LOGAN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: GORDON, BEAM Bio Notes, Logan County [Part 3] *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Submitted by: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Email: MaggieOhio@columbus.rr.com Date: August 17, 1999 *********************************************************************** Regarding David nees Soules - --------------------------------------- Dear Dale and Barb, What a treasure you have sent me. It is far beyond my wildest dreams. I can hardly contain myself. After all these years of searching to finally find concrete information about my ancestors. I have not carefully analyzed the content, but it appears that the list contains the children and grandchildren of Joseph and Mary (Davis) Dyer. And to find that she did not die until the 1850s is truly amazing. This means that I may be able to find her in the 1850 census. Joseph Gordon built the first log cabin in Bellefontaine. He was in the War of 1812 and served as a mail carrier and a spy. He was immortalized in a stone astride his horse in the Capitol, having posed for the statue. He was a small man, but was quite fearless so the story goes, carrying messages and intelligence across enemy lines. Oliver T./P. Gordon, his son, is my ancestor. He was a stage coach driver and won Catherine Beam's hand by driving off the road right to her door to deliver the mail. He had the honor of driving Charles Dickens on the Ohio leg of his tour of the US and later became his book agent. I have a photo of him and he is quite rugged with a long flowing mustache. Both of his daughters are in the list. Aunt Amanda and Phoebe H/A. Phoebe was born 24 May 1849 in Logan County, just as the record states. Aunt Amanda married William Rosebrook and is buried at Rushsylvania, Ohio. She took care of her father in his last days. He lived to be 88. Many of the names are not familiar to me, but that just extends the mystery a little more. What would life be without some mysteries to solve? You can be assured that I will not sleep tonight until I have unraveled some of the mysteries. I met some of Uncle Nelson Gordon's descendants at the Beam reunion. Catherine's father moved from Ohio to Flowerfield, Michigan and one of Nelson's daughters, Nin, I think married an Ingraham, who also was a postal employee and attended the only reunion I visited in about 1958. They lived in Florida when I met them. When Aunt Amanda passed my father journeyed to Ohio and we still have a cherry bed that he brought back, along with a framed copy of Oliver P.'s marriage certificate. My father's sister, Mary (Born) Minninger-Bahr was postmistress of a small Indiana town for 29 years and I worked a couple of summers for her, so you see it seems to run in the family. Well, I could ramble on for hours, but am eager to start comparing those wonderful two pages with my Gordon notes. Hopefully I will find a Soule reference as well. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Gerald =================== Please return email to MaggieOhio@columbus.rr.com =================== *************OH-FOOTSEPS Mailing List***************************