Family View
Click on the Name to view more information. Click on arrows to move up and down pedigree.
----------------------------------------- Parents -----------------------------------------
1869:
977.138V29tco Trumbull County Birth Records 1867-1908
p. 461 - William Henry Jordan
born Dec 4, 1869 Weathersfield, Trumbull, OH
Male
Father: John W.
Mother: Nancy Jane Jordan
Vol 1 Page 90
1870 Census - Trumbull County, Ohio
Checked entire Weathersfield TWP manually and was unable to find John William and Nancy J. Jordan.
Checked indexes and was unable to find them by various names.
1880 Census - Trumbull County, Ohio
Weathersfield - 1 June 1880
3 4 [This appears to be the same place that William's parents lived in 1870]
Jordan, William W M 34 M Works in Coal Mine Penn Penn Penn
Nancy J. W F 35 Wife M Keeping House Penn Penn Penn
William H. W M 11 Son S Ohio Penn Penn
Sarah L. W F 8 Dau S Ohio Penn Penn
1900 Census - Trumbull County, Ohio
Weathersfield TWP - Mineral Ridge Village - 7 June 1900
195 200
Jordan, J. W. Head W M Nov 1845 54 M 35 Penn Penn Penn Farmer
Jennie Wife W F May 1849 51 M 35 2 2 Penn Penn Penn
Rider, Johnnie GSon W M Apr 1888 12 S Ohio Ohio Ohio [Rider is crossed out]
---, Frank GSon W M Nov 1889 10 S Ohio Ohio Ohio
McConnaughy, Eliz Sis W F May 1951 49 M 21 3 3 Penn Penn Penn
1904:
977.138V29tc Trumbull County Death Records 1867-1908
p. 217 Nancy Jane Jordan
Married
Died April 26, 1904 Mineral Ridge, Trumbull, OH
Age 58 Female
Occupation: Housekeeper
Cause of Death: Dropsy
Vol 3 Page 132
1907:
977.138V22L Trumbull County Ohio Marriage Index 1900-1925
p.187
Jorden, John W of Mineral Ridge to Mrs. Eliza Domer of Trumbull Co. 18 Jun 1907 Vol 16 Pg 14
1910 Census - Trumbull County, Ohio
Weathersfield TWP - 12 May 1910
262 262
Jordon, John W. Head M W 65 M2 2 Penn U.S. U.S. Farm Labor - Working Out
Catherine E. Wife F W 62 M4 2 1 Ohio Penn Penn
1920 Census - Trumbull County, Ohio
Weathersfield TWP - 27 Jan 1920
29 32
Jordan, John W. Head M W 75 M Penn Penn Penn
Ella Wife F W 40 M WVa WVa WVa
From the Ohio State Death Index:
John W. Jordan
Trumbull County
Volume 4622
Certificate 69291
Death Date: 12/29/1924
Grace Whale Meneely (grand-daughter of Ulysses G. Davis) shared the following letters:
New Philadelphia December the 22 1884
My Dear Cousin I thought i would take my pen in had to let you know that i am well at presant and
i hope that you are the same. i got them flowers and they was pretty and they had a pretty smell.
i would send you some flowers if i had any i had some but they are froze now i will send you a
card out of coffee and you must send me a peice of your dresses you come out a Christmas i would
like to go out there a Christmas but i can't so I will have to stay at home this Chrismas maw says
she would like to go out there but we can't we haft to stay at home i am going to school now and i
do not want to miss a day if i can help it we have a speeling day a tuesday and it is all untill
mounday week. this is all for this time Write soon Good By from Sarah Lucinda Jordon to Sue
Davis. do not send it in my name send it in paws name his name is john William jordon. Write soon
Good By
To New Philadelphia
Tuscawaras Co
Ohio
New Philadelphia December the 22
my dear cousin i take pen in had to Let you all know that i am well at presant hopin you are all
the same i got your letter and was glad to hear from you and hope you are all in good health when
this reaches you please state how uncle William is and aunt is getng along when this reaches you
all i wish you all a mery Christmas if i could would send you a christmas gift but as we are so far
apart i will haft to wait ontill i see please send me cousin hannah and maties address and i will
write them a letter as soon as i get their address i have been peacing a quilt and i have got one
done and comenced another one aunt sarah asend me the pieces of hers and aveious dress and i saved
them all up till i got enought to peace a quilt so i have begun it so i will heft to finish it i
would like to have some of your dress for in my quilt i have never got to town to get our pictures
taken but as soon as the roads are so bad but when they get better i will go down to get them
alltogether so you can see what we all look like there was another man shot here last Saturday night
the mad that shot him got clear for it was in self defence he broke the door open to get in the house
but nobody knows what for so i suppose he has paid the penalty of his crime Sarah got your letter
and the flouers that you sent here they was not much wilted when they got here so no more good by
from your cousin jennie jordon to Sue davis and all the family give my Love to all at home and
broad.
Nancy J. (Jennie) Jordan is originally Nancy J. Davis, daughter of John Davis, who Robert WIshart
says was brother to Sarah Ann Davis Wishart, sister of William Davis. You can see her in the 1860
census record in Mercer County, PA as 11 years old.
According to Robert Wishart, Samuel Wishart and Sarah raised Nancy because her father John Davis was
in the civil war and a prisoner in Anderson Prison.
I figured that there was a Wishart connection because Samuel and Sarah Wishart moved between Mercer
County, PA and Trumbull County, OH a number of times.
We find William Jordan living with his parents WIlliam and Sarah in Findley, Mercer County, PA in
1860. Same area as the Wisharts.
I was able to find the 1880 census record with William and Nancy J. having two children at the
time: William born 1869 and Susan L. born 1872.
Uncle William is likely to be our ancestor William Davis.
Aunt Sarah is Sarah Davis Wishart, sister to William Davis. Avieous is a alternate spelling of
Samuel Wishart and Sarah Davis Wishart's daughter Avies. In census records it has been spelled
Avius, Avias, and Avies.