James Gordon and Charlotte Smiley

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Husband James Gordon ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 23 May 1813 - Venango Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Aug 1888
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: John Gordon (      -1847) 1 5
         Mother: Rebecca Cooper (      -1819) 6

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       Marriage: 3 Nov 1836 2 3

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Wife Charlotte Smiley ^{2 3}

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           Born: 13 Feb 1817 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 12 Sep 1888 3 7
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: Thomas "Uncle Tom" Smiley (Bef 1799-Abt 1824) 3 8 9 10 11
         Mother: Mary Duffield (1783/1784-1830) 3 8 9 10

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - James Gordon

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He was educated in log cabin schools, the first two houses where he sought for infor­mation had no floors. The first work he did for himself was to put in a crop for a neighbor. In December, 1834, he began in the woods to clear up a farm. His father gave him a piece of land, unimproved, and there was his beginning. He and his wife settled at their marriage in a cabin on a farm, and went through the hardships that go to make up the life of a pioneer. He was engaged in the mercantile business at New Lebanon with his brother and James Muse for about three years. He was also engaged in a steam mill with the same parties. He also dealt in oil for a period. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon had no children by their marriage, but they have reared the following persons: Mary A. Jewell, who married D. C. Montague; Nancy L., daughter of R. C. Gordon, she married Isaac Suydam, of Glendora, Colo., and Joseph A., married Emma Smiley, lived in Nebraska. During the time of the war Mr. Gordon raised flax, which sold at large figures. He hired girls to pull and spread it and men to skutch it. For many years after his marriage he and his wife made their own clothing. He united with the Presbyterian Church at the age of twenty and his wife at the age of seven­teen years. He was a Republican, and one of the respected citizens of Sandy Lake. [HMC 1888, 1057]

They had no children of their own - who lived to maturity; but it appears that an infant or infants born to them are buried in Mill Creek Cemetery.

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General Notes: Wife - Charlotte Smiley

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Another source gives her date of death as 12 Sep 1848.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1057.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 483.

3 —, The Duffield Family; A Sketch of William Duffield, of Venango County, PA, and His Descendents (PA: The William Duffield Association, 1905), Pg 23.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 6, Frenchcreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1998), Pg 20.

5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 612.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 962.

7 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1058.

8 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 198.

9 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1010.

10 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 483, 758.

11 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 131.