Amador ledger., 1906-07-20
A Pioneer Lady Passes Away.

Mrs Elizabeth Gordon. widow of
Judge M. w. Gordon, died at her
residence on Saturday last at the
ripe age of IS ears and three months.
Long prior to her demise she had
been almost helpless from the ravages
of time in sapping the foundations of
life. She died at the Gordon home,
near the Zeila mine, where she had
lived continuously for over so years,
and which for number of years past
was also the home of her son, Geo. A.
Gordon and family, who faithfully
attended to the deceased in her de-
cIining days.
Mrs Gordon was born in st Cath
crimes, Canada, March 30, 1918. Her
maiden name was Elizabeth Hannah
Cutler, eldest child of Jacob and
Catherine Cutler. When an infant her
parents moved to the United States,
first to Kentucky, where in 1885 the
Subject of this sketch was married to
Isaac N. Frisbee, and to them five
children we're born, four boys and
one girl. She was left widow at the
age of 26 years. In 1852 she started
from Missouri with her parents and
her own five children, in an OK team
for California, arriving safely in this
state the same year, and settled in
Benecia, at that time the capital of
the state.
Here she engaged IN the hotel bust
ness. M. W. Gordon was elected to
the legislature. which met IN 1858,
and while attending the session
stopped at the hotel kept by Mrs
Frisbee. He was elected as member
from Calaveras county. which at that
time included most of the territory
now comprising Amador, and on the
special issue of getting bill through
creating the county of Amador. In
this he was successful. The acquain-
tance which thus casually sprang up
ripened into an attachment, and they
we're married. in Benecia in 1854, and
thereafter they moved to jackson,
then designated by popular vote as
the county seat of the newly created
county. 1t was the second marriage
for both contracting parties, one
daughter of Judge Gordon by his first
wife survives, who is now Mrs j. b.
Stevens. Judge Gordon died IL years
ago. The subject of this sketch
occupied the deweIIing in which she
breathed her last for 81 years. She
leaves three children. Marion W.
Gordon, S. p. agent at lone. and Geo.
A. Gordon, school superintendent of
Amador county, and Mrs Coombs, nee
Frisbee, by her first husband.
Besides the children above named
she leaves nineteen grandchildren.
and ten great grandchildren; also two
brothers, Milton Cutler of jackson,
Wis, John Cutler of Ukiah, and one
sister, Mrs julia Patterson, of Lex
ington, KY.
Deceased was a devoted and con-
sistent christian, and took an active
part IN religious and philanthropic
work until the burden of years com
PEELED her to rest from her labors.
For tifty-two years she was a mem ber
of the Methodist church of jackson,
the oldest member of the local
church. She was identified with the
church from girlhood days.
The remains we're laid to rest by
the side of those of her life partner
of by-gone years in the Protestant
cemetery, the Rev. g. E. Winning
officiating. The following we're the
pail bearers: V. 5. Garbarini, A. L.
Stewart, III. A. Clark, Geo. W. Brown,
M. S. Matson and b. M. Kelly, all
sons of old pioneers. Pioneers,
native SONS and daughters turned out
to do honor to one whose more than
half century of life had been spent in
their midst, and whose christian
character and kindly nature will.
long be remembered by all who knew
her.