Sibling of:
Edwin Gordon, FindAGrave Memorial #51282534
Elizabeth Gordon Foster, FindAGrave Memorial #51282501
The following biographical sketches are copied from the Murray Williamson & Phelps History of Adams Co.. In reading them, it must be borne in mind that this history was published in 1879, and that when the present tense is used therein, it refers to the year 1879 and not to 1921. I have taken the liberty in some cases of supplying explanatory or additional information, enclosing the same in parentheses - [Ralph Waldo Crain]
George Gordon, of Section 2, Northeast Township, P.O. Augusta. Born in York Co., Pennsylvania, September 16, 1804. Was married in New Orleans to Louisa Molan Rutan (of French descent) who was born in 1817, and died April 29, 1862. The children were Elizabeth S. (married E. L. "Ned" Cannon), Thomas J. (married Euphemia Campbell), Sarah D. (married Dr. W. H. Lemmon), Mary Jane
(married Rev. I. M. Johnson) and Eliza S. (married Samuel Walker). Two children, John and Alice died in infancy. George Gordon moved from Pennsylvania to Maryland when six years of age, lived there sixteen years, thence went via Philadelphia to NY where he lived five years, thence to New Orleans, where he resided ten years, and from there came to this place in 1839. He built a shanty, put up posts in the ground, sided it and filled it with brick. He was a brick mason by trade, having served as apprentice for eleven years. Mr. Gordon took up raw prairie, broke it himself, and has made a fine farm and home; he has 150 acres, valued at $6,000. (His daughter, Mrs. E. L. Cannon, or "Libby," as her hosts of friends call her, told me that as a little girl she remembers watching her father toil patiently away building their brick residence in about 1852 or 1854. He himself had made and burned the brick on the hillside just north of the house. This was the first brick house in this neighborhood. Philip Cain later acquired this place, and it is now owned by his son, Clarence, who, in the summer of 1920 tore down the old house, but left the original brick cellar and foundation wall, and upon them erected his new home.)
Source: Augusta's Story, Martha Board Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (Augusta, Illinois: Augusta Eagle, 1922), 152.
Edwin Gordon, FindAGrave Memorial #51282534
Elizabeth Gordon Foster, FindAGrave Memorial #51282501
The following biographical sketches are copied from the Murray Williamson & Phelps History of Adams Co.. In reading them, it must be borne in mind that this history was published in 1879, and that when the present tense is used therein, it refers to the year 1879 and not to 1921. I have taken the liberty in some cases of supplying explanatory or additional information, enclosing the same in parentheses - [Ralph Waldo Crain]
George Gordon, of Section 2, Northeast Township, P.O. Augusta. Born in York Co., Pennsylvania, September 16, 1804. Was married in New Orleans to Louisa Molan Rutan (of French descent) who was born in 1817, and died April 29, 1862. The children were Elizabeth S. (married E. L. "Ned" Cannon), Thomas J. (married Euphemia Campbell), Sarah D. (married Dr. W. H. Lemmon), Mary Jane
(married Rev. I. M. Johnson) and Eliza S. (married Samuel Walker). Two children, John and Alice died in infancy. George Gordon moved from Pennsylvania to Maryland when six years of age, lived there sixteen years, thence went via Philadelphia to NY where he lived five years, thence to New Orleans, where he resided ten years, and from there came to this place in 1839. He built a shanty, put up posts in the ground, sided it and filled it with brick. He was a brick mason by trade, having served as apprentice for eleven years. Mr. Gordon took up raw prairie, broke it himself, and has made a fine farm and home; he has 150 acres, valued at $6,000. (His daughter, Mrs. E. L. Cannon, or "Libby," as her hosts of friends call her, told me that as a little girl she remembers watching her father toil patiently away building their brick residence in about 1852 or 1854. He himself had made and burned the brick on the hillside just north of the house. This was the first brick house in this neighborhood. Philip Cain later acquired this place, and it is now owned by his son, Clarence, who, in the summer of 1920 tore down the old house, but left the original brick cellar and foundation wall, and upon them erected his new home.)
Source: Augusta's Story, Martha Board Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (Augusta, Illinois: Augusta Eagle, 1922), 152.
Sibling of:
Edwin Gordon, FindAGrave Memorial #51282534
Elizabeth Gordon Foster, FindAGrave Memorial #51282501
The following biographical sketches are copied from the Murray Williamson & Phelps History of Adams Co.. In reading them, it must be borne in mind that this history was published in 1879, and that when the present tense is used therein, it refers to the year 1879 and not to 1921. I have taken the liberty in some cases of supplying explanatory or additional information, enclosing the same in parentheses - [Ralph Waldo Crain]
George Gordon, of Section 2, Northeast Township, P.O. Augusta. Born in York Co., Pennsylvania, September 16, 1804. Was married in New Orleans to Louisa Molan Rutan (of French descent) who was born in 1817, and died April 29, 1862. The children were Elizabeth S. (married E. L. "Ned" Cannon), Thomas J. (married Euphemia Campbell), Sarah D. (married Dr. W. H. Lemmon), Mary Jane
(married Rev. I. M. Johnson) and Eliza S. (married Samuel Walker). Two children, John and Alice died in infancy. George Gordon moved from Pennsylvania to Maryland when six years of age, lived there sixteen years, thence went via Philadelphia to NY where he lived five years, thence to New Orleans, where he resided ten years, and from there came to this place in 1839. He built a shanty, put up posts in the ground, sided it and filled it with brick. He was a brick mason by trade, having served as apprentice for eleven years. Mr. Gordon took up raw prairie, broke it himself, and has made a fine farm and home; he has 150 acres, valued at $6,000. (His daughter, Mrs. E. L. Cannon, or "Libby," as her hosts of friends call her, told me that as a little girl she remembers watching her father toil patiently away building their brick residence in about 1852 or 1854. He himself had made and burned the brick on the hillside just north of the house. This was the first brick house in this neighborhood. Philip Cain later acquired this place, and it is now owned by his son, Clarence, who, in the summer of 1920 tore down the old house, but left the original brick cellar and foundation wall, and upon them erected his new home.)
Source: Augusta's Story, Martha Board Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (Augusta, Illinois: Augusta Eagle, 1922), 152.
Edwin Gordon, FindAGrave Memorial #51282534
Elizabeth Gordon Foster, FindAGrave Memorial #51282501
The following biographical sketches are copied from the Murray Williamson & Phelps History of Adams Co.. In reading them, it must be borne in mind that this history was published in 1879, and that when the present tense is used therein, it refers to the year 1879 and not to 1921. I have taken the liberty in some cases of supplying explanatory or additional information, enclosing the same in parentheses - [Ralph Waldo Crain]
George Gordon, of Section 2, Northeast Township, P.O. Augusta. Born in York Co., Pennsylvania, September 16, 1804. Was married in New Orleans to Louisa Molan Rutan (of French descent) who was born in 1817, and died April 29, 1862. The children were Elizabeth S. (married E. L. "Ned" Cannon), Thomas J. (married Euphemia Campbell), Sarah D. (married Dr. W. H. Lemmon), Mary Jane
(married Rev. I. M. Johnson) and Eliza S. (married Samuel Walker). Two children, John and Alice died in infancy. George Gordon moved from Pennsylvania to Maryland when six years of age, lived there sixteen years, thence went via Philadelphia to NY where he lived five years, thence to New Orleans, where he resided ten years, and from there came to this place in 1839. He built a shanty, put up posts in the ground, sided it and filled it with brick. He was a brick mason by trade, having served as apprentice for eleven years. Mr. Gordon took up raw prairie, broke it himself, and has made a fine farm and home; he has 150 acres, valued at $6,000. (His daughter, Mrs. E. L. Cannon, or "Libby," as her hosts of friends call her, told me that as a little girl she remembers watching her father toil patiently away building their brick residence in about 1852 or 1854. He himself had made and burned the brick on the hillside just north of the house. This was the first brick house in this neighborhood. Philip Cain later acquired this place, and it is now owned by his son, Clarence, who, in the summer of 1920 tore down the old house, but left the original brick cellar and foundation wall, and upon them erected his new home.)
Source: Augusta's Story, Martha Board Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (Augusta, Illinois: Augusta Eagle, 1922), 152.
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