Brief Life History of William Slaughter
When William Slaughter Jordan was born in 1799, in Woodford, Kentucky, United States, his father, George W. Jordan, was 47 and his mother, Martha Lightfoot, was 33. He married Juliann Rebecca Caldwell on 27 March 1826, in Woodford, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Moscow, Hickman, Kentucky, United States in 1860. He died in 1876, in Hickman, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oakton, Hickman, Kentucky, United States.
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- Wm S Jordan, "United States Census, 1850"
- Wm Jourdan, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- William Slaughter Jordan, "Find A Grave Index"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1801 · Cane Ridge Revival
The Cane Ridge Revival took place for six days in Cane Ridge, Kentucky. From August 6, 1801- August 12 or 13, 1801, around 20 thousand people gathered together for what was called the Second Great Awakening.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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