Evora Columbia (Phillips) Gordon (1848 - 1918)

Born 1 Oct 1848 in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Died 14 Feb 1918 at age 69 in Strong, Franklin, Maine, United States

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Biography

Evora Columbia Phillips was born at Livermore, Maine, on 1 Oct 1848, the daughter of Amasa Phillips and Susan (Morse) Phillips.^[1]

Name

Evora Columbia Phillips apparently went by both Evora and Coilumbia at different times in her life. The transcription by the town clerk of Leeds, Maine, of the birth records from the family record of the family Amasa Phillips calls her Columbia Ebora Phillips.^[1] She was living with her parents at Livermore in 1850 as Evora C. Phillips at the age of one.^[2] and in 1860 as Columbia E. Phillips at the age of 11.^[3] The death record of her first husband calls her Columbia Philips.^[4] Her death record calls her Columbia Evora Gordon^[5] but her gravestone calls her Evora C. Gordon.^[6] (Evora has been used as her WikiTree first name because that is her name in the earliest record found, the 1850 Census.)

Marriages

1. Evora Columbia Phillips married Benjamin Grant Jr. The death record of Benjamin Grant Jr. at Leeds, Maine, in 1884 names Columbia Phillips as his wife.^[4]
2. Evora Columbia Phillips married J. Franklin Gordon. She is named as the wife of J. Franklin Gordon on her death record^[5] and her gravestone.^[6]

Death

Evora Columbia (Phillips) (Grant) Gordon died from cancer of the uterus at Strong, Maine, on 14 Feb 1918. with her age at her death recorded as 69 years. 4 months, 13 days.^[5] Her gravestone at the Strong Village Cemetery in inscribed with the dates 1848-1918.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Undated transcription by the town clerk of Leeds, Maine, of an unspecified family record of the Amasa Phillips family, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921 database with images, FamilySearch > Vital records prior to 1892 > Perry-Phinney > image 3176 of 4148; multiple sources, Maine. Her name is listed as Columbia Evora Phillips in the list of children of Amasa and Susan (Morse) Phillips born at Livermore is on the back side of the birth record card of Achsah Anna Phillips.
2. ↑ Evora C. Phillips in the Amasa Phillips household, family #91, in United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Oxford > Livermore > image 11 of 43; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ Columbia E. Phillips in the Amasa H. Phillips ousehold, family #184, in United States Census, 1860, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Androscoggin > Livermore > image 23 of 42; citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Undated transcription by the own clerk of Leeds, Maine, of the death record of Benjamin Grant Jr., in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Delayed returns for vital records 1670-1891 > Goss, 1800-Grant, 1884 > image 4886 of 4892; multiple sources, Maine.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Death record of Columbia Evora Gordon, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Vital records, 1908-1922 > Goodrich - Gouzie > image 2064 of 4133; multiple sources, Maine.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Transcription made in 1991 of the gravestone of Evora C. (Phillips) Gordon, in Maine, J. Gary Nichols Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1999, database with images, FamilySearch > Goodridge - Gore > image 265 of 431; Maine State Library, Augusta