When Rebecca Jordan was born on 22 January 1841, in Macon, Brown, Ohio, United States, her father, William Jordan, was 32 and her mother, Margaret Coffel, was 31. She married James William Sullivan on 3 October 1867. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Washington, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Allen, Lyon, Kansas, United States in 1895. She died on 29 December 1925, in Iola, Allen, Kansas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Iola, Allen, Kansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1854: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1854: Kansas Territory, United States 1855: Breckenridge, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Breckenridge, Kansas, United States 1862: Lyon, Kansas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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