When Amos Azariah Jordan was born on 25 July 1898, in Ambia, Hickory Grove Township, Benton, Indiana, United States, his father, Thomas Vincent Jordan, was 37 and his mother, Bertha Truella Robertson, was 24. He married Olive May Fisher on 4 April 1921, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States in 1930 and Heyburn Election Precinct, Minidoka, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 31 December 1965, in Heyburn, Minidoka, Idaho, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Heyburn, Minidoka, Idaho, United States.
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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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Possible Related NamesIn 1936 the family moved from the country to being two blocks from the LDS Church. Then Olive and the children could attend. Amos Azariah, the father was not interested in the Church. His wife conv …
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