[
690]
Rock Hill graded schools.
He was married, in 1869, to Ellen, daughter of
Gov. James H. Adams.
She died in 1873, leaving a son and a daughter, and in 1882 he married Laura E., daughter of
R. P. McMahon, of
Alabama.
She died in 1887, leaving a son.
George Marshall Jordan was born in
Abbeville county, S. C., being the third of fifteen children of Jonathan and Mary Miles (
Marshall)
Jordan.
He joined
Orr's regiment of rifles at its organization, as a non-commissioned officer, and was honorably discharged after a year's service on account of ill health, from that time to the close of the war serving in the commissary department in gathering up supplies for the Confederate government.
He became a farmer in
Abbeville county after the war, and later became an orange grower in
Florida, in which State he died in 1885.
A younger brother of
Mr. Jordan, John M., was a Confederate soldier, his record appearing elsewhere in this work.
A still younger brother is
Lambert W., of
Seneca, who was too young to serve in the war, being but fifteen years of age when the war closed.
He, however, was making full preparations to enter the service when the surrender took place, and had the war lasted a few days longer his name would have been enrolled among the
Confederate veterans.
He was born in
Abbeville county, July 4, 1849.
He located in
Seneca in 1875 and is now a member of the firm of
M. W. Coleman & Co., merchants of that place.
He was married, in 1872, to
Miss Eleanor Brownlee Merriman, of
Greenwood, and they have five children, four sons and one daughter.
One of the sons,
Lambert W. Jordan, a graduate of
West Point, is now a lieutenant in the First United States infantry, and served through the
Spanish war, participating in the battle of
Santiago.
The father of George and
John M. Jordan was too old to serve in the
Confederate war, but he aided the
Confederacy in every way possible, furnishing of his means and resources liberally without solicitation.
There was probably not a man in
South Carolina who did not serve in the war who was more ardent in the support of Confederate government than
Jonathan Jordan.
The freedom with which he gave and the unstinted manner in which he helped the poor and needy in those troublous times, is still remembered in the community in which he lived and died.
