This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------AB0A5F71C2CF4152C9375938 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------AB0A5F71C2CF4152C9375938 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mailsorter-105.bryant.webtv.net ([207.79.35.95]) by mta1.mailsrvcs.net (InterMail v03.02.04 118 119) with ESMTP id <19980920053606.DIRY16746@mailsorter-105.bryant.webtv.net> for <spenader@gte.net>; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:36:06 -0500 Received: from mailtod-111.iap.bryant.webtv.net (mailtod-111.iap.bryant.webtv.net [207.79.35.86]) by mailsorter-105.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.gso.08Dec97) with ESMTP id WAA03382; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 22:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from production@localhost) by mailtod-111.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.5/mt.gso.26Feb98) id WAA24300; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 22:36:05 -0700 (PDT) X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhUAxGnfNSb0lIb3Mqk4LLuunYQFjLUCFDvXcejbqmE+mLg/+7lMQFP2DNkK From: patbhalves@webtv.net (Patricia Neidigh) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 23:36:05 -0600 (MDT) To: spenader@gte.net Subject: LaSalle County question Message-ID: <1510-36049445-6013@mailtod-111.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) Hello! I have a bit of a "mystery", and I'm hoping you may be able to help. I've only come across this information today, so I don't know where to turn. My GGgrandfather, Samuel Gordon (along with his wife, Susan McDowell Gordon) were married in Ottawa, IL in 1859. They had a very large family (my mother says that there were 14 children). My greatgrandfather, Frank Gordon was born in Utica, IL in 1875. The information that I've just come across concerns the death of a farm hand of Samuel Gordon's. The death happened in 1888 or 1889, when Frank Gordon was only 13 years old. Grandpa Frank evidently witnessed his father kill this farmhand, and when his father realized that he had witnessed the killing, he went after Frank. Well, not being stupid, Frank literally ran for his life. He managed to get away from his father, and never returned. From IL, he went to OK, where he met and married his wife, and eventually ended up in California, where he died in 1957. The family that Frank left in IL, evidently, thought that he had died, because he never again had any contact with any of them. Samuel Gordon died 10 JAN 1912, in Deer Park, IL. Is there any way that you can check to see if there is any truth to this story? Or point me in the right direction, so that I may check it out? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Pat --------------AB0A5F71C2CF4152C9375938--