Lorenza Susan Jordan

1865–1943 (Age 78)
Monroe, Walton, Georgia, United States

The Life of Lorenza Susan

When Lorenza Susan Jordan was born on 12 November 1865, in Monroe, Walton, Georgia, United States, her father, Lorenzo Hope Hull Jordan, was 40 and her mother, Susan Blakely Steger, was 38. She married John Cape Ham on 22 December 1885, in Monroe, Georgia, United States. She died on 13 November 1943, in Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, United States, at the age of 78.

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Family Time Line

Lorenza Susan Jordan
1865–1943
John Cape Ham
1865–1903
Marriage: 22 December 1885

Spouse & Children

MARRIAGE
22 December 1885
Monroe, Georgia, United States

Parents & Siblings

  • Lorenzo Hope Hull Jordan

    Male1825–1865Male

  • Susan Blakely Steger

    Female1827–1902Female

siblings

(8)

  • Augusta Eugenia Jordan

    Female1853–Female

  • Laura Hull Jordan

    Female1854–1943Female

  • Dean Jordan

    Male1856–Male

  • Willis R. Jordan

    Male1857–1901Male

  • Lucy Wesley Jordan

    Female1861–1902Female

+3 More Children

World Events (8)

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

Age 1

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.

Age 2

This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
1886

Age 21

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

English, French, German, Polish, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán): from the Christian baptismal name 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 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.

Possible Related Names

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Sources (3)

  • Rennie Ham in household of John C Ham, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Lorenza Jordan Ezell, "Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942"
  • Rennie Jordan, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"

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