This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gordon Brown Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xUB.2ACE/2976.1 Message Board Post: James Gordon was living in 1850 in Wilkes Co. next door to the Browns. He was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah Gwyn Gordon. He later became Gen James Byron Gordon, CSA. Hamilton Brown was the stepfather of James. John Brown married Mary Basil Gordon, daughter of Chapman and Charity King Gordon. John and Mary moved to Columbia, Maury Co., TN. John became the guardian of Sarah C(hapman) Gordon in 1818. Later Sarah would married Dr. John Laws in GA, and after living there, they later moved to Columbia