time, almost certainly wrote the article about the confrontation between himself and Lippman. On September 5, 1886, Cannon was released from the Presiding Bishopric and excommunicated from the church after he confessed in public at the traditional Sunday meeting in the Salt Lake Tabernacle that he and Louie Wells had committed adultery. He was excommunicated from the pulpit by his uncle, Salt Lake Stake President Angus M. Cannon. Because Louie Wells was pregnant by Cannon, George Q. Cannon instructed Cannon's wife Annie Wells Cannon to divorce so that he could marry Louie Wells. After the divorce, Cannon and Louie Wells were married by his brother, Abraham H. Cannon. However, after Cannon and Wells were married, he was criminally charged with the crimes of polygamy and unlawful cohabitation, largely based on the earlier rumors that had been promoted by Lippman's article. Cannon and Wells acknowledged that prior to their marriage they had considered plural marriage, but had decided against it. After being humiliated in a preliminary hearing in which she had to testify, Louie Wells went to San Francisco to live with her half-sister and brother-in-law, Belle Whitney and Septimus Sears. There, Wells delivered a stillborn baby boy and died a month later from complications of the childbirth. Her mother, Emmeline Wells, was broken-hearted. Cannon later remarried Annie Wells and they had nine more children. He was readmitted into the church by baptism on May 6, 1888; however, he never regained his position as a general authority of the church. In the early 1890s, Cannon and Louie Wells were sealed in the Manti Temple in a posthumous, vicarious ordinance, with Annie Wells standing in for her sister. Military service During the Spanish–American War, Cannon served as the lieutenant colonel (i.e., second-in-command) of the 2nd United States Volunteer Cavalry. Cannon was a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution. Death Cannon died of myocarditis in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. Notes External links Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: John Q. Cannon John Q. Cannon collection, MSS 2348 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University 1857 births 1931 deaths American general authorities (LDS Church) American newspaper editors American people of Manx descent Burials at Salt Lake City Cemetery Cannon family Counselors in the Presiding Bishopric (LDS Church) Deseret News people Infectious disease deaths in