My father was Thomas Cannon, and my mother Mary Scott.

They were both Scotch-Irish and descended from the Scotch Reformers.

On my mother's side were several men and women who signed the "Solemn League and Covenant," and defended it to the loss of livings, lauds and life.

Her mother, Jane Grey, was of that family which was allied to royalty, and gave to England her nine day's queen.
This grandmother I remember as a stately old lady, quaintly and plainly dressed, reading a large Bible or answering questions by quotations from its pages.

She was unsuspicious as an infant, always doubtful about "actual transgressions" of any, while believing in the total depravity of all.