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Gordon Cemetery

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Location	:	Fairfield, Freestone County, USA
Coordinate	:	31.7686520, -96.0739640
Description	:	The location of this cemetery is near the entrance of the Fairfield Lake State Park. Turn left just before you enter the State Park gate just past the Equestrian Trail road. This is not actually a separate cemetery but the black section of the Chancellor / Union Church Cemetery. Since several of the death certificates identify the cemetery as the Gordon cemetery, a separate listing has been created. It was even referred to as the Spring Bank Cemetery on one death certificate. Spring Bank was a small black community near the Ball Branch. There... Read More	The location of this cemetery is near the entrance of the Fairfield Lake State Park. Turn left just before you enter the State Park gate just past the Equestrian Trail road. This is not actually a separate cemetery but the black section of the Chancellor / Union Church Cemetery. Since several of the death certificates identify the cemetery as the Gordon cemetery, a separate listing has been created. It was even referred to as the Spring Bank Cemetery on one death certificate. Spring Bank was a small black community near the Ball Branch. There was known to be a church and school in Spring Bank and they were located not very far from the cemetery just about a mile or two in a semi easterly direction. An early black family that was living in this area of Freestone County in the late 1800's was Reuben Gordon and it is possible that the cemetery was associated with his family. His daughter, Bettie Strain, is buried here. However, many of the known burials are of the John Ingram and Tom Thornton families. The Chancellor/Union historical marker denotes that John Ingram was the earliest known burial in this section, who died in 1915. One burial, Martha Ingram, was a midwife in this region and is thought to have lived with the Joseph Eluid Lee family as a nannie for his children. She is mentioned in the article on Joseph E. Lee Family in the Freestone County History Book, Vol. II, p. 327; and is photographed with their family. There are many unmarked graves scattered across a very large area running the entire width of the back part of the cemetery. Family legend tells that there were already graves here when the first Chancellor baby was buried in 1857 according to Jody Nolen. The burial ground was eventually abandoned as people moved away. It had not been tended from late thirty's until the cemetery was cleaned up in the 1990's by members of the Chancellor family. The new chain link fence was added about this time. It became unacceptable for there to be a separation between the races; therefore the old dividing fence was not replaced. The old fence ran from a large cedar tree just to the left of the Confederate Veterans Ring of Honor all the way across the cemetery running just behind the grave of Bobby Glen Chancellor and in front of the Thornton family graves. Bits of old bob wire can still be seen in the cedar tree and a row of very large trees seems to be growing along this line. It is most plausible that the Gordon burials were connected to Robert Alexander Gordon, born 1824 in Alabama; one of the earliest settlers in Freestone County. This Gordon family came to Freestone County from Wilcox County, Alabama in the early 1850’s about the same time that the Chancellor family did. It also appears that Rueben Chancellor and Robert Gordon were neighbors on the 1850 Census in Alabama. It is possible that the black Gordons living around Brown’s Creek were slaves of this Gordon family. The 1860 Slave Schedule for Freestone County shows that Robert owned 20 slaves. His son, H. M. (Henry/ Willie) Gordon was first married to Martha Lee, daughter of Mary Lee, 1880 Census. It is not known if she was related to J. B Lee but it is highly possible. Robert Gordon’s half-brother was James H. McIlveen. Both were sons of Mary Ann (Gregg) Gordon McIlveen. Also his sister, Martha O. was the wife Dunbar Bragg. All of these families were important pioneer families in Freestone County. The Robert Gordon family lived in town and many are buried in the Fairfield Cemetery. It is thought the the son H.M. "Willie" Gordon, Sr. lived on and ran the farm at Brown's Creek. Robert Gordon and his wife vacated Freestone County around 1870. They are buried in the Faulkenberry Cemetery near Groesbeck in Limestone County.

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