In a message dated 5/22/99 8:20:03 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << the book "Gordons of the Deep South". >> Where did the Gordons of the Deep South originate? I am stuck on my great-grandfather's family in Jackson Co., TN. He was born in about 1805 in TN, and the only Gordon in the county of an age to have been his father was Richard Gordon. Jackson County has experienced a couple of court house fires, so records are sketchy at best, and we haven't made a firm connection. Richard Gordon was born in Henry Co. VA in 1766, and his family moved from there to Wilkes Co., NC, where Richard served three months in the militia and then they moved on to Wilkes Co., GA, to Franklin Co., GA. This was reported on Richard's RW pension application, but from that point he joined the militia again, marched through Sumner Co., TN to Powell Valley, VA., married and moved to Madison Co., VA (KY) and finally to Jackson Co., TN., never to live with his birth family again. James C. Gordon married Martha J. sometime before 1835, and their son James W. was born in Alabama. They were back in Jackson Co. by 1850. Does the trek from Henry Co. VA, to Wilkes Co. NC, to Wilkes and Franklin Co. GA match any of those Gordons of the Deep South? Thanks for any help you can give me. Joyce