Susannah Frater Gordon

Brief Life History of Susannah Frater

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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Family Time Line

William Thompson
1840–1927
Susannah Frater Gordon
1851–1942
Marriage: 1 December 1868
Annie Thompson
1869–1887
Amelia Thompson
1872–1887
Mary Alice Thompson
1874–1953
William Thompson
1875–1949
Gertrude Hadden Thompson
1880–1969
Ethelinda Hamilton Thompson
1881–1950
John Alfred Thompson
1883–1968
Gordon Frater Thompson
1885–1960
Mabel D. Thompson
1889–1977
Earnest Thompson
1891–1909

Sources (51)

  • Susanna Gordon, "Scotland Census, 1861"
  • Susan G Thompson, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1938-1961"
  • Susan Gordon, "Idaho, Jefferson Star, County Cemetery Records, 1800-2000"

World Events (8)

1859 · Logan is Founded

"\""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.\"""

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

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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STORIES OF THE PAST, FROM MEMORY by James F. Gordon

I am starting this series of stories by giving some family history that I think is not written any other place. I received this information in a letter written to me by my eldest sister, Sus …

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