Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Edward Budd Gordon and Nettie Kelly




Husband Edward Budd Gordon 1

           Born: 5 Feb 1885 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 10 Mar 1941 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Clinton Plumer Gordon (1854-1922) 4 5
         Mother: Joanna Jane Murtland (1859-1930) 2


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Louisa McKean "Lulu" DeWoody (1885-1933) 6 - 27 Jun 1906 - ? Venango Co, PA 1



Wife Nettie Kelly 7

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

   Other Spouse: [Unk] Cox (      -      ) 7 - Oct 1936 7


Children

General Notes: Husband - Edward Budd Gordon


He attended Slippery Rock Normal School and Lock Haven Normal School, majoring in music. He spent his entire working life in the oil business, most of the time as an independent oil producer. During World War I he was Field Superintendent for a large oil company; he was based in Kentucky, first in Barbourville and then in Winchester. He also did some drill­ing in West Virginia and Ohio. During the mid-twenties he owned a small refinery near Kennerdell. At the time of his death, he and his son Leon were drilling near Pleasantville, PA.

When he was a student at Lock Haven, he bought a violin at a pawn shop there. It had a beautiful tone and was marked as made by Stradivarius, though its authenticity was never ascertained. That area was not too far from the spot where a home was constructed for Marie Antoinette of France, who was imprisoned before she could flee. Many a musical evening was spent at Budd's house, with Virginia playing the piano while Budd and Leon played violins and Ralph DeWoody played the guitar. If Walter Gordon were there, he was sure to join in with his beautiful tenor voice.


General Notes: Wife - Nettie Kelly


She had three children from previous marriage when she wed Gordon.

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Sources


1 Virginia Gordon Russell, The DeWoody Family of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981.), Pg 60.

2 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 34.

3 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 60.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1028.

5 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 21.

6 Virginia Gordon Russell, The DeWoody Family of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981.), Pg 56.

7 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 61.


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