Jordans

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The following is quoted from a letter from Miss Julia M. Jordan dated July 31, 1895, Davisboro, Georgia to George F. Tennille in answer to inquiries from him about the Jordan family.

"Mrs. John H. Newton (Mary Newton) my aunt, applied for the pension of her father, John Jordan, a Revolutionary soldier and succeeded in getting it through Congress by the efforts of her son-in-law, Hon. H.H. Carlton of Athens, Ga. who was in Congress at the time. The pension money she received was laid out in a very substantial granite wall around the family cemetery here in the old homestead. John Jordan and wife, Britton Jordan & wife Ann Bell Jordan Tennille and other members of the family are buried here."

"John Jordan went to Georgia from Virginia and settled in Washington County in the same place and same house where I am now living which he built in 1810-11. He farmed all his life. He was a sober, upright man. He raised four sons and three daughters of which Britton was the eldest and Britton's daughter Ann Bell was the oldest granddaughter."

Julia M. Jordan was daughter of John, who was son of John, Revolutionary soldier. Julia's father John was Britton's brother.

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Mary (Jordan) Newton pension award, March 2, 1889