* After Nancy was widowed, she rotated staying with her children and their families. Robert Paxson Gordon has memories of his grandmother during the times she stayed with his family. "Grandma Gordon was very jolly and quite a talker. She sat in front of the fire in her rocker and talked. She knew everybody in the country, it seemed, also who was kin to whom. She was the story teller type, the words just flowed. I remember she made a lot of quilt tops. Grandma Gordon was a heavy set woman and walked with a cane. She may have had bad knees. She always wore a long dress, with her ankles barely showing. She would spoil the kids and was always on our side!
1992 ~ Robert Paxson Gordon

* After I married into the family, my mother-in-law gave me two quilts, the tops of which had been made by Grandma Nancy Gordon, who had made quilt tops for all of her grandchildren. She had 46 grandchildren.
~ Peggy Gordon

* Nancy E. Gordon died at the home of her daughter, Lizzie Gordon-Powell in Tombuli, Lonoke Co AR. Grandma Gordon could never be idle. She was always making quilt tops. She made a quilt for each of her grandchildren. Grandma Paxson (Matilda Agnes Kelley-Paxson) said to Grandma Gordon, "What do you want to sit there for, patching quilt tops - they'll never do you any good!"
1992 ~ Cuba King-Gordon (wife of Joseph Leonard Gordon)