John Jordan was born in Ohio to Robert Jordan and Sarah Wimmer Jordan. Robert was a veteran of the War of 1812. John had at least 7 brothers and 2 sisters. His widowed mother Sarah lived in Shelby Co. Indiana in Feb. 1843 at the time John married Elisabeth Judd, daughter of William Judd and Nancy Vantrease. John and Elisabeth came to Vermilion County IL by 1850. They lived near Indianola and Vermilion Grove, where ca 1857 their older sons were schooled by teacher Josephus Hollingsworth of Vermilion Seminary. At that time they lived near or on the Pleas Mills place.
Other children born to John and Elizabeth (for whom memorials are not made) are Mary Elizabeth (1844-48, nfi), William Francis "Frank" (abt 1846 - 186?, said to have died during the war of measles, nfi), and Amanda Elz. Ann (1854 - ?, married Sam Jones, supposed to have died "in the South").
Mother Elisabeth died some time after she had delivered twins in 1858. A toddler Lucinda Ellen (b. 1856) also died. The burial locations of Elisabeth, one of the twins, and Lucinda were not documented. Descendants believed they might have been buried at Vermilion Grove in unmarked graves.
John married wife # 2 Rebecca Nash in Vermilion County IL Jan 18, 1863. Rebecca had children from her previous marriage. Together John and Rebecca had 8 additional children. They lived in Carroll Twp., Vermilion County IL until after 1880, when they moved to Vermillion County IN in the "Horseshoe" area of the Little Vermilion, not far from Bethel Cemetery.
Descendants of John Jordan established an annual reunion in the 1920s. Information and remembrances were recorded in scrapbooks, and the group arranged for a marker at the burial location of John and Rebecca in Bethel Cemetery. For whatever reason, an incorrect death year was inscribed on the stone for John. His probate in Vermillion County IN was in 1894. He also signed a mortgage in Vermillion County IN in 1893. The Ann Berry 1980 book "Jordan" also gives this incorrect death date. A Jordan Bible existed but was lost to a fire in a descendant's home in the 1920s or 30s.
The gravestone also misleads people to believe that Elisabeth Judd Jordan is buried here. She is not. It's likely that the descendants (meeting at reunion when the gravestone was planned) wanted to include her, and having no other location to mark, decided to memorialize her on John's stone.
Older Jordan reunion scrapbooks have been archived at the Illiana Genealogical and Historical Society Library (also on digital copy). The library holds a copy of the Berry book, which lists descendants of John Jordan known to 1980. The reunion of John Jordan descendants continues each June in Vermilion Co IL.
Other children born to John and Elizabeth (for whom memorials are not made) are Mary Elizabeth (1844-48, nfi), William Francis "Frank" (abt 1846 - 186?, said to have died during the war of measles, nfi), and Amanda Elz. Ann (1854 - ?, married Sam Jones, supposed to have died "in the South").
Mother Elisabeth died some time after she had delivered twins in 1858. A toddler Lucinda Ellen (b. 1856) also died. The burial locations of Elisabeth, one of the twins, and Lucinda were not documented. Descendants believed they might have been buried at Vermilion Grove in unmarked graves.
John married wife # 2 Rebecca Nash in Vermilion County IL Jan 18, 1863. Rebecca had children from her previous marriage. Together John and Rebecca had 8 additional children. They lived in Carroll Twp., Vermilion County IL until after 1880, when they moved to Vermillion County IN in the "Horseshoe" area of the Little Vermilion, not far from Bethel Cemetery.
Descendants of John Jordan established an annual reunion in the 1920s. Information and remembrances were recorded in scrapbooks, and the group arranged for a marker at the burial location of John and Rebecca in Bethel Cemetery. For whatever reason, an incorrect death year was inscribed on the stone for John. His probate in Vermillion County IN was in 1894. He also signed a mortgage in Vermillion County IN in 1893. The Ann Berry 1980 book "Jordan" also gives this incorrect death date. A Jordan Bible existed but was lost to a fire in a descendant's home in the 1920s or 30s.
The gravestone also misleads people to believe that Elisabeth Judd Jordan is buried here. She is not. It's likely that the descendants (meeting at reunion when the gravestone was planned) wanted to include her, and having no other location to mark, decided to memorialize her on John's stone.
Older Jordan reunion scrapbooks have been archived at the Illiana Genealogical and Historical Society Library (also on digital copy). The library holds a copy of the Berry book, which lists descendants of John Jordan known to 1980. The reunion of John Jordan descendants continues each June in Vermilion Co IL.
John Jordan was born in Ohio to Robert Jordan and Sarah Wimmer Jordan. Robert was a veteran of the War of 1812. John had at least 7 brothers and 2 sisters. His widowed mother Sarah lived in Shelby Co. Indiana in Feb. 1843 at the time John married Elisabeth Judd, daughter of William Judd and Nancy Vantrease. John and Elisabeth came to Vermilion County IL by 1850. They lived near Indianola and Vermilion Grove, where ca 1857 their older sons were schooled by teacher Josephus Hollingsworth of Vermilion Seminary. At that time they lived near or on the Pleas Mills place.
Other children born to John and Elizabeth (for whom memorials are not made) are Mary Elizabeth (1844-48, nfi), William Francis "Frank" (abt 1846 - 186?, said to have died during the war of measles, nfi), and Amanda Elz. Ann (1854 - ?, married Sam Jones, supposed to have died "in the South").
Mother Elisabeth died some time after she had delivered twins in 1858. A toddler Lucinda Ellen (b. 1856) also died. The burial locations of Elisabeth, one of the twins, and Lucinda were not documented. Descendants believed they might have been buried at Vermilion Grove in unmarked graves.
John married wife # 2 Rebecca Nash in Vermilion County IL Jan 18, 1863. Rebecca had children from her previous marriage. Together John and Rebecca had 8 additional children. They lived in Carroll Twp., Vermilion County IL until after 1880, when they moved to Vermillion County IN in the "Horseshoe" area of the Little Vermilion, not far from Bethel Cemetery.
Descendants of John Jordan established an annual reunion in the 1920s. Information and remembrances were recorded in scrapbooks, and the group arranged for a marker at the burial location of John and Rebecca in Bethel Cemetery. For whatever reason, an incorrect death year was inscribed on the stone for John. His probate in Vermillion County IN was in 1894. He also signed a mortgage in Vermillion County IN in 1893. The Ann Berry 1980 book "Jordan" also gives this incorrect death date. A Jordan Bible existed but was lost to a fire in a descendant's home in the 1920s or 30s.
The gravestone also misleads people to believe that Elisabeth Judd Jordan is buried here. She is not. It's likely that the descendants (meeting at reunion when the gravestone was planned) wanted to include her, and having no other location to mark, decided to memorialize her on John's stone.
Older Jordan reunion scrapbooks have been archived at the Illiana Genealogical and Historical Society Library (also on digital copy). The library holds a copy of the Berry book, which lists descendants of John Jordan known to 1980. The reunion of John Jordan descendants continues each June in Vermilion Co IL.
Other children born to John and Elizabeth (for whom memorials are not made) are Mary Elizabeth (1844-48, nfi), William Francis "Frank" (abt 1846 - 186?, said to have died during the war of measles, nfi), and Amanda Elz. Ann (1854 - ?, married Sam Jones, supposed to have died "in the South").
Mother Elisabeth died some time after she had delivered twins in 1858. A toddler Lucinda Ellen (b. 1856) also died. The burial locations of Elisabeth, one of the twins, and Lucinda were not documented. Descendants believed they might have been buried at Vermilion Grove in unmarked graves.
John married wife # 2 Rebecca Nash in Vermilion County IL Jan 18, 1863. Rebecca had children from her previous marriage. Together John and Rebecca had 8 additional children. They lived in Carroll Twp., Vermilion County IL until after 1880, when they moved to Vermillion County IN in the "Horseshoe" area of the Little Vermilion, not far from Bethel Cemetery.
Descendants of John Jordan established an annual reunion in the 1920s. Information and remembrances were recorded in scrapbooks, and the group arranged for a marker at the burial location of John and Rebecca in Bethel Cemetery. For whatever reason, an incorrect death year was inscribed on the stone for John. His probate in Vermillion County IN was in 1894. He also signed a mortgage in Vermillion County IN in 1893. The Ann Berry 1980 book "Jordan" also gives this incorrect death date. A Jordan Bible existed but was lost to a fire in a descendant's home in the 1920s or 30s.
The gravestone also misleads people to believe that Elisabeth Judd Jordan is buried here. She is not. It's likely that the descendants (meeting at reunion when the gravestone was planned) wanted to include her, and having no other location to mark, decided to memorialize her on John's stone.
Older Jordan reunion scrapbooks have been archived at the Illiana Genealogical and Historical Society Library (also on digital copy). The library holds a copy of the Berry book, which lists descendants of John Jordan known to 1980. The reunion of John Jordan descendants continues each June in Vermilion Co IL.
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