Brief Life History of Christina Margaretha
When Christina Margaretha Jordan was born on 5 April 1827, in Fußgönheim, Ludwigshafen, Bavaria, Germany, her father, Jacob Abraham Jourdan, was 23 and her mother, Anna Maria Bechtold, was 26. She married Johan Philipp Jourdan on 5 May 1854, in Posey, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States for about 30 years and Evansville, Randolph, Illinois, United States in 1910. She died on 24 September 1910, in Posey, Indiana, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States.
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- Christina Jourdan, "United States Census, 1910"
- Christina Margretha Jordan, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
- Cristina Jordan, "Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1832 · Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Randolph, Illinois, United States
Name Meaning
English, German, French (mainly Alsace and Haute-Savoie), Polish, Czech, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán): from the Christian personal name or nickname Jordan. This is taken from the name of the river Jordan (Hebrew Yarden, a derivative of yarad ‘to go down’, i.e. to the Dead Sea). At the time of the Crusades it was a common practice for crusaders and pilgrims to bring back flasks of water from the river in which John the Baptist had baptized people, including Christ himself, and to use it in the christening of their own children. As a result Jordan became quite a common personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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