Robert is the son of Alexander Gordon & Nancy Ragsdale
*Robert, according to family history, entered the Confederate States Army when he was 14 years old. He was a member of Col. McCroy's Regiment from 1863-1865. He was discharged Feb 15, 1865 in Cape Girardeau MO.
Mrs Cora Gordon-Campbell said it took Robert two years to return home to Center Ridge AR after his discharge. She also said Robert enlisted in the Confederate Army at Lewisburg AR in 1863. One day a neighbor rode up
and told Robert's father that Northern sympathizers were riding through the county killing all boys old enough to fight. That night Robert and one of his friends rode to Lewisburg and enlisted the next day. ~ Miranda Smith
Nancy Elizabeth Reed-Gordon
Grandma Gordon was very jolly and quite a talker. She sat in front of the fire in her rocker and talked. She knew everybody in the whole country, it seemed, and knew all about who married who, who was kin to who, dates of most happenings and everybody's kids! She was a fairly smooth talker - the words just flowed. She was the "story-teller" type. She would spoil the kids and was always on our side! Grandma Gordon was a heavy set woman and walked with a cane. She may have had bad knees. She always wore a long dress with her ankles barely showing. She sat in her rocking chair a lot and I remember that she made a lot of quilt tops. She made quilts for each of her granchildren to have when they married.
She, like Grandma Paxson, rotated staying with the families of her children. I don't know who she was living with when she died. ~ Robert Paxson Gordon
"After Nancy was widowed, she rotated staying with her children and their families. Robert Paxson Gordon has memories of his grandmother during the times she stayed with his family. "Grandma Gordon was very jolly and quite a talker. She sat in front of the fire in her rocker and talked. She knew everybody in the country, it seemed, also who was kin to whom. She was the story teller type, the words just flowed. I remember she made a lot of quilt tops. Grandma Gordon was a heavy set woman and walked with a cane. She may have had bad knees. She always wore a long dress, with her ankles barely showing. She would spoil the kids and was always on our side!" ~ Robert Paxson Gordon, 1992
"After I married into the family, my mother-in-law gave me two quilts, the tops of which had been made by Grandma Nancy Gordon, who had made quilt tops for all of her grandchildren. She had 46 grandchildren." ~ Peggy Gordon
"Nancy E. Gordon died at the home of her daughter, Lizzie Gordon-Powell in Tombuli, Lonoke Co AR. Grandma Gordon could never be idle. She was always making quilt tops. She made a quilt for each of her grandchildren.
Grandma Paxson (Matilda Agnes Kelley-Paxson) said to Grandma Gordon, "What do you want to sit there for, patching quilt tops - they'll never do you any good!" ~ Cuba King-Gordon, 1992 (wife of Joseph Leonard Gordon)
Joseph L. Gordon & Chloe Bell Paxson
*Joseph Lucian Gordon was a school teacher at Grandview and Center Ridge schools. For a short time the family lived in Cleburne county and he taught at Davis Special and Greer's Ferry. His son, Robert, remembers his father going by horseback on Sunday, staying Monday through Friday and coming home for the weekend. They farmed but always had a hired man and of course the manual labor of the children. He helped to build the Grandview Church and School, as did his father-in-law, Joseph Taylor Paxson. He was very active in the Church of Christ, teaching and leading singing. Leona Stripling Bradley, in The Valentine of 1899, her book of memories of her life in Conway county, wrote on page 6, "Chloe Paxson and Lucian Gordon went to church at Center Ridge. Some of us can remember when husbands and wives didn't sit together at church. The mothers sat on one side and took care of the little ones and Daddies sat on the other side. It was different with Chloe and Lucian
and it made a very deep impression on me as a young lady. I remember saying, "If I ever get married, how I hoped I'd get a man like that." ~ Peggy Gordon
*In the summer of 1931, the Gordon family moved to Lonoke county near other relatives. They loaded their belongings into a truck, in which the parents and three youngest children rode. The other children and belongings were placed in their wagon, which was pulled by mules. The cows were tied to the wagon and they made the long, 3 day journey down to Oldham, Lonoke county, camping out along the way. Arlie Clowers, Lucian's farm hand, moved with the family to assist in planting crops. The family later moved to Bain's Chapel. Lucian farmed full time at these locations. When they moved to the town of England, Lucian went into contract construction work. In 1939 they moved to Lonoke AR where Lucian worked as a case worker for a government social service agency. During WWII, he did carpentry work on a large defense plant in Pine Bluff. Lucian continued to work in his carpentry and cabinet shop in Lonoke until his death. Lucian and Chloe felt blessed that all five of their sons served their country in the Pacific and all returned alive and healthy. Chloe and Lucian enjoyed singing. It was always church songs and we would often have a singing whenever there was a family gathering. Lucian and Chloe had seven children. ~ Peggy Gordon
When Lucian Paxson Gordon & Opal Fae told Dad Gordon (Joseph Lucian Gordon) that they were moving to Beaver OK, he told them this story. Dad Gordon and his family lived in Indian Territory, near the McAlester area, around the turn of the century. He and a friend, as teenagers, hunted and dressed squirrels to sell to the miners. One time, the squirrels were scarce and they could not find any, so they killed some pack-rats, prepared them and sold them to the miners as squirrel! After they thought about what they had done, they were afraid to go back, even with squirrel. Later on, they saw one of the miners who asked why they hadn't been back. He really wanted some more of that squirrel, especially like the last kind! ~ Lucian Paxson Gordon, 1989
Cora & Ora Gordon
Daughters of William Robert Gordon & Laura Elizabeth Hill
Grand-daughters of Robert Bolin Gordon & Nancy E. Reed
Photo courtesy of Edna McKenzie
William Robert Gordon & Laura Elizabeth Hill ~ 1961
Photo taken by Peggy Gordon
Moses Allen Powell, Elizabeth Ann Gordon (daughter of Robert Bolen Gordon)
Child Standing: Reba Lodean Powell
Child Sitting: Rennie Lucille Powell
Photo taken about 1911/12
Photo provided by Edna McKenzie
Moses Allen Powell, Elizabeth Ann Gordon
Photo provided by Edna McKenzie
Moses Allen Powell & Elizabeth Ann Gordon
Photo taken just prior to Elizabeth's death in 1942
Photo provided by Edna McKenzie
Edgar Arma Powell, 1921-1998
Son of Moses Allen Powell & Elizabeth Ann Gordon
Grandson of Robert Bolen Gordon & Nancy Elizabeth Reed
"Edgar is my father. His middle name is always in dispute because he hated it so much. He changed his legal name to this when mother made him fearing that it would be a problem when he died.
I think it is Erma or some variation of that. He admitted to Arma and went by Edgar A. Powell for years. He was a policeman for 20 years and a deputy sheriff for a year." ~ Karen Powell. 1998
Robert Edgar Gordon, son of William Robert Gordon, grandson of Robert Bolen Gordon & Nancy Elizabeth Reed
"Robert was an enjoyable person and a great story teller. Everone called him Judge. He raised pecans and would sit on the street in town and sell pecans. What he was really doing
was listening to everyone's troubles and if they were selling their land he offered to buy it. He owned most of the river bottom around Plummerville. He had no children." ~ Peggy Gordon
George Robert Scoggins, husband of Mary Ann Gordon, daughter of Robert B. Gordon & Nancy E. Reed
George was a farmer and farmed several hundred acres of Arkansas river bottom land. He was responsible for bringing the Dutch Belted bull to Arkansas from Holland. He started the Dutch Belted bloodline in cattle for central Arkansas
He was a very hard working man and helped many people. ~ Frances Williams-Moore
Lonnie Houston Gordon
Geneva & Alva Gordon, wife & son of Lonnie Gordon
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