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1847–1868

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Birth Date
3 October 1807
Death Date
5 June 1876
Gender
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John Gordon

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  • The Gordon family sailed to the United States in 1859 on the ship William Tapscott.

Joseph Horne Company (1861)

  • Age at Departure: 53
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Isabella Jessie Gordon (Age: 35)
  • Jane Gordon (Age: 20)
  • Margaret Gordon (Age: 17)
  • Jessie Bissett Gordon (Age: 13)
  • John Bisset Gordon (Age: 9)
  • Catherine Davidson Gordon (Age: 5)
  • Helen M. Gordon (Age: 1)

Sources

  • Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: From the Edge of the Great Basin Frontier (Tooele, UT: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc., 2012).
  • "Died," Deseret News , [Weelky] 14 June 1876, 307.
  • Gordon, John, Autobiographical sketch, Tooele Stake, High Priest Quorum Genealogical Records, early-1925, reel 7018, 7, in Record of Members Collection 1836-1970.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund Ledger Index, [1992, 2013].
  • Richardson, Frank Donald, John Gordon biography in Richardson family biographies [ca 1980], fd 7, p. 10-13.
  • Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America