From Montgomery News Messenger, March 3, 1943:

Peter L. Cannaday, 86, died at his home here Sunday 
night at 11:30 o'clock, following a lingering illness. 
Mr. Cannaday had been an invalid for the past 20 years. 
He was a native of Floyd but resided in Montgomery county 
for over twenty-five years.
Funeral services were conducted from the Park Methodist 
church yesterday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. Interment was 
in Sunset cemetery.

Mr. Cannaday was twice married. His first wife was the former 
Eliza Wilson and his second wife was the former Nannie Woolwine. 
Three daughters, Mrs. Viven Ingram, of Ferraun, Va., and 
Mrs. R.M. Thurman, of Wichita, Kansas, children of his first 
marriage, and one son, W.H. Cannaday, Christiansburg, child of 
his second marriage, are among the survivors. Twenty-three 
grandchildren and a number of great grandchildren also survive. 
He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Amanda Kelly, of Floyd, and 
Mrs. Rhina Howely of Salem, and two brothers, James, of Floyd, 
and Other Cannaday, of Roanoke. Besides his widows, he was 
preceded in death by two sons, Tom and Wilton Cannaday.

For many years, Mr. Cannaday had been a member of the Primitive 
Baptist church.