{"id":3235,"date":"2022-01-10T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:31:45","slug":"jordan-stephen-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/jordan-stephen-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan, Stephen A."},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen A. Jordan<\/strong>, a substantial farmer at Hall’s Station, Lauderdale County,
\non the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad, was born in Williamson
\nCounty, Tenn., February 4, 1825, and was the ninth child of fifteen children,
\nborn to Stephen and Anna (Dean) Jordan, and is of Irish descent. His father
\nwas born in Halifax County, Va., and came to Tennessee with his parents when a
\nboy; he was raised and married in Williamson County, and died there in 1848,
\nand the mother died in 1840. Our subject was raised on a farm and well
\neducated at Hardeman academy. He entered the Confederate Army, Fifteenth
\nTennessee Cavalry, and served over three years; was in the battles at
\nColumbia, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville. September 8, 1846, he married
\nin Williamson County, Miss Mary M. Caruthers, daughter of Robert Caruthers, a
\nfarmer. Four sons and four daughters were born to this marriage: Martha J.
\n(Mitchell), William J. (who died October 1884), Joseph B., Robert C., Emmerson
\nF., Annie E. (Dunavant), Cora S. (Nunn), and Mary L. Mrs. Jordan was born in
\nWilliamson County, May 4, 1828. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan, and all but two of the
\nchildren, belong to the Missionary Baptist Church. He is a Democrat, and owns
\n300 acres of fine land, raising stock and grain, and has lived at his present
\nhomestead since 1839. He is a liberal man, and a man of strict integrity.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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