"Charles Wesley Gordon played the guitar & loved to play baseball when young. We have two bats he made and they are beautifully designed and balanced. He took our kids (5 grandchildren) fishing one day and spent the whole time getting fishing lines free from the bushes and trees around the tank and he had a great time! Charles was a trolley driver in Dallas then & when they switched over to buses drove them until he retired. There is a tourist trolley ride now from downtown Dallas up McKinney Ave that is quite an attraction. They use the old trolley cars. He took a ride on the trolley with his son Kendall a couple of years before he died. The man driving the trolley was the one Charles had trained & he let Charles sit up there & drive for awhile. He loved it!"
*Charles Wesley Gordon loved to play baseball when young. We have two bats he made and they are beautifully designed and balanced. He took our kids (5 grandchildren) fishing one day and spent the whole time getting fishing lines free from the bushes and trees around the tank and he had a great time! Charles was a trolley driver in Dallas then when they switched over to buses drove them until he retired. There is a tourist trolley ride now from downtown Dallas up McKinney Ave that is quite an attraction. They use the old trolley cars. He took a ride on the trolley with his son Kendall a couple of years before he died. The man driving the trolley was the one Charles had trained and he let Charles sit up there and drive for awhile. He loved it!
*Charles Monroe Gordon delivered rural mail on horseback and also did veterinary work. Charles Wesley Gordon played the guitar and William Brown Gordon played the fiddle at the dances in Prairieville TX.
*Fannie Lorene Gordon-Thomason died due to a brain tumor. She is a daughter of Charles Monroe Gordon.
2001 ~ Donna Gordon


*During 1903/1904 Charles M. Gordon rented part of the Eubank Ranch northeast of Prairieville and lived in a 2 story ranch house and farmed the land.
*In 1918 Charles M. Gordon bought 69 1/2 acres of timbered land with Lacy Creek running across it. He bought 2 acres of land from G.A. Dowdle up on a hill 1/2 mile and north from the 69 1/2 acres. The Gordon's built a house in Dec 1917 on the 2 acres and moved into it Jan 1, 1918. The Gordon's cut the timber off of most of the 69 1/2 acres and farmed it.
*In 1975 the Bench Warmers was formed by C.W. Gordon. Original members were Tom Hamilton, Charles Gordon, Millard Green, Tom Shipley, Bill Gordon, Mack Farland Sapp and J.T. McDonald. Tom Shipley, Millard Green and Tom Hamilton are now deceased. The purpose of the Bench Warmers is to keep up with the Prairieville gossip and tell a few tall tales. Jack Rand is the latest member.
~ Charles Wesley Gordon


Note: Charles Monroe Gordon was the son of James Bolton Gordon & Malinda Jane Abney. Charles Wesley & Fannie Lorene are the son & daughter of Charles M. Gordon.



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