Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Jordan, Thomas S. May 6, 1894
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Clay County Advance
Mr. Thomas Jordan was born Macon, Ga, on the 3rd day of January 1832. and died 
in this place on Sunday, the 6th of May 1894, at 15 minutes past nine o'clock in 
the evening. On the 10th day of October 1859. he was married at Wedowee. 
Alabama, to Miss Mary Creel, who survives to mourn his death. Husband and wife 
were never more truly devoted to each other than were they, and their days to 
the time of his death, were passed peaceful! and happily away, for more than 
sixteen years Mr. Jordan was a citizen of Clay County, and during all this time 
in our midst the weight of his influence has been on the ride of good morals and 
good Gouvernement. He united himself with the Baptist church in the vigor of his 
young manhood and lived an acceptable and devoted member until he was called to 
join the church triumphant. He. endured all the pains of his last illness with 
true Christian fortitude, no murmur escaped his lips, but express ed hi: 
submission to the will of his Heavenly Father, having not the least dread for 
the future. He closed his eyes in death, as if falling off into a quiet and 
peaceful sleep, to open them upon the radiant splendors of the New Jeru Salem. 
Mr. Jordan spent the greater part of his life as a printer, having worked on 
quite a number of papers in Alabama, Georgia and in other of the Southern 
States. He served an apprenticeship in the Advertiser office in 1847 and was 
foreman of the job office that printed the Code of Alabama in of 1852. He served 
on other papers at Eufaula, Auburn, Opelika, Wedowee, Goodwater and at Ashland. 
He was an uncompromising democrat and held the principles of his party to be 
greater than any man. Ha was a man of firm and sound convictions, whose 
character was above reproach, and in his death our county has lost a 
representative citizen. He was buried by the Masonic Fraternity, of which he was 
an acceptable member, in the Ashland cemetery, on Monday evening May 7th, in the 
presence of a large congregation, met to pay their last tribute of respect to 
their departed neighbor and friend Another good man is gone, peace be to his 
ashes. Ashland, Ala, May 10, 1891. 
A Friend.

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