Thomas County  Georgia Obits - Jordan family

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John Jordan 
"Southern Enterprise, The", Friday, August 30, 1867,
John Jordan departed this life on the 13th instant,
in hope of a blessed immortality, aged 87 years.  He
was born and raised in Wayne county, N. C., and came
to Georgia in 1807. He married and settled in
Jefferson county, where he lived until the winter of
1829, when he moved to Lowndes county, Ga. In 1833 he
moved to Thomas county, where he remained until the
day of his death. He joined the M.E. Church in 1808,
of which he was an acceptable member, until death
removed him to the church triumphant in Heaven. For
the last three years his sight had failed him so that
he could not read, but he was in the habit of having
the Scriptures read to him daily; frequently getting
happy while it was read to him. He longed to depart
from this world and be forever at rest.

He leaves four sons and one daughter and many
grandchildren and friends to mourn his loss. But they
feel confident that their loss is his eternal gain.
"Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." J. G. J.
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Rebecca (Heath) Jordan

Brent H. Holcomb, "Marriage  and Death Notices from
the Southern Christian Advocate, Vol. I, 1837-1860", 
(Published by Southern Historical Press), Page
496..., Issue of February 18, 1858...Mrs. Rebecca Ann
Jourdan, wife of brother Isaac G. Jourdan, and
daughter of the late Henry Heath, Esq., died in
Thomas Co., Ga., on the 29th January in her 40th
year...
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Amanda (Clardy) Jordan
"The Southern Enterprise" - Wednesday, August 14,
1861 - Deceased, Mrs. Amanda M. Jordan, wife of
Thomas P. Jordan, and daughter of Thomas M. and Annah
Clardy, was born 10th March, 1818, in Hory District,
S. C., and died in Thomas County, Ga., July 31st,
1861 - aged 43 years, 4 months and 21 days.  In early
life she sought and found peace with God and joined
the Methodist Church. Since then her devotedness to
Christ has been constantly seen both at home and
abroad. For a year or more past she had been troubled
with a cancer on her jaw, which gave her much trouble
and pain - her sufferings were inexplicable - it had
been wasting her strength - she could but scarcely
drink anything for some time before she died. 

Her kindred and friends have mourned as they saw the
true Christian and the thoughtful wife, the
affectionate mother and the attentive neighbor,
gradually passing away under such sore affliction. 

She was the mother of ten children, four of whom are
members of the same church of which she was. She had
six sons and four daughters whom she has left with
their grief stricken father. Her love for her husband
and her children made her for some time anxious to
live, but as the disease advanced the spirit of
submission triumphed, and she committed them all into
the hands of God. At another time during her illness
a cloud seemed to be upon her spirit - she had not
the full assurance of her acceptance with God, but
assisted, however, by the counsels and prayers of
pious friends it passed away, and she felt again the
peace that passeth understanding and the joy which is
full of glory. For several weeks before she died she
would call her husband and oldest children to the bed
and tell them to manage for the best, that she would
not be with them long. She was perfectly reconciled
to die, and knew her friends and family to the very
last - talking to them and asking for anything she
wanted. Her last expressions were full of hope, and
sweetly as a star sinks to rest, her spirit passed
away. Sorrow not as others who have no hope but
joyfully join the heavenly choir. Mother, dear, how
deep we miss thee, Sorrow's pangs can best express;
Thus to see cold death embrace thee, Doth embitter
our distress. ------------


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