tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-06-11:913346 A never ending journey... dee_burris 2011-08-22T00:50:37Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-06-11:913346:87480 2011-08-22T00:47:38Z 2011-08-22T00:50:37Z public 0 I know who he was.<br /><br />He was my brother-in-law's maternal great grandfather.<br /><br />And that's it. That's what anyone knows.<br /><br />He married Mary Frances Edmonson, daughter of Jonas Smith Edmonson and Phoebe Harris.<br /><br />They probably got married in Pulaski County, AR - most likely Little Rock, since that's where the Edmonsons had been living for a while - around 1888.<br /><br />I can't find a marriage record.<br /><br />David and Mary Frances had one daughter, Helen Phoebe Jordon, who was born in Little Rock on 18 Aug 1889.<br /><br />The family story is that David messed around on Mary Frances, and her father forbade him to return to the family home.<br /><br />So he didn't.<br /><br />The 1900 census says Mary Frances was a widow. The family said that was the cover story for an embarassing failed marriage.<br /><br />But after the 1889 Arkansas Press Little Rock City Directory, I can't find David Childress Jordon - any where. In 1889, he was working as a clerk for the Bank of Little Rock.<br /><br /><a href="http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/sharpchick/Family%20photos/Historic%20Documents/?action=view&amp;current=ArkansasPressCityDir1889.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/sharpchick/Family%20photos/Historic%20Documents/ArkansasPressCityDir1889.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></img></a><br /><br />He was there in the 1887 Gazette City Directory for Little Rock.<br /><br /><a href="http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/sharpchick/Family%20photos/Historic%20Documents/?action=view&amp;current=GazetteCityDirectory1887.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/sharpchick/Family%20photos/Historic%20Documents/GazetteCityDirectory1887.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></img></a><br /><br />And then, he was gone...<br /><br />I've looked for military records, remarriages, and everything I can think of...I use 1860 as his date of birth, because 1861 was when Mary Frances was born. But I don't know if that's right, or even close.<br /><br />I just hate it when they go ~poof~<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dee_burris&ditemid=87480" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments