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The Jordan Family Genealogy Page |
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Next Family Reunion - Sunday
May 15th, 2005, Exeter, California. more...
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| This site contains the genealogy
of the ancestors and descendants of Capt. John Jordan and Elisa Jane
Sadorus. |
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purchase a GENEALOGY CD |
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| “Captain” John Jordan, who headed
a wagon train from Texas to California in 1850 and eventually settled
in Tulare County in 1857. John Jordan was born on February 5, 1807
in Illinois, where he met and married Eliza Jane Sadorus in 1832. |
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| In about 1833, Jordan traveled
with his wife and daughter, Mary Ann, to an area of East Texas at
the site of a large salt dome, near what is now known as Grande Saline.
On December 17, 1845, he entered into a partnership agreement with
A.T. McGee for the purpose of making salt. At this time, the settlement
was known as Jordan’s Saline, and salt was made by boiling down the
brine from the marsh in iron kettles. |
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| In January 1850,
Jordan and McGee leased their interests in the salt works and departed
by wagon train to California. They eventually sold their holdings
in December 1850. In 1872, the Texas and Pacific Railroad was extended
from Marshall to Dallas, passing through Jordan’s Saline and the settlement
was renamed Grande Saline. |
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| The salt works were operated
by a series of owners until 1920 when it was purchased by the Morton
Salt Company. The Morton Salt plant at Grande Saline remains in operation
today. |
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| John Jordan died tragically
in 1862 along the Jordan Trail, while attempting to cross the Kern
River at Kern Flat along the Jordan Trail across the Sierra Nevada
mountain range in Tulare County. |
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| In 1893, the children of John
Jordan and their families gathered with their mother, Eliza Jane Sadorus
Jordan, at the family home northeast of Exeter. This was the first
of what would become a tradition of annual reunions on the Sunday
following Mother’s Day. This year marked the 111th annual reunion. |
| Go to Genealogy Data Base |
| The Ancestors and
Descendants of John Jordan are made up of many names. The more dominant
ones on this genealogy site are; Adams, Anderson, Armes, Arnold, Blakemore,
Bliss, Bohannon, Boone, Brooks, Brown, Browning, Bullard, Cleveland,
Coburn, Cortner, Crownover, Davis, Day, Denman, Douthit, Ellis, Epperson,
Estes, Hardesty, Hill, Jordan, Kirkman, Lanier, Loving, Martin, McGinnis,
McNay, Miller, Moore, Neal, Odum, Owens, Roberts, Sadorus, Smith,
Snodgrass, Street, Thomas, Turner, Washington, Welton, Wheaton, Whiteside,
Wilcher, Wilson, Wolford and Woodside. |
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| To
purchase a CD
of the Jordan Genealogy, which includes a GEDCOM file for those who
do not own a Family Tree Maker genealogy program, click on this link
Jordan-Family.org
and you will be able to purchase the CD online. The CD also includes
the database for Family Tree Maker. Both the GEDCOM file and the database
for Family Tree Maker contains all the genealogy that can be found
on this site. The database is more complete containing photos, and
more extensive notes. |
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| If
you would like to place a GEDCOM of your Jordan related genealogy
on this site please email
me with the details. Frank@Kirkman.com
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Family
group sheets can be viewed in private on this web site upon
individual request so that corrections can be made with reasonalbe
proof, common knowledge or documentation. Headstone photos are
documetation and can be displayed on this site. Please email
me with the details. |
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| The Jordan Family
genealogy is no longer being placed on the Family Tree Maker site
due the fact that some files cannot be viewed without a Family Tree
Maker program on the viewers PC. Basically Genealogy.com (Family Tree
Maker) is making the site increasingly more proprietary and selling
subscriptions to those who wish to surf the site. |
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| For questions or
suggestions please contact me.
This site is always under construction. |
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| The Captain John
Jordan Genealogy can be purchased from Family Tree Maker and we do
not wish to interfere with private enterprise, however, we think that
most of our genealogy should be free to researchers with any web browser
the researcher has available, since most of our genealogy was contributed
by family members. The GEDCOM file can be downloaded free from the
bottom of the genealogy
INDEX. The GEDCOM can be used as a text file or can be loaded
directly into most genealogy programs. |
| Go to Genealogy Index |
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