William Isaac Jordan

Family/Spouse: Allie Jessie Skinner. Allie was born on 29 Jun 1872 in Tyler County, Texas; died on 19 Nov 1944 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas; was buried in Bronson Cemetery, Bronson, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Halbert Armstrong Jordan was born on 16 Jul 1906 in Vernon Parish, Louisiana; died on 4 Jun 1983 in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Pineland Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas.

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Confederate Veteran, Age 88, Passed Away Sunday

A. C. Jordan, noble pioneer, has joined silent majority. A. C. Jordan of Hornbeck, a Confederate veteran in his eighty-eighth year, died suddenly in the Leesville hospital shortly after two o'clock Sunday afternoon and was buried at Holly Grove Monday afternoon. Andrew Allen Veatoh, of the Church of Christ, delivering the funeral eulogy. Besides those from his home community and elsewhere many people from Leesville attended the funeral for Mr. Jordan, was widely known and highly esteemed.

He is survived by his daughters, Mrs. Mollie Ellis of Hornbeck; Mrs Ida McQueen of Jasper, Texas; Mrs. Abbie Ellis of Port Arthur, Texas; Mrs. Elsie Field of Wichita Falls, Texas; and a son, A. C. Jordan, Jr. of Port Arthur, Texas, all of whom were at his funeral. The four daughters were with him when he expired.

A. C. Jordan was born February 14, 1842 in Jasper County, Texas, about where the town of Jasper now stands. That part of Texas was then a wilderness abounding with game, and it was no uncommon thing for roving bands of Indians to pass through on hunting expeditions or enroute to Natchitoches to trad peltry for necesaries; and it was quite an event to Mr. Jordan, then a little boy, when the dusky tribesman would camp near by and he could visit them.

At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate army, in which he served till the surrender. He was on the trying 30 days march from Morgan City to North Louisiana to oppose General Banks Red River Expedition. He was with Dick Taylor's Confederate lions at the Battle of Mansfield when Banks and his haughty invaders were huried back in discomfiture, and at the Battle of Pleasant Hill the next day when the Union forces were driven from the field in confusion and dismay. From that on clear to Alexandria it was a running fight for several days, the Northern troops doing the running the Confederates doing the fighting.

After the war Mr. Jordan was for many years extensively engaged in the timber business, which finally brought him to Louisiana.

He was a loyal Democrat and never in his life bolted the ticket.

He cherished the memory of the fallen Confederacy, and as long as he was able to make such trips attended the annual reunion of Confederate veterans.

He belonged to but one order, namely, the Church of Christ, and said it was the only organization he had any need of. He keenly enjoyed its services and attended them every opportunity when physically able to do so.

He read the New Testament daily, and shaped his life by its teachings.

He was a man of the highest honor. In all his life no one ever accused him of uttering a falsehood or making a misleading statement. The general verdict on his character was summed up in a declaration by Hon. Fern M. Woods, a friend of many years, when after the funeral Monday he said: "A. C. Jordan was the noblest, purest, kindest and best man I ever knew."

Gentle and unassuming as a child, honest as truth itself, brave as a lion, pure as a mountain spring, and at all times reflecting the Divine love and goodness of the great "Author and finisher of our faith," he was indeed "a man, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again."

Thanks to Rajordan for providing vital information and Obit.

(Copied from FindAGrave, Memorial ID 26496674) His headstone is shown on that website, and inscribed Co F 13 Texas Cav CSA. A photo of him is also shown.

Andrew married Sarah Catharine E. Barnett. Sarah was born on 1 Mar 1843; died on 26 Feb 1913; was buried in Holly Grove Cemetery, Anacoco, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mahulda Isaacs. Mahulda (daughter of Elijah Isaacks and Esther Donaho) was born on 23 Jun 1809 in Pike County, Mississippi; died on 19 Oct 1894 in Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Jordan Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mahulda Isaacks was born to Elijah and Esther Donaho Isaacks on June 23, 1809 in Pike County, Mississippi. Her father was a Private in the Nixon's 13th Regiment in the War of 1812 with the British. Mahulda's grandfather Samuel Issacks, was a Corporal under Captain Thomas Blackston in the 7th Regiment, Infantry. Samuel also served in the American Revolutionary War, in North and South Carolina, under General Francis Marion at the Battle of Cowpens. He held the rank of Private and worked as an Indian Spy, in Edgefield County, South Carolina in 1876.

Mahulda was the ninth born of fourteen children. Her sibilings were as follows: Elizabeth, Joseph, John William, Malone, Samuel, Mary, Abbie, Matilda, Nancy, Mahala, Lucinda, Andrew and Alfred Isaacks. In 1822, Mahala's father and family moved, by covered wagons, to Texas in the Bevil's Colonly, in what now is Jasper County, Texas.

Mahulda married William Isaac Jordan on January 4, 1827 in Jasper County, Texas. Their first child, Elvira Jordan, was born on January 8, 1828. She is my great-great-great Grandmother. There were twelve children born to this union and including Elvira their names are as follows: William Haywood, Lewis, Martin Wilkerson "Pete", Margaret Ann "Peggy", Elizabeth Esther, Andrew Colistus "Cuff", Thomas Alfred, Cynthia Sophia, James Martin, Elijah "Eli" and Mary Mahulda Jordan.

Mahulda Jordan passed away on October 19, 1894 in Jasper County, Texas.

(Copied from Find A Grave)

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Married:
census of Jasper, Municipality of Bevil , May 1 1835 list
William Jourdan , Mahuldah Isaacs Family (4 children ) page 10 of this census .

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#"The New Handbook of Texas" in 6 Volumes, Austin, The Texas State
Historical Association, 1996, Vol. III, page 876
ISAACKS, ELIJAH (1775-1859). Elijah Issacks, early East Texas settler
and delegate to the Convention of 1832, the son of Samuel and Mary
(Wallace) Isaacks, was born in South Carolina on February 22, 1775. He
married Esther (or Hester) Donaho in 1797. By 1809 he was living in Pike
County, Mississippi. After serving in the Mississippi Territorial
Militia during the War of 1812 he moved to Texas. Family tradition holds
that Isaacks arrived in Texas on January 10, 1822, although the illegal
nature of such an early migration led him to subsequently to declare the
date as 1830 before Mexican authorities. In any event he was one of the
earliest white settlers in Bevil's Settlement and later secured a tract
along Walnut Run. Isaacks served as a delegate from the Snow River
district in Tyler County to the Convention of 1832. At this convention,
in San Felipe de Austin, he served on two committees, one to study the
future of settlement east of the San Jancinto, and one to consider a
petition for establishing a state government separate from Coahuila (see
COAHUILA AND TEXAS). He was the father of ten children, a farmer, and a
blacksmith; he owned two slaves by 1850. His son Samuel Isaacks probably
arrived in Texas before him. He lived on land that is now part of Tyler
and Jasper counties before moving to Jasper, where he owned four town
lots. He died there after a fall on November 1, 1859.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Madeline Martin, More Early southeast Texas Families
(Quanah, Texas; Nortex, 1978) Texas House of Representatives,
Biographical Directory of the Texas Conventions and Congresses,
1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941.) Robert Wooster

http://www.ancestralvoyages.com/pafn33.htm

James Morgan, the son of Daniel and Mary Morgan (Sampson County, NC>Decatur County, GA>Jasper County, TX), was listed in his household in Jasper, Texas at the time of the 1850 census.

Elijah is said by John W. Clark to be a son of Samuel ISAACS and Mary WALLACE. However, Steve Moody, a descendant of Elijah ISAACS, wrote me that "Elijah Isaacks' mother was Mary Morgan, daughter of Joseph Morgan Jr. I've never been able to figure out how James was related, I thought maybe he was a cousin."

The following information, about Elijah's parents, was copied from a website titled "The Bush Family - My Ancestors" Clinton W. Bush, "Descendants of Isaacs" This has not been verfied against original records and should be used as a starting point for further research.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cwbush/isaacs.htm

SAMUEL ISAACS was born bet. 1754-1759 in Fredrick County Virginia., and died 1844 in Lincoln County Tenn. He married MARY WALLACE 1774 in South Carolina. She was born 1754 in Fredrick County Virginia., and died 1838 in Lincoln County Tenn. (Source: (1) DAR Membership # 278 734 Maud Isaac., (2) South Carolina Archives order # 3374, AA 3957 1/2 pp li B # 19 Contingent Account. Papers by Legislature Nov. 23, 1795.) John W. Clark states that his Revolutionary Pension File Number is S5600.

The correct birth year is in question war records showing 1759, family records are said to show 1754.

Served in South Carolina Line under "MARION AT BATTLE OF COWPENS" during the American Revolution as Spy for North and South Carolina. Also served under his father Col. Elijah Isaacs in North Carolina.

Order # 3374 AA 3957 1/2 pp Li #19 Contingent Account. papers by legislature Nov 23, 1795.
He first joined the American Army as a private in District 96 in S. C. in Sept. 1776. The year before he married and had twin sons born Feb. 11, 1775. He named the twins Elijah and Elisha. He stated that he served for two years as a spy for the American Army against the Indians. He served several three-month terms in both the N.C. and S.C. militia. He served under his father [Elijah Isaacks, also a revolutionary war soldier] at least one term. He was discharged by General McDowell at Quaker Meadows in Burke Co., N.C.

In 1788 he lived in Franklin CO. Ga. It was here the Indians attacked his home and destroyed everything. His wife and children escaped without harm.

Samuel and Mary were also said to be the parents of Elisha Isaacs (twin to Elijah born 1775), Mary Isaacs (who married Jacob VAN ZANDT), Elizabeth Isaacs [Steve Moody shows she married a BROWN], Rebecca Isaacs [Steve Moody shows she married a WALTON], Jane Isaacs and Abigail Isaacs (who married a YOUNG).




(Research):

Census Listings:

Census of Jasper, Municipality of Bevil
Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. 85, pp. 247-300
Enumerated May 1, 1835.
Elijah ISAACS Married Farmer age 62
Hester DONOHO, " age 59
Andrew ISAACS, age 18
Alfred ISAACS, age 15

1850 Census
Texas, Jasper County, No. 44
Enumerated 17 Sep 1850
Stamped 220
4-4
Elijah Isaacks 75 M Farmer 3000 SC
James Morgan 22 M Laborer NC

Elijah married Esther Donaho about 1797. Esther was born about 1780 in South Carolina; died on 14 Sep 1849 in Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John W. Clark shows her as a daugher of William Donoho and Esther Daniel.