Brief Life History of Zachariah
Zachariah Jordan was born about 1805, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. He married Elizabeth Malone before 27 February 1851. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Washington, Virginia, United States in 1850.
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- Zachariah Jourdan, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Zachariah Jordan - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Zachariah Jordan
- Frederick Leonard Sr. List of Heirs
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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