GORDON, (Capt.) S. J. C., Amite Cty., MS., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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CAPT. S. J. C. GORDON, BAYOU CURRENT.--Capt. Gordon was born in Amite county,
Miss., October 1, 1826.  He is the son of James R. and Martha I. (Cassels)
Gordon, natives of North Carolina and Mississippi respectively.

James R. Gordon was a young man on going to Mississippi, and when our subject
was a child he removed to East Feliciana parish, Louisiana.  After having
lived there for some time he returned to St. Helena, where he resided up to
the time of his death.  He was quite a successful planter.

The subject of our sketch was reared in East Feliciana parish, where he
received a common school education.  When seventeen years of age he commenced
to work without having any particular occupation.  In 1849 he began farming,
and the same year removed to his present location on the Atchafalaya river,
where he has now a valuable plantation.

He married, in 1841, Miss Mary J. Scott, of East Feliciana parish.  To this
union have been born four children, viz:  Mary E.,  Ella E.,  Mary Scott, and
S. J. C., Jr.

Capt. Gordon is perhaps the oldest resident on this side of the Atchafalaya
River; he has seen the country develop from its original wild state to the
high state of cultivation in which it is now found.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 45.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.