V-Edward Humphrey Doak, son of Frances Eve Banton, married, June 14, 1893, Susie Young Lyle, of Nashville, Tennessee. She was born March 22, 1872. He is superintendent of the Kentucky School of Reform at Lexington. Issue: Robert Kilvington Doak, b. Feb. 15, 1897; d. Feb. 11, 1903. GORDON. V-Jane Boyle, daughter of Major John Boyle, according to family tradition, eloped soon after completing her fifteenth year and married David Gordon, who was born in North Carolina, January 9, 1770, and died in Boone county, Missouri, January 18, 1849. He was active and enterprising. In November, 1818, he entered a homestead-then in Howard county-and joined with others, in a conveyance to establish the town site of Columbia, which was designed to be the county seat of the new county of Boone, when it should be formed, as set forth in the deed recorded in Book C, 156, of the Howard county records, which he acknowledged November 14, 1818, and confirmed by deed recorded in Book A, 132, of the Boone county records, executed by his attorney in fact, and nephew in law, William Miller Adams (page 23), September 3, 1821. In 1820, and still later, he added some thousands of acres to his possessions, in that vicinity, and in 1821, his son George Washington Gordon had come from Kentucky to represent his father in caring for his lands. In 1825, he removed from Madison county, Kentucky, with such members of his family as remained unmarried, and bringing with him his household goods, numerous slaves and much stock. All their children were born in Madison county. Issue: I-Elizabeth Gordon, b. Apr. 4, 1797; d. Garrard Co., Ky., II-John Boyle Gordon, b. Dec. 1, 1798; d. Columbia, Feb. III-Mary Gordon, b. Sept. 11, 1800; d. Mar. 12, 1862. V-Emily Gordon, b. Oct. 12, 1804; d. Columbia, Sept. 21, 1847. VI-Thomas Jefferson Gordon, b. July 27, 1806; d. Chillicothe, Mo., Apr. 23, 1867. VII-William M. Gordon, b. Mar. 10, 1808; d. Livingston Co., Apr. 5, 1858. VIII-James Madison Gordon, b. June 22, 1810; d. Columbia, Feb. 21, 1875 IX-Sallie Gordon, b. Feb. 21, 1812; d. in infancy. X-Charles Wilkins Gordon, b. Jan. 30, 1814; d. Boone Co., XI-Benjamin Franklin Gordon, b. May 25, 1817; d. Sept. XII-David Gordon, b. Mar. 6, 1819; d. Mar. 27, 1875. XIII-Jane Gordon, b. Apr. 14, 1822; d. Apr. 18, 1885. I-Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of Jane Boyle, married, Madison county, Kentucky, February 23, 1817, Azariah Doty, who was born in Burke county, North Carolina, April 22, 1781, and died March 17, 1865. "He was of medium stature, neat and exact—a severe and stern moralist, and disciplinarian. One of his sons, when about twenty years old, seriously offended his father, who refused to see him again. Yet he supplied him with money, and the son removed to Missouri." They lived near Paint Lick, Garrard county, where their children were born (page 163). Issue: I-Benjamin Franklin Doty, b. Mar. 9, 1818; d. Hyattsville, Garrard Co., Apr. 18, 1887. II-Volney Doty, b. Mar. 18, 1820; d. Madison Co., Aug. 4, III-James Monroe Doty, b. Apr. 15, 1822; d. Madison Co., IV-Emily Doty, b. Aug. 25, 1824; d. Point Leavell, Garrard V-Jane Gordon Doty, b. May 5, 1826; d. Point Leavell, VI-John Gordon Doty, b. Dec. 25, 1828. VII-Mary Ann Doty, b. Sept. 23, 1831; d. Bryantsville, Gar rard Co., Nov. 14, 1904. VIII-William Marshall Doty, b. Dec. 25, 1834; d. Young's Creek, Audrain Co., Mo., Dec. 5, 1890. I-Benjamin Franklin Doty, son of Elizabeth Gordon, married Ist, Garrard county, December 29, 1839, Brunette Arnold Boyle, daughter of Absalom Arnold and Tabitha Clay Bruce. She was the widow of John Boyle, (page 13) and was born December 2, 1820, dying December 29, 1849. He married 2d, January 28, 1851, her sister, Clara Arnold, who was born April 22, 1822, and died January 7, 1884. Issue: By first marriage: I-Elizabeth Jane Doty, b. Sept. 25, 1840; d. Sept. 19, 1876. II—Azariah Doty, b. May 15, 1842; d. Mar. 2, 1862, from wounds received at Fort Donelson. He was a member of Capt. Dave Logan's Co. "G," with Forrest. III-Tabitha Clay Doty, b. Jan. 11, 1844. IV-Rebecca Jamison Doty, b. July 4, 1845; d. Apr. 27, 1850. By second marriage: VII-Rebecca Doty, b. Mar. 30, 1852; d. in infancy. } b. Feb. 4, 1859. I-Elizabeth Jane Doty, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Doty, married, Garrard county, October 4, 1864, Allen Parks. Issue: I-Frank Doty Parks, b. July 2, 1865. II-Brunette Parks, b. Jan. 2, 1867; m. John Cox. III-Ernest Parks, b. Mar. 9, 1868; d. IV-Annie Parks, b. Dec. 23, 1869; m., 1896, David Dunn. V-Victor Parks, b. Dec. 25, 1871. VI-Clarence Parks, b. Aug. 17, 1873; d. Aug., 1898. VII-Lizzie Parks, b. May 1, 1875; m., 1892, Jesse Dunn. III-Tabitha Clay Doty, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Doty, married, Garrard county, April 3, 1867, John Perkins Doty, son of James Monroe Doty (page 97). V-Amanda Bragg Doty, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Doty, married, Garrard county, January 10, 1871, James Allen Arnold, son of Henry Arnold and his first wife, Ann Beazley. Henry Arnold married 2d, Emily Doty, daughter of Elizabeth Gordon (page 89). They lived in that county. Issue: I-Henry Bacon Arnold, b. Oct. 10, 1871. I-Henry Bacon Arnold, son of Amanda Bragg Doty, married, December 26, 1895, Mattie Anderson, daughter of J. Mat Anderson and Bettie Salter. Issue: I-Mabel Claire Arnold, b. Oct. 27, 1896. VI-Brunette Doty, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Doty, married, Garrard county, September 6, 1877, Joseph Kennedy, born Garrard county, February 9, 1841, son of Andrew Kennedy and Rachel Nicholson. Issue: I-Henry Franklin Kennedy, b. Aug. 26, 1878. IV-Elizabeth Lee Kennedy, b. May 26, 1883; d. in infancy. V-Milton Elliott Kennedy, b. May 25, 1884; d. in. infancy. |