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     Elmer F. Gookins was born on 1 July 1917 at Zanesville, Muskingum Co., OH. He was the son of Carl Gookins and Lelia Leona Owens. Elmer F. Gookins died on 13 July 1983 at Zanesville, Muskingum Co., OH, at age 66.

     Pauline Isabelle Gookins was born on 28 October 1911 at Ohio. She was the daughter of Carl Gookins and Lelia Leona Owens. Pauline Isabelle Gookins married Raymond George Dingey. Pauline Isabelle Gookins died on 14 March 1997 at Ohio at age 85.

     Ruth Eleanor Gookins married Virgil Donalson. Ruth Eleanor Gookins was born on 23 December 1919 at Zanesville, Muskingum Co., OH. She was the daughter of Carl Gookins and Lelia Leona Owens. Ruth Eleanor Gookins died on 25 November 1994 at New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas Co., OH, at age 74.

     John William Goolsby was born on 30 November 1906 at Bay City, Matagorda Co., TX. He married Annie Edith Everett, daughter of Carl Stover Everett and Annie Smith, on 28 April 1934 at Denver, Arapahoe Co., CO. John William Goolsby lived on 2 April 1940 at 625 East First Avenue, Denver, Denver Co., CO, locomotive fireman, steam railroad.¹ He died on 12 April 1958 at Jefferson, Marengo Co., AL, at age 51. He was buried in April 1958 at Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson Co., CO, Findagrave #67510670.

     Belle Goon was born in January 1877. She was the daughter of Elias Goon and Jane (?) Belle Goon married Henry Ulysses G. Huppert, son of Jacob Huppert and Susan Templin, on 26 February 1896.

     Elias Goon married Jane (?).

     Beulah Mae Goosby was born on 15 June 1906 at Lincoln Co., TN. She married John Wesley Stewman on 24 December 1924 at Lincoln Co., TN. Beulah Mae Goosby died on 20 July 2003 at Columbia, Maury Co., TN, at age 97. She was buried in July 2003 at Polk Memorial Gardens, Columbia, Maury Co., TN, Findagrave #159425475.

     Alice Cary Gordon was born in 1878. She married Francis Marion Thompson, son of David McGowan Thompson and Eliza Jane Wyscarver, on 24 November 1904.

     Ardilla Gordon was born on 1 April 1867 at Jefferson Twp., Fayette Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Eli Gordon and Sarah Jane Smith.¹ Ardilla Gordon died on 24 March 1891 at Fayette Co., OH, at age 23.¹

     Arthur Gordon was born circa 1858 at Ohio. He was the son of John A. Gordon and Clarissa Shepherd.

     Carol Jean Gordon was born on 24 April 1927 at Oklahoma Co., OK. She was the daughter of Ernest Harrison Gordon and Alberta Josephine Nesbitt. Carol Jean Gordon married Bill Joe England on 17 March 1950 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co., OK. Carol Jean Gordon died on 23 January 2010 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co., OK, at age 82

Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

Our precious wife, mother and grandmother, Carol Jean England, passed away on January 23, 2010. Born in Oklahoma City, April 24, 1927, she graduated summa cum laude from Capitol Hill High School in 1945. Carol married Bill England in 1950, who was her lifelong sweetheart. She worked at Mutual Federal S&L, retiring in 1992. Her parents brought her to Wilmont Place Baptist Church as a baby, and ,after making a profession of faith, she was a member there until her death. She held many positions of leadership at Wilmont, one of her favorites being Cradle Roll. Loving reading, she joined the church library staff and became its leader for over 40 years. In 1998, seeing the need for young people to memorize scripture, she started Bible Drill. Carol loved giving gifts. She received great joy by giving away handmade items to family and friends.

Carol is preceded in death by her parents, Ernest and Alberta Gordon; sister-in-law, Reba Gordon; daughter-in-law, Deanna England and grandson, Jay Trusley.

Survivors include her husband of almost 60 years, Bill England; daughters: Tricia and Mark Meacham; Cindy and Greg Dean; Jana and Max Burgess; Marsha and Larry Brooks; son, Charles England; nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and her brother, Malcolm Gordon. She was greatly loved, and we miss her. Viewing will be 4-8 PM today. Services will be 10 AM, Wed., Jan. 27, 2010, at Wilmont Place Baptist Church, 6440 S. Santa Fe. Please visit www.vondelsmithmortuary.com to sign guestbook & leave condolences for the family.

Published in The Oklahoman on January 26, 2010.

She was buried in January 2010 at Heritage Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Cleveland Co., OK, Findagrave #53774535.

     Charles H. Gordon lived at Dublin, Franklin Co., OH. He married Clarissa C. Vandenburgh. Charles H. Gordon was born on 6 December 1817 at Perry Co., OH. He died on 21 September 1851 at age 33.

     Clara C. Gordon was also known as "Caroline".¹ She was born circa 1848 at Ohio.¹ She was the daughter of Charles H. Gordon and Clarissa C. Vandenburgh. Clara C. Gordon married John A. Windle, son of Abraham Wendel and Mary Ann Brubeck, in 1868, Franklin County, Ohio, Marriage Records, Vol.10, page 389. Clara C. Gordon died before March 1895 at Kansas or Nebraska (probably) Clara was not in family as of the 1895 census of Brown County, Kansas.

     Cornelia Gordon was born on 19 September 1845.¹ She was the daughter of Jeremiah Gordon and Susan Snively. Cornelia Gordon married John Price, son of John Price and Catherine Bear, at Shady Grove, Franklin Co., PA, Ceremony by Rev. Whiteman.¹

     Dora May Gordon was born on 4 October 1865 at Greene Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Eli Gordon and Sarah Jane Smith. Dora May Gordon married Charles M. Williams. Dora May Gordon married William W. Wood circa 1901, Dora showed three children born, two living as of the 1910 census. Since sons Orville Williams and Cleaphus Woods were in the household, the third and deceased child was daughter Lavada.² Dora May Gordon died on 20 September 1945 at Jamestown, Greene Co., OH, at age 79.

     Eli Gordon was born in August 1833 at Bethel Twp., Clark Co., OH.^1,2 He was the son of John Gordon Sr. and Mary Waggoner.³ Eli Gordon married Sarah Jane Smith, daughter of Milan Lewis Smith and Mahala Armstrong, on 22 December 1864 at Fayette Co., OH. Eli Gordon died on 6 January 1916 at Jefferson Twp., Fayette Co., OH, at age 82.

     Ernest Harrison Gordon was born on 17 June 1897 at Cawker City, Mitchell Co., KS. He was the son of John A. Gordon and Clarissa Shepherd. Ernest Harrison Gordon married Alberta Josephine Nesbitt, daughter of Homer Eugene Nesbitt and Clara Belle Taylor, on 23 April 1924 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co., OK. Ernest Harrison Gordon died on 16 February 1967 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co., OK, at age 69. He was buried in February 1967 at Sunny Lane Cemetery, Del City, Oklahoma Co., OK.

     Etta Jane Gordon was born on 29 May 1886 at Rowley, Buchanan Co., IA. She was the daughter of George W. Gordon and Margaret Alice Messingham. Etta Jane Gordon married Wilbur Ellsworth Tallman, son of Wilbur Ellsworth Tallman and Mary Delilah Merritt, on 17 February 1909. Etta Jane Gordon died on 19 June 1918 at Anamosa, Jones Co., IA, at age 32

Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

SOURCE: MONTICELLO EXPRESS...PAGE 4....JUNE 27, 1918
OLIN, June 26

The funeral of Mrs. Etta Gordon Tallman was held at the United Brethren church, last Friday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. C. Dillavan, and interment was made in the Olin cemetery. Mrs. Tallman was only 32 years of age. She is survived by her husband, Ellsworth Tallman, and two little boys. She is also survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Gordon, a sister, Mrs. Adah Rorah, and a brother, John Gordon.

She was buried in June 1918 at Olin Cemetery, Olin, Jones Co., IA, Findagrave #54551664.

     Eva M. Gordon was born in July 1882 at Michigan.¹ She was the daughter of Silas Gordon and Emma Frances Clement.¹ Eva M. Gordon married James L. Gere, son of John Franklin Gere and Louise Virginia Blue, on 31 August 1899, Four children born, all living as of the 1910 census.²

     George W. Gordon married Margaret Alice Messingham.

     Hazel Gordon was born in May 1895 at Mitchell Co. (probably), KS. She was the daughter of John A. Gordon and Clarissa Shepherd.

     Hugh Gordon was born circa 1857 at Ohio. He was the son of John A. Gordon and Clarissa Shepherd.

     Occupation: Publisher. Hugh C. Gordon was Presbyterian. He was Waynesboro, Franklin Co., PA. He was born on 9 December 1873.¹ He was the son of James S. Gordon and Jennie M. (?) Hugh C. Gordon married Myrtle Price, daughter of Abram Emmert Price and Elizabeth Stover, on 26 April 1897.¹

     Hugh Price Gordon was born on 1 March 1900.¹ He was the son of Hugh C. Gordon and Myrtle Price. Hugh Price Gordon died in July 1965 at age 65.²

     Ida B. Gordon was born on 22 December 1876 at Jefferson Twp., Fayette Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Eli Gordon and Sarah Jane Smith.¹ Ida B. Gordon married Henry C. Lawson. Ida B. Gordon lived in January 1920 at Harmony Twp., Clark Co., OH. She died in 1932.

     James S. Gordon married Jennie M. (?).

     Note: Information on William Starling and Jane Gordon from "A Genealogy and Family Memorial" by Joseph Sullivant, p. 29: Her father (no first name given) was a Doctor. The author feels he was a Doctor of Divinity and not a physician as some noted. They were of Clan Gordon and claimed relationship with Earls of Gordon. The author thinks father was an Episcopal clergyman. A Major Gordon, British officer who fell at Quebec with Gen. Wolfe, was a cousin of Jane's. Jane's family settled in King William Co., VA some time before 1740. They appear to have come from Scotland as first reference to father is "a Scottish physican". Jane and William Starling had 3 children, William, Roderic and Sally. Both William and Jane died young. William only 26 and Jane died only 3 years later. The children became under the care and guardianship of Colonel William Lyne. Young William married Susanna Lyne, daughter of their guardian. This did not please the Colonel and he moved to Boydtown, Mecklenburg Co., VA where they lived for many years. He served as Sheriff of the County.

Jane Gordon was born circa 1730 at King and Queen Co., VA. She was the daughter of Dr. Roderick Gordon. Jane Gordon married William Starling, son of William Roderic Starling and Sarah Hubbard, circa 1755 at Virginia. Jane Gordon died circa 1763 at King William Co., VA.

     Jeremiah Gordon married Susan Snively.

     John A. Gordon was born in May 1831 at New York. He married Clarissa Shepherd circa 1854. John A. Gordon lived in 1880 at Breckenridge Twp., Caldwell Co., MO.

     John Gordon Sr. was born on 15 February 1802 at Botetourt Co., VA.¹ He married Mary Waggoner on 1 April 1824 at Springfield, Clark Co., OH. John Gordon Sr. died on 15 February 1880 at Ross Twp., Greene Co., OH, at age 78

Biographical information -- (Findagrave.com):

Son of Charles Richard and Anna (Garst) Gordon. Married Mary "Polly" Waggoner on 1 Apr 1824 in Clark County, OH. Father of Richard b. 1825, Sampson b. 6 Feb 1829, George W. b. abt 1832, Eli b. abt 1835, John b. abt 1837, Mary A. b. abt 1839, Deborah b. abt 1841, Anna b. abt 1843, James B. b. 1845 and William b. 1847.

Excerpts from the memoirs of John Gordon (1802-1880), eldest son of Charles Richard, written in 1863:

:Charles Richard Gorden or Gordon had 17 children: John, James, William, Andrew, Lettie, Giles, Anna, Eliza, Mary, Richard, Catherine, George Washington, Maza, Sarah, David, Frederick, and Deliliah. The spelling "Gordin" began in this generation.

My father, Richard Gordon, was born in Buckingham County, Virginia Dec. 12, 1774, two years before the Declaration of Independence was declared. His father, Giles Gordon, was in the Revolutionary War. He was in one of the hardest fought battles in Virginia about the close of that war. I have heard my grandmother say she stood in her yard and heard the cannon firing while her husband was in the battle and that when he came home he said he could have walked over the space of a ten acre field on dead men's bodies without touching ground.

I was born on the 15th day of February 1802 some two miles from Salem on Harrison Creek. My mother was sixteen years and six months old at the time of my birth.

In the fall of 1805 my father moved to Highland County, Ohio. They moved in a two horse wagon. We came through Abington in the extreme south western part of Virginia, through eastern Tennessee and Kentucky and crossed the Ohio River where Maysville now stands.

The vicinity was a "law unto itself." A man that would disturb the peace at a gathering of any kind, was taken by four men, each taking an arm or leg, and bumped against a tree a certain number of times and then compelled to leave the community. I saw two men served thus myself. They were James and John Findley, who afterward became very noted personages in the state, especially James B., who was long known as a minister of the gospel, and was also, at one time, chaplain of the Ohio Penitentiary, and author of a book entitled "The Prison Life."
My mother was an economical and hard working woman and as hardy as a "pine knot," and father was very thrifty, and considerable of a horse jockey--made considerable by horse trading.

In the fall of 1817 we had a hewn log house up, 21 by 26 feet, two story high, with one door, one window, and two loose floors, and a small stove in it that cost $50--a midling cold looking place by the way, on a cold winter. For three years we had a very hard time, sometimes very scanty provisions and clothing, though we did not suffer so much as some older settlers."

On October 7, 1816, they again started for Ohio-- such was the pioneer spirit! They came to the home of an aunt and uncle of Anna, Mary (Garst) and Christian Frantz, and later bought a farm on which they lived the rest of their lives. The back part of the farm joined the Frantz farm, located four miles from Springfield, OH.

He was buried in February 1880 at Grape Grove Cemetery, Jamestown, Greene Co., OH, Findagrave #5856085.