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- Served in F Company 54th VA Infantry, prisoner in Camp Douglas, Chicago 11 months.
Caddall/Jordan/Moore/Bear Bible
Marriages
A.L. (Addison Logan) Jordan and Sarah Frances Caddall were married September 30 1874
R.R. (Robert Rolen) Moore and Ellen S. Jordan were married March 18 1897 Roger Jones Bear and Mary Jordan Moore married November 29 1921
Births
Addison Logan Jordan born March 24th 1846
Sarah F. Caddall born November 4th 1845
Horace Glen T. Jordan born December 23 1877
Thomas Jordan born November 2st 1908
Early Addison Jordan born 2nd November 1911
Mary Jordan Moore June 22, 1898
Sarah Elizabeth Moore born March 16, 1900
Robert Rolen Moore born March 8, 1902
Deaths
Sarah C. Jordan died April 4th 1926
Addison Logan Jordan died May 6th, 1926
Janie Early Jordan died February 1, 1947
G.T. Jordan Jr. died April 9, 1952
Glen Thomas Jordan Sr. died January 17, 1956
Early Addison Jordan died November 12, 1969
Robert Rolen Moore died July6, 1927
Ellen Jordan Moore died October 4, 1962
Paul Jordan Smith died June 17, 1971
Robert Rolen Moore III died September 24, 1978
Lula Vermillion Moore died February 28, 1976
Roger Jones Bear died October 27, 1976
Mary Moore Bear died April 21, 1987
Transcribed in original form by Tami Ramsey December 5, 1998 Submitted by The Wilderness Road Regional Museum http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapulask/wrrm/
Addison Jordan didn't believe in "putting money in the ground". He thought it should grow and he spent the last year of his life making arrangements for his philosophy to be carried out. The Pulaski County farmer and active church worker died on May 6, 1925 and during an afternoon funeral he was laid to rest in the Thornspring Cemetery beneath the stone he had made. In the basement of Moore's Wholesale store in Pulaski, Jordan painstakingly carved his eulogy on a slab of wet cement with an old nail. These are Jordan's words as they remain on his stone "1846 - A.L. Jordan - 1925, Sarah C. Jordan ? 1925. The difference in the cost of the average burial and the burial of A.L. Jordan is $250 which will go to the Greenville Orphanage, Tenn. to grow and expand while I sleep. Home sweet home, heavenly home. We are going there, to see father, mother, friends and others who have gone before. There in the land of transcendent glory to shout victory forever and ever. "Co.F" - 54th Va. Regiment- Do right and right will stand by you when the mountains are melted down."
Bruce Helton of Cliff St., Pulaski, remembers Jordan and the preparations he made for his own funeral. Helton said that in addition to making his own stone; he had his coffin made. "The whole thing cost him about $25", Helton said. Helton accompanied Jordan to Brookmont to pick-up his coffin. They took a wagon drawn by mules and when they arrived Jordan got in the coffin and laid down to make sure it fit. Cid Cleman charged Jordan $12 to make the coffin from white oak which Jordan had cut, years before while he was in the saw mill business. The coffin was stored in Jordan's home until he died. A veteran of the Civil War, Jordan had told Helton he did not mind dying. His wife died a month before and "he seemed to go down from then on," Helton remembers. Miss Sarah Moore, Mrs. Roger J. Bear and Rolen R. Moore are his grandchildren.
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1846 - 1926 (80 years)
