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JORDAN, WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER, receiver U. S. land office and farmer, was born July 10, 1834, at Talbotton, Talbot County, Ga.; son of Thomas George and Mary Lovicy (Chambliss) Jordan, the former a native of North Carolina, who later lived successively at Warren-ton, Skitoway Island, Clinton, and Talbotton, Ga., and Society Hill, Eufaula, and Midway, a farmer by occupation who died in 1872 at the age of eighty-five years; grandson of William and Anne (Medlock) Jordan, and of Christopher and Mary (Taylor) Chambliss, all of War-renton, Warren County, Ga. Both William Jordan and Christopher Chambliss were Revolutionary soldiers. Mary Taylor was a relative of President Zachary Taylor, the name coming into the family through the mother of the president, a Miss Zachary. The Chambliss family is thought to have sprung from French ancestors.
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History of Alabama and Dictionary Biography
Montgomery, Alabama, US
Sat, Jan 01, 1921
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