CHARLES JORDAN

JORDAN, TRAPHAGAN, GRAVES

Posted By: Nancee Seifert (email)
Date: 12/31/2009 at 06:41:52

The Journal
Leon, Iowa
June 28, 1883

DIED -- At the residence of his daughter, Mrs. TRAPHAGAN, in Wyoming, Ill.,
Sunday morning, June 17, 1883, CHARLES JORDAN, in his 84th year.

CHARLES JORDAN was born Nov. 16, 1799, in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania.
In 1812 he moved to Muskingum Co., Ohio, where he continued to reside until
1853. He was married in 1823, and raised a family of two sons and two
daughters -- JOHN and ROBERT, Mrs. TRAPHAGAN and Mrs. EDMUND GRAVES. His
wife died in 1853, and since that date he has lived in Iowa a part of the
time, but mostly with his children at or near Wyoming.

In early life he united with the Baptist Church, and continued a faithful
member up to the day of his death.

For several years the writer hereof has been well acquainted with
Grandfather JORDAN, and will ever remember him as a quiet, inoffensive,
intelligent, Christian gentleman; always pleasant and genial in his
intercourse with neighbors and friends; one to whom we all extended a hearty
welcome. He had lived beyond the allotted time of life -- over four score
years -- and in his departure we shall miss one of the time honored
landmarks that was a guide to our moral actions. But we could not keep him
with us always, and today we believe he is happy in a better land, clothed
in the habiliments of immortality.
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December 30, 2009
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