Accession Number: Ph2024-066c
Repository: West Virginia State Archives
Creator: Beverly Underwood and the West Virginia Historical Society
Title: Thomas "Smoke" Gordon Collection
Date [inclusive]: circa 1915
Extent: 1 legal folder, 1 photo
Language: English
Citation: [item, collection number], Thomas "Smoke" Gordon Collection, West Virginia Archives and History, Charleston, WV.
Processing information: Meredith Barbery, October 2024
Conditions on Use and Access: none
Copyright: Copyright restrictions may apply.
Provenance: This collection was donated to West Virginia Archives and History at The Culture Center by Beverly Underwood, date unknown.
Processing Notes: The photo came to the Archives from Beverly Underwood of Princeton, West Virginia. Included was a handwritten blurb of Thomas Gordon's life. The blurb will be in the Historical Note.
Sources of Information [if applicable]: Donor, Beverly Underwood
Historical Note: Thomas "Smoke" Gordon, the son of Thomas H. and Mary Mitchell Gordon, was born on June 10, 1900 at Wytheville, VA. Thomas married Mary Carter and they had no children. Thomas and Mary lived on the Joe Hatcher farm on Low Gap Road, at Princeton in Mercer County, West Virginia. Thomas worked on the Virginian Railroad, as a carpenter, and on Joe Hatcher's apple orchard.
Thomas Gordon died on February 21, 1995 in Princeton, WV, and he is buried beside his wife, Mary, at Roselawn Memorial Garden Cemetery on the Bluefield and Princeton Road, at Princeton, WV.
Scope and Content: The collection includes one photograph of Thomas in a uniform.
Related Materials [if applicable]:
Arrangement:
Folder 1:
1. Thomas Gordon, circa 1915