This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gordon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GMB.2ACE/154.1 Message Board Post: Do you know when Silas Gordon died? I found this piece and wondered if you had heard of him being a doctor? HISTORY OF GRAYSON COUNTY TEXAS -Gordonville - Gordonville was established in the early 1800's and names for S.M. Gordon, who gave the land for the townsight. For many years, it was sparsely settled and it was near the Red River which was frequented by outlaws and marauding Indians. Dr. S.M. Gordon practiced in the vicinity at turn of the century.