Nancy Southard
Born: May 4, 1763, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Died: Feb., 1859, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Parents: Timothy Southard & Susannah Sworden
Marriage: May 17, 1780, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Buried: Rockaway Presbyterian Cemetery, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey


Patriot
American Revolutionary War

Husband: David Gordon
Born: Oct. 23, 1759, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Died: July 23, 1852, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Military Service: Continental Army, American Revolutionary War
Buried: Rockaway Presbyterian Cemetery, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey

Children:

Phebe Canfield Gordon

Born: Nov. 11, 1780, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Died: unknown
Buried: Rockaway Presbyterian Cemetery, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
First Marriage: Jan. 1, 1804, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
First Husband: Asepth Patch
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Second Marriage: unknown
Second Husband: William Merriam
Born: unknown
Died: unknown

William Gordon
Born Nov. 19, 1782, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Died: unknown, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Buried: Rockaway Presbyterian Cemetery, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Marriage: Aug. 27, 1803, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Wife: Elizabeth Rochelle
Born: unknown, Sparta, Sussex Co., New Jersey
Died: unknown, New York
Note: Lived at Rockaway. While on a business trip to Baltimore, MD, to introduce a method of extracting iron from
 cinder refuse of the forges, was taken sick, returned to New York, called at a hotel and requested a room to rest, and
was told they had none for a drunken man, he acted so strangely, he insisted he was a sick man, and inquired for Ithamar Ayres,
who was sent for and removed to his house where he died. He was buried at Rockaway near his father, David in an unmarked grave.

Susannah Gordon
Born: Oct. 10, 1785, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Died: unknown, Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York
Marriage: unknown
Husband: Ithamer Ayers
Born: unknwn
Died: unknown

Amy Gordon
Born: Sept. 25, 1787, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey
Died: unknown, lived at Upper Longwood, Sussex Co., New jersey
Buried: Presbyterian Cemetery, Berkshire Valley, Morris Co., New Jersey
First Marriage: Dec. 19, 1807, unknown
First Husband:Timothy Losey
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Second Marriage: unknown
Second Husband:unknown Tuttle
Born: unknown
Died: unknown

Naomi Gordon


   


The headstones of David Gordon & Nancy Southard
at the Rockaway Presbyterian Cemetery in Rockaway, NJ.


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