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Margaret (Adams) Gordon (1853 - 1903) Lorenzo Madden Gordon (1853 - 1915) Margaret Adams was born in May 1853 in St. Clair Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Solomon and Ann (Shrader) Adams. Margaret grew up on a farm in St. Clair Township, the eighth of eleven children. She and her older sister Kate were the only girls.
Lorenzo Madden Gordon was born on October 30, 1853 in Napier Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, the son of Jeremiah and Jane (Smith) Gordon. He was the youngest of ten children.
Margaret and Lorenzo were married around 1870. They were both about 17 years old.
Margaret and Lorenzo were the parents of eleven children, ten of whom survived to adulthood. Their names were: Elmer Ellsworth Gordon, Clarence M. Gordon, Adamine B. "Addie" (Gordon) Makin, Essington Clay Gordon, Anna J. Gordon, Agnes Maude (Gordon) Reed, Jeremiah Solomon Gordon, Minnie A. (Gordon) Park, Nellie C. (Gordon) Ambrose, James W. Gordon, and Daniel B. Gordon.
In 1880 they resided on a farm in Ryot (also known as Oak Shade or Six Roads) in West St. Clair Township near Margaret's parents. Lorenzo was a farmer and a shoemaker.
In the late 1880s the Gordons moved to Johnstown, Cambria County. In 1892 their 18-year-old daughter Addie gave birth to a boy out of wedlock, named Harold McMullen, and the following year she married Joseph Makin.
On February 1, 1893 their youngest child, Daniel, died at the age of 3.
It is thought that the Gordons moved back to Ryot after Daniel died.
About 1896 Margaret and Lorenzo and most of their chldren moved to Streetsboro, Portage County, Ohio. It is thought that Lorenzo was a dairy farmer there.
On October 13, 1903 Margaret died in Streetsboro. She was 50 years old, and the cause of death was congestion of the brain. She is buried in Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown, PA, beside her son Daniel.
Four years later, Lorenzo remarried to a woman named Evelyn. In 1910 they ran a lodging house in Ravenna Township, Portage County, Ohio. In the 1910 US census, Lorenzo appears twice. He is also listed with daughter Maude Reed and her family in Streetsboro, Portage County, Pa.
Lorenzo committed suicide on May 15, 1915 by drinking carbolic acid. He was 61. He is buried with Margaret in Grandview Cemetery.
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