History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
677.

JACKSON GORDON was born in Shelby County, Ky., Feb. 6, 1821.  His
father, William Gordon, born in Henrico County, Va., Feb. 26, 1793, was
in the war of 1812; came to Shelby County, Ky., in 1813 or 1814.  He was
a wagon-maker by trade.  He married Elizabeth S. Miller, born March 2,
1786, and had a family of five children; four lived to be men and
women.  Jackson was the oldest son and third child.  He was but ten
years old when, in the spring of 1830, his parents came to Daviess
County and settled on the same farm where Jackson now resides.  His
father died Jan. 27, 1852, and his mother, Feb. 9, 1865.  Mr. Gordon
married Elizabeth Haynes, March 21, 1844.  She was born in Ohio County,
Ky., March 19, 1826, and was a daughter of Charles E. and Anna (McGuire)
Haynes.  After his marriage he settled on his present farm in Masonville
Precinct.  They had a family of four children--Charles W., born April
27, 1845, married Generva Jasper, March 7, 1866; James M., born May 20,
1846, married Margaret J. Reynolds, June 5, 1873; Cynthia F., born Sept.
8, 1847, died Oct. 23, 1852, and Samuel P., born May 8, 1849, married
Nancy E. McKinney, March 20, 1878.  Mrs. Gordon died March 13, 1850. 
Mr. Gordon married Sarah A. Taylor, Jan. 16, 1851.  She was a native of
Daviess County, born Feb. 13, 1829, and was a daughter of William and
Susan (Miller) Taylor.  They had a family of five children.  Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon had a family of ten children, seven living--Thomas A., born
Jan. 13, 1852, is a physician in Maud, Mo., and married Cora C. Maddux;
Susie E., born Sept. 4, 1853, married Charles Mobberly, Nov. 17, 1875;
Melissa, born May 10, 1855, died same day of her birth; Henry T., born
July 7, 1856, died Jan. 28, 1858; Mary E., born Aug. 6, 1858, is the
wife of James Noel, married March 10, 1880; Artelia, born April 1, 1860;
Hetta J., born April 1, 1862; Callie, born Oct. 24, 1863; Myron, born
March 16, 1866, and Sallie, born March 27, 1868, died Jan. 16, 1869. 
Mrs. Gordon died Nov. 11, 1878.  Mr. Gordon then married Mrs. Eliza A.
Conyers, sister of his second wife.  She had first married William H.
Conyers, a native of Oldham County, Ky., born March 20, 1835, and died
April 4, 1876.  Mr. and Mrs. Conyers had one daughter, Sarah E., born
Oct. 23, 1858, now the wife of J. I. Goodman, married Nov. 16, 1882. 
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon are both members of the Baptist church.  Mr. Gordon
owns a fine farm of 243 acres, 150 under cultivation.  Politically he is
a Democrat.

Gordon Miller Haynes McGuire Jasper Reynolds McKinney Taylor Maddux
Mobberly Noel Conyers Goodman
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Shelby-KY Henrico-VA Ohio-KY MO Oldham-KY

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