When Margaret M Perdiew was born on 6 October 1862, in Robertson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Doctor Franklin Harris Perdue, was 24 and her mother, Armilda Gipson, was 38. She married William Herschel Gordon on 4 April 1886, in Campbellsburg, Brown Township, Washington, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Saltillo, Brown Township, Washington, Indiana, United States in 1900 and Lafayette, Wabash, Indiana, United States for about 20 years. She died on 13 March 1932, at the age of 69, and was buried in Campbellsburg, Brown Township, Washington, Indiana, United States.
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English: variant of Perdue .
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