When Elijah Noah Jordon was born on 9 October 1890, in Greenbrier, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States, his father, Jesse Price Jordan, was 29 and his mother, Amanda Mallet, was 24. He married Flossie Etta Bolton on 4 September 1912. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Union Township, Conway, Arkansas, United States in 1910 and Konawa, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States for about 20 years. He died on 20 December 1977, in Midland, Midland, Texas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Konawa, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States.