Leila Sinclair Gordon Barnett with her daughters Leila and Anne Gordon
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Mrs. Basil Gordon,
who is to be married to Lieutenant Colonel George Barnett of the marine corps, is one of Virginia's most famous beauties. She was Miss Lelia Sinclair Montague, daughter of Powhatan Montague of Virginia, and her ancestors figure prominently in colonial and Revolutionary history.
Watertown Re-Union, February 5, 1908
Born: July 22, 1871
Died: April 3, 1959
Married: Basil Gordon (died, 1901), George Barnett
Children: Basil Gordon, Lelia Sinclair Gordon, Katherine Douglas Gordon, Anne Hamilton Gordon
Chiefly known for:
Ogdensburg Journal, July 16, 1902
BABIES BADLY BURNED.
Carelessness of a Nurse May Have Serious Results.
The carelessness of a nurse was responsible for painful injuries received by two babies at Saranac Lake, Sunday. The little ones are the twin year-old daughters of Mrs. Basil Gordon, of Baltimore, Md., who arrived at her camp, Silverstrand, about two miles from Paul Smith's, about two weeks ago. The children are beautiful, and have attracted much attention from the cottagers and hotel guests in that section.
Sunday evening as the nurse was placing her two young charges in bed, the draperies of the couch caught fire from a lighted candle which she was carrying in her hand. The terrified nurse attempted to extinguish the blaze and rescue the children, but did not succeed in doing so until the latter had been severely and dangerously burned, one about the abdomen and limbs and the other about the head and left side of the face.
Dr. E. L. Trudeau, of New York, was summoned, and said he had hopes of the recovery of both children.
Mrs. Gordon is the wife of former Congressman Basil Gordon, of Maryland, and is prominent in Baltimore society.
New York Times, Dec. 14, 1907
MRS. GORDON ENGAGED.
Will Marry Lieut. Col. George Barnett of the Marine Corps.
Special to The New York Times. BALTIMORE, Dec. 13.—The engagement has just been announced of Mrs. Leila Sinclair Gordon, widow of Basil Gordon, of the well-known Baltimore family of the name, to Lieut. Col. George Barnett, United States Marine Corps. During the last two years Mrs. Gordon has spent the time chiefly abroad and at her country home, Wakefield Manor, in Virginia.
Col. Barnett is a son of the late James Barnett of Wisconsin. He is a graduate of the Naval Academy, class of 81. For the last two years he has been stationed in Washington, but is now under orders for Peking, China, where he will be in command of the troops at the American legation. He is a member of the New York Yacht Club, of the Army and Navy Club of Washington, and of the University Club of Philadelphia.
