My suspicion is that you will have a good deal of response with these Gordons. They sound as if they are from the Union District SC Gordons covered quite extensively in the book Gordons of the Deep South. I do not have a copy, but many on the list have offered to look up in the past. good luck, Hurston Anderson>I am new to this list and hoping for help in connecting my GGG grandmother, >Elizabeth GORDON to Eli GORDON. >Both are buried in Prospect Cemetery, Chickasaw County, MS. > >Elizabeth b. 18 July 1810 South Carolina > d. 2 April 1887 Chickasaw County, MS, > wife of Barnet G. (Bernard Glenn) SIMS > >Eli Gordon b 23 July 1814 d. 12 Aug 1884. > >I suspect that Elizabeth and Eli were siblings. Elizabeth and Barnet were >living in Pickens County, Alabama, until about 1842. Barnet died that >year. Both Eli Gordon and Elizabeth Sims were in Chicksaw County by 1850. > >Elizabeth and Barnet's first son was named Eli Lycurgus Sims. > >Thanks for any guidance. > >