Muscogee-Spalding-Monroe County GaArchives News.....Harrison Clarke and Hardy Jordan - 1887 September 9 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 October 16, 2004, 10:37 pm The Marion County Patriot The Marion County Patriot, No. 36 September 9, 1887 Page Four Two Old Negroes Griffin was visited last week by Harrison Clarke, an aged negro who had been up there to see his brother, Hardy Jordan, who lives just below the carshed in that city. Harrison Clarke is a pretty good age himself, being 106 years old, but his brother is 116 and unable to be about. Harrison was on his way home to Muscogee County, Edwards District, and may have reached there if his large, sore feet have not prevented. He was the slave of Joshua Jordan, of Monroe County, and was at one time at Louisville, when he saw Gen. Washington, who came to the then State capital soon after the war for Independence. He saw some thing of war himself as a drummer boy during the Florida Indian war, though a fourth Indian by birth. Before emancipation he was the overseer and valet of his master. He can pick 150 pounds of cotton a day on an average, old as he is, and is a champion wrestler, his favorite trick being the “Flying Sallie.” Although an anti-Prohibitionist in principle, he never took a drink, neither did he ever take a chew of tobacco or a bath. He has had seven wives and thirty-three children, including six lots of twins. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee/newspapers/nw1591harrison.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb