My Genealogy Hound

Oscar B. Gordon, the subject of the present sketch, is a promising young attorney of Prescott, and a native of Georgia, having been born in that State, Dougherty County, on November 7, 1860. He is a son of Alexander A. and Eliza A. (Ransone) Gordon. The father and mother were both natives of Georgia, and the former followed farming and stock-raising as an occupation through the entire course of his business career. He died in Georgia in 1865, after serving in the Civil War from 1861 to 1864, during which time he contracted the disease that finally resulted in his death. His end was very peaceful, he being a faithful and earnest Christian and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The parents of the subject of this sketch were married in Georgia in 1858, and of their three children—Oscar B., Alexander A. and Charles C. —Oscar is the eldest. After the father’s death the mother was married again, the object of her choice being Robert Atkinson, of Columbia County, Ark. They have two children, viz.: Willie E. and Eva. Her second husband, the stepfather of the subject of this sketch, was a farmer, and died in Columbia County in 1888, and in that county his widow now resides. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Oscar B. Gordon moved to Arkansas with his grandfather, Beverly B. Ransone, in 1873, and in the year 1883 located in Prescott, and three years later was admitted to practice in the circuit and inferior courts of the State, and shortly afterward to the supreme court. He is, besides being a prosperous and noted attorney, assistant cashier of the Nevada County Bank, and stands high in the esteem and admiration of the community of which he is so useful a member.