HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by William H. 
Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern Historical 
Press, Easley, SC, 1979.
Page 766
W. E. McCANN, deceased, was born in Fayette County, Ky., and though he had 
no advantages in his boyhood and youth, he was known at the time of his 
death as on of the most successful as well as most honorable business men 
of the whole wide region in which he lived, and in which he was a trader 
and farmer.
His first business venture was as a dealer in stock, which he bought and 
sold with such good judgment as to add very considerably to the slender 
means with which he had embarked on the sea of commercial life.
The same sagacity was evinced in all his subsequent dealings, while his 
honesty of principle earned the implicit trust of all who knew him, and 
his goodness of heart won him friends on every hand.
He was exceedingly temperate in his habits, being an opponent of the 
drinking usages of society.
A diligent and devoted Bible student, remarkable for personal piety, he 
was an esteemed member of the Baptist Church , with which body he held 
religious fellowship.
He never allowed any trail to disturb his Christian equanimity and 
implicit trust in Him who doeth all things well.
He lost much by the late civil war, and was called upon to pay some $45,000 
of bail bonds entered into for others.
But he never lost his cheerfulness of mind under any reverse; neither allowed 
prosperity to overcome his humility.
Such equality of temper permitted him to make the best of any situation, 
and concentrate his faculties upon the task of intelligently arranging the 
vast mass of business concerns in which he was interested.
When he died, December 27, 1869, at the age of about sixty-two years, he 
was possessed of 1,300 acres of land.
His prosperity was entirely due to his own exertions, and his happiness to 
his consistent Christian life and character.
He had often been urged to become a candidate for public office but always 
refused, preferring business activity and the pleasures of the domestic 
circle.
He was married June 23, 1858, to Betty, daughter of James and Sallie 
(Edmonson) Anderson, both parents bearing name closely linked with the 
great exertions and glorious exploits of Fayette's fighting men early in 
the century.
Mrs. McCann still lives a few miles from Lexington.
She has three sons and two daughters: John, William E., James A., Sallie 
and Lydia.
McCann Edmonson Anderson
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