Joel Gordon (1822 - 1865)

Born 3 Dec 1822 in Spencer County, Indiana, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Clarinda Pierce — married about 1844 in Menard County, Illinois, USA

Descendants

Died 25 Apr 1865 at age 42 in Andersonville, Georgia, USA

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Biography

Died in Andersonville Prison, Prisoner of war.

Sources

• Year: 1850; Census Place: Menard, Illinois; Roll: M432_120; Page: 339A; Image: 518

• Year: 1860; Census Place: Township 17 Range 6, Menard, Illinois; Roll: M653_205; Page: 757; Family History Library Film: 803205

• Ancestry.com. Andersonville Prisoners of War [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999; Original data: Andersonville, Georgia. Andersonville Prisoner of War Database. Andersonville, GA, USA: National Park Service, Andersonville National Historic Site.

• Name: Joel Gordon; Service Info.: PVT CO B 114 ILL INF; Death Date: 25 Apr 1865; Cemetery: Andersonville National Historical Site; Cemetery Address: Route 1, Box 800 Andersonville, GA 31711; Buried At: Section H Site 12847; National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

• The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Title: General Index to Civil War and Later Pension Files, ca. 1949 - ca. 1949; NAI Number: 563268; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773 - 2007; Record Group Number: 15; Series Title: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; Series Number: T288; Roll: 180