Gordon (Family : Kentucky)

John Gordon was a farmer in Georgia. He and his wife, Sarah, had ten children, among them Mary (who married John Goss), Eleanor (who married William A. Lewis), Thomas Boston, and Neal McDougal. Thomas began his legal practice in Owenville, Ky. in 1848. He fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War, and later ran schools in Pinchard Station, in Woodford County. He married Frances "Fannie" Greer, and they had three children, Angus Neal, John Gilbert, and Flora Jane. Neal McDougal Gordon served as pastor of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church in Nicholasville, Ky. for thirty years. He married, first, Martha Jane Harris, who died in 1845, then Catherine Smith, daughter of James and Elizabeth Black Smith. Their children were "Sis," "Mattie," Eliza, John, and Logan. Neal founded Gordon's School for Boys, which trained young men for the Presbyterian ministry. He was also very interested in the colonization of blacks in Liberia.