Irena Gordon

Obituary, dated January 6, 1898, of Irena Macy Gordon from the American Friend Newspaper in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana: "Irene Gordon died December 3, 1897. She was the daughter of Asa and Hannah Macy, born January 5, 1816, in Guilford county, North Carolina, where she remained until she removed to Johnson county, Kansas, in 1869, where she has since lived. She was married to Jonathan W. Gordon, who died April 30, 1888. Converted in early life, she lived an earnest, conscientious and practical Christian. For many years she was deprived of attending meeting most of the time; yet her faith never wavered, she was always cheerful and happy. She bore a lingering illness with much patience, saying "All is well, I am happy, " and requested the 23rd Psalm to be read at her funeral, expressive of her faith and trust in God. In loving memory we say, she "Being dead, yet speaketh." She leaves four sons, a daughter and a large circle of relatives and friends. She was a valuable member of the Prairie Centre Monthly Meeting, Johnson County, Kansas."

SOURCE: Find A Grave.com

NOTE: The grave stone for Irena shows her and her husband and their son, Oliver Cromwell Gordon and his wife Eliza Ellen Couch Gordon, and gives each of their birth and death dates.