When James Marion Jordan was born in November 1868, in Angelina, Texas, United States, his father, Wlliam Henry Jordan, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Pate, was 21. He married Lucy Ethel Whitaker on 16 February 1896, in Nacogdoches, Province of Texas, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1903, in Texas, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Bodan Cemetery, Pollok, Angelina, Texas, United States.
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Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
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.
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