Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Melinda Pickrell Jordan on December 14, 1820. Father of Caroline Jordan, Alfred Jordan, Dudley Jordan, and Matilda Jordan. Farmer in Fleming County in 1850 and 1860. Owned one enslaved person in 1860.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 338. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 2, p. 53. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 2, p. 7. Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, comp., Marriage Records of Fleming County, Kentucky, 1798-1851 (Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, c1965), 1820 (accessed via Ancestry).

Citation

Jordan, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206874 (November 12, 2026).

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E. Logan et al. to James F. Robinson

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