  2. -----, Mary E., wife, age 35.
  3. -----, Grover L., son, age 13, attends school.
  4. -----, Charles E., son, age 10.
  5. -----, J. C., son, age 3 years and 2 months.³
• He and Jerry ("Nell") Downing were married about July 1942.⁴
• About March 1988, Grover resided in Mount Vernon, Franklin County, Texas, United States.²
• He died on 10 April 1988, at age 71, in Mount Vernon, Franklin County, Texas, United States.²
• He was buried estimated 13 April 1988 in Purley Baptist Church, Purley, Franklin County, Texas, United States.¹

• Last Edited: 21 June 2019

Citations

1. [S339] Find A Grave, digital images, accessed 29 May 2019, Grover Leonard "Coach" Cannaday, 5445399.
2. [S18] Social Security Administration, "Social Security Death Index," database, entry for G. L. Cannaday, 1988, SS no. 458-14-9773, accessed 17 May 2014
3. [S334] Texas, Franklin County, 1930 U.S. census, Ancestry.com, Digital images, 1. Cannaday, Grover, head, lives on a farm, age 37, was first married at 21, reads, writes, and speaks English, born in Texas, father was born in Texas, mother was born in North Carolina, works as a general farmer on his own account, currently employed, not a veteran, farm schedule #41.
   2. -----, Mary E., wife, age 35, was first married at 19, reads, writes, and speaks English, born in Texas, father was born in Arkansas, mother was born in Texas.
   3. -----, Grover L., son, age 13, attends school, reads, writes, and speaks English, born in Texas.
   4. -----, Charles E., son, age 10, attends school, reads, writes, and speaks English, born in Texas.
   5. -----, J. C., son, age 3 years and 2 months, born in Texas., T626, roll 2410, Precinct #1, enumeration district (ED) 80-2, sheet 2B, dwelling 41, family 42, Grover Cannaday Household, accessed 31 Mar 2004
4. [S292] Social Security Administration, "U.S., Social Security Applications & Claims Index, 1936-2007," database, entry for Jerry Nelldowning Kitts, 1937, SS no. 463-05-6473, accessed 18 Apr 2017