"Jas. H. Kanaan, who we stated a couple of weeks ago, was laying very low with typhoid fever, died last Saturday morning. Mr. Kanaan resided near Jollytown, West Va., the section of country which has been so terribly scourged for the last six mont[h]s with this fever. Mr. Kanaan was a good citizen and a christian, and leaves an old father and mother, besides a wife and children to mourn his loss."

SOURCE: James H. Kanaan death notice, Waynesburg Republican, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, 1 March 1871, page 3, column 4.

"DIED Kanaan -- Of typhoid fever, near Jollytown, on Saturday morning, Feb. 25, 1871, Mr. James H. Kanaan, aged 38 years."