When Susannah Frater Gordon was born on 18 December 1851, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, William Reid Gordon, was 28 and her mother, Annie Duncan Frater, was 26. She married William Thompson on 1 December 1868, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880 and Basalt, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1900. She died on 2 December 1942, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
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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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