The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-27

sons, Arfnstend Churchill GofdOn now
a leading lawyer Of Staunton. VA. and
noted as n poet and author and Hon..
James r. Gordon. Of Now York. the:
gifted orator. Al III
9TH. Charles III, twin brother OF George.
married. first. Miss Benle. from whom
ono son, Professor James 3. Gordon.
OF Arkansas University. who died therei
second wife was Miss I3osw we'll, no Issue.
9TH. John Churchill. married Mary s..
rcgrnm. daughter Of Edwin s. Pcgram,
ESQ.,. OF Albcnarle. by whom six sons and
three daughters. DR.. John G. Gordon Is
now ono or the leading physicians Of
Charlottesville, WI.
nth. Alexander farewell married his
cousin, Miss Gordon. They had one son
and four daughters. "A u & 81 ii
9Th. Mason. married Miss Hart, Of
North Carolina. they have three sons and
two daughters. The eldest daughter mar
ried Thomas y. Rosser, lJr.. son OF C',n-
eral Thomas L. Rosser, OF the Confed-
crate army, now residing near University
aYlrglnn.
Dth Marin Gordon. s
10th Hannah Gordon. married the late
Judge William J. Robertson, who rose
oithe bench Of the Supreme Court Of
Virginia and also practlced in the United
States Supreme Court at Washington.
They had nine children. Of whom Maria
Gordon Robertson and Mamie Morris
Robertson are dead. IS #
General Gordon died In 1855 while his
widow survived him stwenty-clght years,
dying mt the residenc, OF her youngest
SON. s, Mason Gordon, Of Charlottesville,
Va, In 1856. being nlnety-five years Of
age. and retaining her faculties to the
last. it
The youngcrt son. Mason Gordon. is like
his father, talented as a speaker and now
a leading lawyer at the Charlottesville
bar. IT. was particularly at Christmas
times that one could always SEQ at Edge
worth, the old Gordon homestead, those
real old Virginia Christmas merry
markings SO often read about, but
fnew 50 seldom scent for with
gthe Generals eight sons, ana fthe
nine sons OF his neighhor. Or Mann
& Page, with other surrounding young folks
Of the ncighborhood thrown In, the house
would be pretty full: and then tho General
would ,nbend himself from his uusterity
and become boy again, cracking his
jokes, and telling amusing anecdotes
which would keep the older visitors as
well as the Juveniles In a roar OF larghter.l
We give the coat Of arms as furnished by
one OF the family. which tallies worry
closely with those of the English
branches, s II
Being: "Arms azure three boars heads.
erased, or Crest, a stag S head, ppr..
Motto, 'Bydand. - 5t$i
There was during the eighteenth cen
5lury. ans Alexander Gordon, who came
over andSsettled In l7s5.y near Carter's
Bridge AlEemarle, He5 claimed to be afde-
sccndant Of Elrg Alexander Gordon, OF
Huntly. England. He died 1905. leaving one
son Alexander Duff Gordon, OF whom little
further is known. tseeyvond's HistoryfOf
Albemarle). There were also many Nrg.
lish Gordons. who came over and settled
In the New England States One, Patrick
Gordon. born In Ireland, 1914 was made
Governor of Pennsylvania in 1925, and
published two Indian treaties: he died in
Philadelphia 1886 There were also many
( OF the name who settled IN Massachusetts,
some OF whom were eminent as preach
ers. as we'll as lawyers.
In our next will be given something fur
#tler concerning the ancestry Of Reuben
Lindsay and his sturdy Scotch descen-
dants. who are still to be remembered by
people of this generation.