- Farmed on Highland Line, Con 10 Lot 5E, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada until 1856 then moved to Blue Earth City, MN.
Perth Courier, July 3, 1891
The subject of the following obituary notice which is clipped from a Minneapolis newspaper lived on the Highland Line, Dalhousie, before moving west and will be remembered by a great many of the old settlers of that township: "Gordon?Died, at the home of his daughter Mrs. James Brownlee, Jo Davies Township on Saturday, 25th April, John Gordon, 93 years, 5 months. The funeral services were held at the house on Monday, Rev. W. O. Conrad officiating. The remains were taken to the Blue Earth City Cemetery for burial followed by a long procession. The deceased was born in Culron Scotland on the 26th Dec., 1797. In 1827 he came to America and settled at Dalhousie, Canada. There he married his wife Annie McKinnon. In 1856 he brought his wife and family to Fremont, Winona County, Minnesota. In September, 1857(?) he moved to Beaufort, Blue Earth County, where his wife died the following December. He then made his home with his son until 1863(?) when he came to live with his daughter with whom he died. He leaves five children, two sons and three daughters: James Gordon, Silverton Oregon; Mrs. James Brownlee, Jo Davies; Mrs. C. C. Hinckley, Winona, Minnesota; John Gordon, Polk County, Minnesota; Annie Gordon, Mapleton, Blue Earth County. Mr. Gordon was a member of the Presbyterian Church since before he left Scotland and was a firm believer in the atonement of Christ and the Second Advent. About an hour before he died he spoke his last words which were "I commit my life, mind and soul to His Holy Will".
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1797 - 1891 (93 years)
