Book Description

Chiefly ancestors and descendants of Jessie Olive Gordon Flack (b. 1893) and Maybelle Inez Gordon Carman (b. 1896). Both are daughters of Jasper Newton and Sarah Belle Hiddleston Gordon. Jessie Olive Gordon was born 10 September 1893, near DeSoto, Johnson Co., Kansas. On 3 September 1913, at Lawrence, Kansas, she married Frank LeRoy Flack, M.D., son of William Frank and Sarah A. Brown Flack, who both practiced medicine in Longton, Kansas. Frank died 25 December 1963 at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Maybelle Inez Gordon was born 19 November 1896, near DeSoto, Johnson Co., Kansas. On 1 March 1918 she married Justice Neale Carman, son of Frederic Douglass and Gay Neale Carman, at Herrington, Kansas. The sisters are descendants of John and Elizabeth Caldwell Gordon (1701 - ca. 1750). John Gordon was born about 1690, birth place not given, and died in June 1742 at Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived in Deleware, North Carolina, Indiana, Kansas, Wyoming, California, Texas, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia and elsewhere.