Bertha V. Crawford and Sloane Gordon
SLOANE GORDON died May 7, 1926 in Stone County, Missouri.706
He married BERTHA V. CRAWFORD on June 24, 1896 in Middletown, Butler, Ohio,1786 daughter of SARAH BELLE POTTER and JAMES CRAWFORD. She was born February 21, 1875 in Lemon, Butler, Ohio,2570 and died May 11, 1957 in Northfield, Washington, Vermont.3654 She is buried in Woodhill Cemetery, Franklin, Warren, Ohio.3654, 456
Children of BERTHA V. CRAWFORD and SLOANE GORDON:
- JAMES DOUGLASS GORDON, b. January 25, 1898, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio;2570 d. April, 1898;4492 bur. Middletown Cemetery, Butler County, Ohio.4492, 456
- ROBERT SLOANE GORDON, b. May 28, 1900, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio;3654, 7948 m. BARBARA H. GERTZ on June 21, 1935 in Montclair, Essex, New Jersey3654, 7948; d. August 21, 1968, Brookfield, Orange, Vermont.3654
Robert
Obituaries
Hamilton Evening Journal, May 11, 19263655
Fall From Cliff Caused Death of Sloane Gordon
Details Of Hamilton Journalist's Death Received—Body Cremated
Funeral services for Sloane Gordon, 55, prominent magazine writer and former Hamilton newspaperman, who was killed instantly when he fell from a cliff 110 feet to the ground below, near his summer camp in the Ozark mountains, near Reed Springs, Mo., were being arranged Tuesday.
The body was taken to Kansas City for cremation. According to John H. Gordon, of Cincinnati, a brother, funeral arrangements have not been completed, and it has not been determined where the ashes will be interred. The services, however, will be private.
Gordon had been in the White river country for several weeks, preparing a number of magazine articles and working on a book depicting life in the Ozarks. He told attendants at his camp that he was going fishing. While descending from the top of the cliff, by means of a rustic ladder, his foot slipped and he was plunged to his death. Other campers found his body shortly after he had fallen.
Attaches at the camp said that he had been subject to heart attacks and the theory was advanced that he may have suffered such an attack when descending the ladder. The first reports of his death received in Hamilton did not tell of his fall from the ladder.
Hamilton Daily News, May 11, 19263656
SLOANE GORDON—A NOTED CAREER.
The death of Sloane Gordon is a distinct loss to journalism in which he had been an all-around worker for years. Some men become noted as editors, publishers, correspondents, humorists or in some of the many specialties of the profession, but Gordon had been everything and succeeded alike as reporter, correspondent, editor, feature writer for magazines as well as newspapers, etc. He also was a winning promoter and press aent and like many others of his versatile class did more for others than for himself.
Gordon was a life-long friend of the late James W. Faulkner whom he resembled in wit and brilliancy of diction. Both were standard (?) writers and captivating interviewers and knew "the news business" from the ground up. Both had an unlimited capital stock as newsmanagers in their acquaintance with public men and the delegates to national and other conventions which both had attended fro decades. But they differed from one thing to another. Faulkner was always anchored. At "standing pat" even Mark Hanna could not beat the steady hand played for almost forty years by Jim Faulkner, who died as the most distinguished of all Ohio correspondents. And his predecessors in that capacity at Columbus include such men as W. D. Howells, Whitelaw Reid and E. D. Mansfield.
Gordon and Faulkner started at Cincinnati as reporters, Fauklner continued as such after he was transferred to the Columbus bureau of the Enquirer and up to his death. He refused promotion to Washington or New York or service "over the seas" during the World War—while Gordon accepted such offers and visited European countries, notably Russia after the war, for magazines and newspaper syndicates. Others have written "all around the world" as well as all over their own state and country asdid Gordon, but no one ever knew so many people in his own state or as much about Ohio affairs in his own day as Fulkner, who they by his steadfastness got up in a class all by himslef. Gordon was in the very next class and ranked highly.
Gordon was born a newspaper writer, his father being one of the most noted correspondents of his day and Gordon also had advantages of an early education that Fauklner had to pick up like other self-made mem. Gordon was a product of the Miami Valley. He is remembered most in Hamilton as the editor of the Daily Sun which for some years shone brilliantly. Here and in Middletown he and Mrs. Gordon (Bertha Crawford) had many friends who will ever cherish their memories and who sincerely sympathise now wither her over her great loss.
Dayton Daily News, May 15, 19576699
MRS. BERTHA GORDON
MIDDLETOWN — Services for Mrs. Bertha Crawford Gordon, formerly of Middletown, who died last Saturday in Vermont, will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Wilson Memorial home. Burial in Woodhill cemetery, Franklin. Mrs. Gordon, a native Middletonian and widow of Sloan Gordon, one-time Middletown and New York newspaperman, had resided in Vermont the last 15 years with a son, Robert.
Daily Republican-News, April 30, 18984492
A SAD BEREAVEMENT
Infant Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sloane Gordon is Dead.
Word was received here today of the death of the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sloane Gordon, of Price Hill, Cincinnati. The remains will be brought to Middletown for burial.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| June 4, 18803652 | Middletown, Butler, Ohio |
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| June 9, 19004491 | Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio |
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| April 1, 1910125 | Manhattan, New York, New York |
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| April 15, 19303657 | Middletown, Butler, Ohio |
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| April 24, 19402511 | New York City, New York, New York |
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