elizabeth gordon

my next few blogs will be about family long past....most, i don't know much about.... if anyone can add more, have at a comment. elizebeth gordon (orr) was grampas' mum. she ran the familys butcher buisness at annalong; they mostly sold meat to the many ships and boats sailing out of annalong harbor. grampa learned the butcher trade from her as a teenager. i did not know grampa was a butcher until i killed my first deer; i was about 18 and brought home a nice mule deer buck. we hung it in the pump house for a couple of days; then grampa took over. as usual there was no verbal teaching.....so, pay attention! grampa had the deer cut and wrapped in no time, he then told me he had learned the butchers trade from his mum before leaving ireland at 17. this he also told me about his mum....our family were protestants; at a village further up the track the catholic church had burnt down (you can speculate on why and how, as i do.) the parrishioners from the burnt church had to walk a long way, passing grampas' farm, to go to mass in the next nearest church. grampas' mum would set out a bench and brew a big pot of tea, she would give the people walking to mass a place to rest and a cup of tea.....sounds familier....