Major
Cicero
Gordon
(Gordon)
Muse
Born in Montgomery, Alabama
Ancestors 
Son of Charles Duncan Muse
and Lidia Vera (Moffitt) Muse
Brother of
Barney Muse
Husband of
Mattie Lorine (Vaughn) Muse
— married
22 Jun 1926 in AL
Descendants 
Father of
Geraldine (Muse) Phillips, [private daughter (1920s - unknown)] and [private son (1930s - unknown)]
Died
at age 44
in near Carthage, Moore Co, NC
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Apr 2018
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Biography
Gordon Muse graduated from Auburn University in Alabama as an electrical engineer, and approximately 15 years later, he served for two enlistment periods of WWII. During the second enlistment, in Europe, he was caught, protecting himself as best he could under a jeep, as enemy aircraft fired from above on him and his comrades, for hours. At end of 1943, he was sent home to USA, discharged because of severe heart problems. Once home in North Carolina, less than three months later, he suffered a massive heart attack in March of 1944. On February 8, 1947, as he walked, with his son Thomas, toward the back door of their home in order to prime a well pump, he collapsed and died instantly of heart failure.
(See the Thomas Muse biography for more details.)
He was in Europe for most of the time in the second enlistment; in the first enlistment, he had been in North Africa with the Allies as they tried to delay and to defeat Rommel. He achieved the rank of Major in the Army.
He is buried at Fort Bragg Main Post Cemetery, where his officer's rank and his dates of birth and death are recorded. His occupation before the War had been as an electrical engineer working for a utilities company in Birmingham, AL.
Sources
- Muse family history handed down to me--reports from Thomas Gordon Muse and Geraldine Muse Phillips
Find a Grave index, where a few notes have been added, including his marriage to Mattie Lorine Vaughn in 1926.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Gordon by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Gordon:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Gordon by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Gordon:
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Kathy (Daniel) Hull 
:
AncestryDNA, yourDNAportal KAT72115735, Ancestry member kdh111035
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~3.12%
Tamara Burkhead :
MyHeritage DNA
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Lindy (Hull) Stuart :
AncestryDNA, yourDNAportal LINc0fe8037, Ancestry member lhstuart3
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Jarod Stuart :
23andMe
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From this visit with Uncle Gordon I have very few memories of physical surroundings for the most part, but I clearly remember still the very warm, energetic, and jovial personality of this Moffet and Muse descendant. He was so delighted with me and my sister Carol, his brother's daughters. He teased us, but only with gentleness and humor appropriate for our age.
Then the highlight of the whole visit: He took us, with our parents, to our "Uncle Mallie's" (youngest brother of Charles Duncan Muse) farm where we were taken onto a tobacco sled for a sled ride! Another indelible memory was of a real, very old well located somewhere near the farm-house. I will never forget the mysterious depths of the water that was only suggested to me as I learned about water from the earth; I'll not forget, either, the cool sensation on my mouth and on my face when I was allowed to have water brought to me as I stood by the top of the well.