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- L.B. Gorden
Prairieton township probably has no more honored or highly respected citizen than the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch. He was born the 2d of February, 1843, in Montgomery county, Kentucky, of which state his parents, William V. and Lydia E. Ribelin Gorden, were also natives. They were married December 7, 1841, and in their family were the following children: L.B.; William R.; Randall R.; Thomas J.; John M.; Joseph A.; Sarah J.; Mary A., deceased; and B.F., also deceased. Coming to Illinois the family located in Christian county on the 5th of March 1862, and here the mother died two years later, passing away on the 10th of January, 1864. The father, who long survived here, died at the old homestead in Christian county, February 22, 1899. He was a son of Randall R. and Bachel (Baber) Gorden, natives of Virginia. At the age of nine years, however, Randall R. Gorden went to Kentucky, floating down the Ohio river on a flatboat and landing on the present site of Maysville, where he located. On the trip he was shot at by the Indians who were then very hostile to the white settlers. He was only eighteen years of age at the time of his marriage, while the bride was a girl of fifteen. ...
Past and present of Christian County, Illinois. By J. C. McBride. 1904. Page 286.
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