When Josiah Joseph Jordan was born on 21 September 1888, in Jackson, Dakota, Nebraska, United States, his father, Peter Jordan, was 57 and his mother, Margaret E Laird, was 44. He married Edith E Nelson on 3 February 1913, in Whitman, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Whitman, Washington, United States in 1900 and Winona, Whitman, Washington, United States in 1920. He died on 14 October 1965, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Spokane Memorial Gardens, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, 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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