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| | Inventory of the Gordon and Hackett Family Papers, 1752-1942 |
 | | The Gordon and Hackett families of Wilkes County, N.C. were united through the marriage of Robert Franklin Hackett (died circa 1889) and Caroline Louise Gordon Hackett (1828-1891), who were married in 1859 after an extended and secret engagement. |
 | | Brigadier General James Byron Gordon, brother of Caroline Gordon Hackett, was a merchant, farmer, politician, and Confederate soldier born at Wilkesboro. |
 | | The Gordon family was of Scottish descent and had emigrated from Scotland in 1724 to settle first in Maryland and finally in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and Wilkes County, N.C. James B. and Caroline Gordon's parents were Nathaniel Gordon and Sarah Lenoir Gwyn. |
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