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1880 census gives age as 5 years old.
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Birth year is given as 1865 in reference B. This is supported by the Smith source.
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On Farm.
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Cited source identifies Reynolds grave site as being grave 619 at the Nashville National Cemetary. It is possible that his body was removed to the National Cemetary at a later time.
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Ancestral File CD gives death date as 3 Aug 1863. Civil war casualty.
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Served in Co G, 14th Ohio Infantry Union. Volunteered on 14 Dec 1863, about 18 months after his older brother died. No doubt it was a conscious choice to enlist in the same company as his brother had served it. A little more than seven months later, he also had died in the line of fire. The wound had been incurred in action on July 9, 1864, after which he had been cared full in the hospital at Nashville. The Record of Death and Interment in his military files gives his cause of death as a gunshot wound in this right shoulder and chest. He was buried in the Nashville city cemetery. His grave is identified in the same document as number 8919 in the City Cemetery. His rank at death was Private, marital status as single, father as George Gordon, Antwerp, Ohio.
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He took part in the War of the Revolution and was at the battle of Trenton where Cornwallis pushed Washington across the Delaware on December 8th, 1776, the latter securing every boat and bateau against a pursuit by the former, and on Christmas Eve, 1776, helped ferry Washington's troops across the Delaware through the ice where they began to march on Trenton before daylight, which resulted in the capture of Col. Rahl and one thousand officers and privates.
The genealogy of the Gordon family is varied and interesting, and is here correctly given, being verified by the Herald Office in Edinburgh, Scotland. They are undoubtedly of Celtic origin, probably Pictish, judging by their first know location. The first authentic mention of the family is Bertram de Gordon, who assisted Philip II of France at the siege of Chalem against Richard I of England in 1889, and in a personal encounter wounded Richard severely. Their lands were in what is now Berwickshire, southeast of Edinburgh, and the parish of Gordon still retains the name, whence the family came. They were a prop serous and powerful house in the reign of Malcolm II (1004-1034) and remained in Berwickshire until the reign of Robert Bruce (1306-1320).
On the fall of the Cummings family, their estates in Mar (now Aberdeen),were given to the Gordons, they retaining only a small portion of their original patrimony, which they still retain: there are still many of the name, as the Earl of Aboyne and Viscount Henmure. The Gordons have always been a family of soldiers, and after their removal to the north, their place as soldiers was filled by the Douglas family,both of whom could and often did bid defiance to their sovereign. Especially was their influence felt in the wars consequent to the Reformation. They were Roman Catholics and zealous supports of the beautiful, unfortunate Mary. One of the family went to Russia and was enrolled. Several went to Sweden and their descendants are there yet, and always soldiers. The family suffered much and has been widely scattered in the various wars and religious changes that have occurred in Scotland and since the union in Great Britain. The almost continuous wars with England made it necessary for the king to retain and cherish the influence of the Gordons by adding to their landed possessions and titles, till the baron of the fourteenth century became the duke of the seventeenth and was allied by marriage with royalty. Thus Adams, knighted by Bruce after Bannockburn, 1315; Alexander, made Earl of Huntley by James II; George, made a marquis by James Vi, and George, by Charles II, made duke of Gordon. All of these titles were bestowed for many services, each carrying with it increased possessions in entail.
All of the emigrants to the several European countries were Jacobins, Roman Catholics and supporters of the royal Stuart family. Those that came from Scotland to Ireland and America were Presbyterians of the most rigid type. The ducal family remained Roman Catholic until the eighteenth century and the estates are the second in Scotland. In 1303, when Edward I of England had subdued almost the whole of Scotland, they were among the few nobles that stood with Bruce for liberty and the independence of the county, and the last Englishman was driven over the border. They have always been staunch royalists, especially during the rule of the Stuarts, and in our own time the Gordon Highlanders have carried their name and arms wherever the British flag has been either feared or respected.
The present ducal family are descendants of Richard Gordon of Gordon, who in 1276 endowed the abbey of Kelso, now one of the finest ruins in Scotland. He was succeeded by his son, Thomas, who went with the Crusaders and fell at Fort Jeeb de Aon. His only daughter married Adam, a kinsman, succeeded by Sir Adam, knighted by Bruce. He got from Bruce the confiscated estates of the Cummings, the Gordons going to Aberdeen and Moray, where they remain. He was succeeded by Alexander, he by Alexander, who fell at the battle of Durham in 1346; he by John, he by David, slain at Hamildon. He left an only daughter, who married Sir Alexander Seaton; he by permission of James II resumed the name, quartered the arms and had all the immunities of the Gordons; he was made Marquis of Huntly, the succession being then made a male fief by James II (1437-1460). His son Alexander, Earl of Huntley, was Lord High Chancellor of Scotland to James III and IV and his wife was a daughter of James I. His son Alexander was privy councilor to James IV and led the van of the army at Flodden, and during the minority of James V, he was Lord Lieutenant of the Kingdom north of the Forth. His daughter, Mary, married Perkin Warbeck, the pretended Duke of York. His grandson was Lord Lieutenant during the king's absence in France to marry Magdalen, in the fourth year of Queen Mary as chancellor and for bravery at Pinktecheugh, got the Earldom of Moray. His son, George, Chancellor and privy councillor to Mary and general of all her forces, died in 1576. George, his son, was captain of the Scotch regiment of refugees in the service of Louis XIV of France, and in the civil wars of Charles I was his lieutenant in the north. He was beheaded at Edinburgh March 30, 1649. His son was Lewis, first Marquis of Huntley; his son was made Duke by Charles II in 1648 and by James I (II of England) Governor of Edinburgh Castle, Knight of the Thistle and Lord of the Treasury. He died at Leith in 1716; his son, Alexander, died in November 1728; his son Alexander Cosmo George, died in France, 1752; his son Alexander died in 1827; his second daughter Mary married Charles Lennox, fourth Duke of Richmond. His son, George V and last of the direct line, died in 1836. His maternal uncle, Charles, Duke of Richmond, took the name of Gordon in right of his mother, under the style and titles now the Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon.
St. Mary's Aisle has been for over 250 years the burial vault of the Gordon family at Elgin Cathedral in Morayshire; the oldest readable monument in black-letter latin, the translation being as follows: "Here lies a noble and powerful Lord, Alexander Gordon, first Earl of Huntly, Lord of aGordon and Badenoch, who died the 15th of July in the year of our Lord, 1470." There have been many other inscriptions but they have been broken, the brass tablets stolen and the vault and its surroundings are now a scene of utter desolation.
Their coat-of-arms is very varied, bearing parts of the several family arms of their inter-marriages with hose entitled to coat armor.
Name not found in "New York In The Revolution" by Berthold Fernow, vol 1.
Nothing found in "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State" by James Roberts, 1897
Nothing found in "Calendar of Historical Manuscripts relating to the War of the Revolution" Vol II, 1868
Nothing found in "An Outline History of Orange County..." by Samuel Eager, 1846.
In addition to the three sons that went to Ohio, I have a strong suspicion that the other sons included Elijah, John, Selah (Silas) and Charles. This number of sons fits the earlier census tabulations. There were also daughters, I'm sure.