[email protected] wrote: > > Lois, > > That middle name “Benton” must mean something in the Gordon lineage, > but what?!?!?!?!?! Does anyone out there have a connection of the Benton > name with the Gordon name? My first Gordon ancestor having that middle name > was born in 1796 and came to America about 1820 from Co. Donegal, Ireland,if > that is a help. > > Jim Gordon > Hinsdale, IL Hello Jim Many of my ancestors moved from Va to SC to Al to Newton co Mississippi. They also moved from Va to Elbert Co Ga to Newton Co Mississippi. My Gordons were in the first movement. My Heards and Clevelands were in the second movement. In this second movement I have a Thomas Benton Heard who married Louisa Frances Cleveland in 1876 Newton Co Mississippi. My Gordons are listed in the book Gordons Of The Deep South. This is just another peice ofthe puzzle which may or may not fit. Harold