Brief Life History of Edgar Tony
When Edgar Tony Gordon was born on 20 April 1881, in Pinnacle, Stokes, North Carolina, United States, his father, James Amos Gordon, was 28 and his mother, Emily Melinda Boyles, was 23. He married Mattie Melissie Stone on 24 December 1912, in Paola, Miami, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Shoals Township, Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1940 and Pinnacle, Loutre Township, Montgomery, Missouri, United States in 1963. He died on 12 January 1963, in North Carolina, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, United States.
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- Edgar Gordon, "United States Census, 1940"
- T. Edgar Gordan, "Kansas Marriages, 1840-1935"
- Tony Edgar Gordon, "North Carolina, Deaths, 1931-1994"
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World Events (8)
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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The Stones of Surry, pages 437-446
Source: The Stones of Surry -Revised Edition -1955 Compiled by Charles H. Stone Charlotte, N. C. Pages 437-446 This is a typed copy of this book. I have not put any living descendants in this copy, a …
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