TUDOR HALL / VA. // OCT / XX cds with matching PAID 5 on cover addressed to Mrs. Mary B. Gordon, Care of James B. Gordon, Esq., Cobham, Albemarle, Va, Very Fine. Tudor Hall was the postoffice marking for Manassas. $125.

Dr. John Churchill Gordon (1831-1919) was born at “Edgeworth” Virginia and received two M.D. degrees – one from University of Virginia, Charlottesville and the other from Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. He married Mary Beall Pegram June 4, 1861 and was appointed Asst. Surgeon a little over a week later to the 38th Va. Infantry. He resigned in November the same year, but practiced medical in Albemarle County until 1910. The Gordons had ten children.