Irene was the eighth of eight known children born in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. (Johnson Co, Ark was created in Nov 1833, about 7 months after her birth.)
Reportedly, her paternal grandmother, at Bryan Station, to wit: "Jemima Suggett Johnson was the first to suggest bringing water, and led the brave women to the spring when it was surrounded by Indians in ambuscade, thus making possible the defense of Bryant(sic) Station. With her was her daughter, Elizabeth, aged ten, who carried a pig in. When the fort was attacked a lighted arrow from an Indian bow fell into the cradle of her baby brother, Richard, but Elizabeth extinguished the flames, and he lived to become Vice-President of the United States. "
[SOURCE: The Lexington Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, has built a memorial wall around this historic spring.]
Irene m1 Dr. John Augustus Jordan on 3 NOV 1852 in Desha Co, Arkansas. Dr. Jordan was born in Tennessee, graduated from medical school and came from New Orleans to Arkansas around 1840. He purchased a great deal of land from Frenchman Joseph Deruisseaux, staffing it with slaves purchased in New Orleans and creating what was called Southbend Plantation, which was up the Arkansas River, 10 miles west of Arkansas Post.
Irene was a member of 'The Family' and was the youngest sister of Arkansas United States Congressman, Robert Ward Johnson. He filled the vacated senate seat upon the 1853 resignation of Solon Borland. Sen. Borland resigned to become the first Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Central America under Pres. Franklin Pierce. Later, Johnson served as a Confederate States Senator and eventually donated his very extensive law library to the new 1873 created Law School at Saint Johns' College of Arkansas. Irene's uncle, Robert Mentor Johnson, served as Vice President 1837-1841) under America's first native born president, Martin Van Buren. He is credited with the 1813 killing of the great Shawnee Indian Chief Tecumseh.
The Jordans began construction of their stately manor house using slave labor, following December 1853 birth of their first child. It was described as: "...at the Arkansas, now Lincoln County river landing of South Bend, a stately mansion being of Georgia southern architecture with windows, ornate iron railings and other manufactured items sent from Louisville, Kentucky. Nine chimneys were constructed between rooms, providing six-foot high fireplaces for each room. The smallest room was said to be 20 feet square. The opulence continued with sophisticated arabesques and swanky furniture from New Orleans, first facing the Arkansas river, then a levee."
One report was they had 5,000 acres but had only 1,500 acres under cultivation by 1860 for cotton. The land was subdivided and auctioned off ninety years later on 27 January 1950, after once being owned in 1915 by Governor of Illinois, Frank O Lowden(1917-1921.) The mansion was destroyed by fire during the 1950's, but a number of its salvaged bricks formed the construction of a fashionable restaurant on Dollarway Road in 1958. [Source in part: James W Leslie, The Land of Cypress and Pine—More Southeast Arkansas History, 1976.]
[NOTE: Sometime before 1909 the Arkansas River was north of the field on Diamond Point and that when the Douglas Cut-off occurred, the River built up pressure and cut across into a chute shown on the 1829 survey in the NW-¼ of Section 34, leaving a portion of the so-called "little field" of South Bend Plantation intact on the north side of the Arkansas River. South Bend Plantation (once reported with 5,000 acres) in Lincoln county was finally subdivided and offered at auction January 27, 1950.
1860 Census - Douglass Township, Arkansas, now Lincoln County, Arkansas: Irene age 26, husband and 3 children, $144,000 real estate and $4,170 personal wealth.
Reportedly, there were about 90 families making their homes on the fertile land of Douglass Township, as of 28 March 1871 in northeast Lincoln County. Unlike neighboring Arkansas Township, the 82 voters voted 100% for convention. Yet many planters, their sons and other eligible men of southern birth neither voted nor joined the Army.
Irene m2 Dr. Charles Minor Taylor on 18 FEB 1868 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Known m1 Children
Matilda "Maude" Jordan b: 22 Dec 1853 Douglass township, Arkansas, now Lincoln county, Arkansas. [ Portrait at right]
Robert Ward Jordan b: 12 DEC 1855 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas. [ portrait at right]
Mary Johnson Jordon b: 28 FEB 1858 Douglass township, Arkansas, now Lincoln county, Arkansas.
Irene Jordan b: 6 AUG 1860 Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky.
Known m2 Children
Maude Johnson Taylor b: 4 AUG 1872 South Bend, Lincoln Co, Arkansas [formerly Douglass Co; information from JUN 1890 passport.]
Reportedly, her paternal grandmother, at Bryan Station, to wit: "Jemima Suggett Johnson was the first to suggest bringing water, and led the brave women to the spring when it was surrounded by Indians in ambuscade, thus making possible the defense of Bryant(sic) Station. With her was her daughter, Elizabeth, aged ten, who carried a pig in. When the fort was attacked a lighted arrow from an Indian bow fell into the cradle of her baby brother, Richard, but Elizabeth extinguished the flames, and he lived to become Vice-President of the United States. "
[SOURCE: The Lexington Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, has built a memorial wall around this historic spring.]
Irene m1 Dr. John Augustus Jordan on 3 NOV 1852 in Desha Co, Arkansas. Dr. Jordan was born in Tennessee, graduated from medical school and came from New Orleans to Arkansas around 1840. He purchased a great deal of land from Frenchman Joseph Deruisseaux, staffing it with slaves purchased in New Orleans and creating what was called Southbend Plantation, which was up the Arkansas River, 10 miles west of Arkansas Post.
Irene was a member of 'The Family' and was the youngest sister of Arkansas United States Congressman, Robert Ward Johnson. He filled the vacated senate seat upon the 1853 resignation of Solon Borland. Sen. Borland resigned to become the first Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Central America under Pres. Franklin Pierce. Later, Johnson served as a Confederate States Senator and eventually donated his very extensive law library to the new 1873 created Law School at Saint Johns' College of Arkansas. Irene's uncle, Robert Mentor Johnson, served as Vice President 1837-1841) under America's first native born president, Martin Van Buren. He is credited with the 1813 killing of the great Shawnee Indian Chief Tecumseh.
The Jordans began construction of their stately manor house using slave labor, following December 1853 birth of their first child. It was described as: "...at the Arkansas, now Lincoln County river landing of South Bend, a stately mansion being of Georgia southern architecture with windows, ornate iron railings and other manufactured items sent from Louisville, Kentucky. Nine chimneys were constructed between rooms, providing six-foot high fireplaces for each room. The smallest room was said to be 20 feet square. The opulence continued with sophisticated arabesques and swanky furniture from New Orleans, first facing the Arkansas river, then a levee."
One report was they had 5,000 acres but had only 1,500 acres under cultivation by 1860 for cotton. The land was subdivided and auctioned off ninety years later on 27 January 1950, after once being owned in 1915 by Governor of Illinois, Frank O Lowden(1917-1921.) The mansion was destroyed by fire during the 1950's, but a number of its salvaged bricks formed the construction of a fashionable restaurant on Dollarway Road in 1958. [Source in part: James W Leslie, The Land of Cypress and Pine—More Southeast Arkansas History, 1976.]
[NOTE: Sometime before 1909 the Arkansas River was north of the field on Diamond Point and that when the Douglas Cut-off occurred, the River built up pressure and cut across into a chute shown on the 1829 survey in the NW-¼ of Section 34, leaving a portion of the so-called "little field" of South Bend Plantation intact on the north side of the Arkansas River. South Bend Plantation (once reported with 5,000 acres) in Lincoln county was finally subdivided and offered at auction January 27, 1950.
1860 Census - Douglass Township, Arkansas, now Lincoln County, Arkansas: Irene age 26, husband and 3 children, $144,000 real estate and $4,170 personal wealth.
Reportedly, there were about 90 families making their homes on the fertile land of Douglass Township, as of 28 March 1871 in northeast Lincoln County. Unlike neighboring Arkansas Township, the 82 voters voted 100% for convention. Yet many planters, their sons and other eligible men of southern birth neither voted nor joined the Army.
Irene m2 Dr. Charles Minor Taylor on 18 FEB 1868 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Known m1 Children
Matilda "Maude" Jordan b: 22 Dec 1853 Douglass township, Arkansas, now Lincoln county, Arkansas. [ Portrait at right]
Robert Ward Jordan b: 12 DEC 1855 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas. [ portrait at right]
Mary Johnson Jordon b: 28 FEB 1858 Douglass township, Arkansas, now Lincoln county, Arkansas.
Irene Jordan b: 6 AUG 1860 Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky.
Known m2 Children
Maude Johnson Taylor b: 4 AUG 1872 South Bend, Lincoln Co, Arkansas [formerly Douglass Co; information from JUN 1890 passport.]
Irene was the eighth of eight known children born in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. (Johnson Co, Ark was created in Nov 1833, about 7 months after her birth.)
Reportedly, her paternal grandmother, at Bryan Station, to wit: "Jemima Suggett Johnson was the first to suggest bringing water, and led the brave women to the spring when it was surrounded by Indians in ambuscade, thus making possible the defense of Bryant(sic) Station. With her was her daughter, Elizabeth, aged ten, who carried a pig in. When the fort was attacked a lighted arrow from an Indian bow fell into the cradle of her baby brother, Richard, but Elizabeth extinguished the flames, and he lived to become Vice-President of the United States. "
[SOURCE: The Lexington Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, has built a memorial wall around this historic spring.]
Irene m1 Dr. John Augustus Jordan on 3 NOV 1852 in Desha Co, Arkansas. Dr. Jordan was born in Tennessee, graduated from medical school and came from New Orleans to Arkansas around 1840. He purchased a great deal of land from Frenchman Joseph Deruisseaux, staffing it with slaves purchased in New Orleans and creating what was called Southbend Plantation, which was up the Arkansas River, 10 miles west of Arkansas Post.
Irene was a member of 'The Family' and was the youngest sister of Arkansas United States Congressman, Robert Ward Johnson. He filled the vacated senate seat upon the 1853 resignation of Solon Borland. Sen. Borland resigned to become the first Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Central America under Pres. Franklin Pierce. Later, Johnson served as a Confederate States Senator and eventually donated his very extensive law library to the new 1873 created Law School at Saint Johns' College of Arkansas. Irene's uncle, Robert Mentor Johnson, served as Vice President 1837-1841) under America's first native born president, Martin Van Buren. He is credited with the 1813 killing of the great Shawnee Indian Chief Tecumseh.
The Jordans began construction of their stately manor house using slave labor, following December 1853 birth of their first child. It was described as: "...at the Arkansas, now Lincoln County river landing of South Bend, a stately mansion being of Georgia southern architecture with windows, ornate iron railings and other manufactured items sent from Louisville, Kentucky. Nine chimneys were constructed between rooms, providing six-foot high fireplaces for each room. The smallest room was said to be 20 feet square. The opulence continued with sophisticated arabesques and swanky furniture from New Orleans, first facing the Arkansas river, then a levee."
One report was they had 5,000 acres but had only 1,500 acres under cultivation by 1860 for cotton. The land was subdivided and auctioned off ninety years later on 27 January 1950, after once being owned in 1915 by Governor of Illinois, Frank O Lowden(1917-1921.) The mansion was destroyed by fire during the 1950's, but a number of its salvaged bricks formed the construction of a fashionable restaurant on Dollarway Road in 1958. [Source in part: James W Leslie, The Land of Cypress and Pine—More Southeast Arkansas History, 1976.]
[NOTE: Sometime before 1909 the Arkansas River was north of the field on Diamond Point and that when the Douglas Cut-off occurred, the River built up pressure and cut across into a chute shown on the 1829 survey in the NW-¼ of Section 34, leaving a portion of the so-called "little field" of South Bend Plantation intact on the north side of the Arkansas River. South Bend Plantation (once reported with 5,000 acres) in Lincoln county was finally subdivided and offered at auction January 27, 1950.
1860 Census - Douglass Township, Arkansas, now Lincoln County, Arkansas: Irene age 26, husband and 3 children, $144,000 real estate and $4,170 personal wealth.
Reportedly, there were about 90 families making their homes on the fertile land of Douglass Township, as of 28 March 1871 in northeast Lincoln County. Unlike neighboring Arkansas Township, the 82 voters voted 100% for convention. Yet many planters, their sons and other eligible men of southern birth neither voted nor joined the Army.
Irene m2 Dr. Charles Minor Taylor on 18 FEB 1868 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Known m1 Children
Matilda "Maude" Jordan b: 22 Dec 1853 Douglass township, Arkansas, now Lincoln county, Arkansas. [ Portrait at right]
Robert Ward Jordan b: 12 DEC 1855 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas. [ portrait at right]
Mary Johnson Jordon b: 28 FEB 1858 Douglass township, Arkansas, now Lincoln county, Arkansas.
Irene Jordan b: 6 AUG 1860 Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky.
Known m2 Children
Maude Johnson Taylor b: 4 AUG 1872 South Bend, Lincoln Co, Arkansas [formerly Douglass Co; information from JUN 1890 passport.]
Reportedly, her paternal grandmother, at Bryan Station, to wit: "Jemima Suggett Johnson was the first to suggest bringing water, and led the brave women to the spring when it was surrounded by Indians in ambuscade, thus making possible the defense of Bryant(sic) Station. With her was her daughter, Elizabeth, aged ten, who carried a pig in. When the fort was attacked a lighted arrow from an Indian bow fell into the cradle of her baby brother, Richard, but Elizabeth extinguished the flames, and he lived to become Vice-President of the United States. "
[SOURCE: The Lexington Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, has built a memorial wall around this historic spring.]
Irene m1 Dr. John Augustus Jordan on 3 NOV 1852 in Desha Co, Arkansas. Dr. Jordan was born in Tennessee, graduated from medical school and came from New Orleans to Arkansas around 1840. He purchased a great deal of land from Frenchman Joseph Deruisseaux, staffing it with slaves purchased in New Orleans and creating what was called Southbend Plantation, which was up the Arkansas River, 10 miles west of Arkansas Post.
Irene was a member of 'The Family' and was the youngest sister of Arkansas United States Congressman, Robert Ward Johnson. He filled the vacated senate seat upon the 1853 resignation of Solon Borland. Sen. Borland resigned to become the first Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Central America under Pres. Franklin Pierce. Later, Johnson served as a Confederate States Senator and eventually donated his very extensive law library to the new 1873 created Law School at Saint Johns' College of Arkansas. Irene's uncle, Robert Mentor Johnson, served as Vice President 1837-1841) under America's first native born president, Martin Van Buren. He is credited with the 1813 killing of the great Shawnee Indian Chief Tecumseh.
The Jordans began construction of their stately manor house using slave labor, following December 1853 birth of their first child. It was described as: "...at the Arkansas, now Lincoln County river landing of South Bend, a stately mansion being of Georgia southern architecture with windows, ornate iron railings and other manufactured items sent from Louisville, Kentucky. Nine chimneys were constructed between rooms, providing six-foot high fireplaces for each room. The smallest room was said to be 20 feet square. The opulence continued with sophisticated arabesques and swanky furniture from New Orleans, first facing the Arkansas river, then a levee."
One report was they had 5,000 acres but had only 1,500 acres under cultivation by 1860 for cotton. The land was subdivided and auctioned off ninety years later on 27 January 1950, after once being owned in 1915 by Governor of Illinois, Frank O Lowden(1917-1921.) The mansion was destroyed by fire during the 1950's, but a number of its salvaged bricks formed the construction of a fashionable restaurant on Dollarway Road in 1958. [Source in part: James W Leslie, The Land of Cypress and Pine—More Southeast Arkansas History, 1976.]
[NOTE: Sometime before 1909 the Arkansas River was north of the field on Diamond Point and that when the Douglas Cut-off occurred, the River built up pressure and cut across into a chute shown on the 1829 survey in the NW-¼ of Section 34, leaving a portion of the so-called "little field" of South Bend Plantation intact on the north side of the Arkansas River. South Bend Plantation (once reported with 5,000 acres) in Lincoln county was finally subdivided and offered at auction January 27, 1950.
1860 Census - Douglass Township, Arkansas, now Lincoln County, Arkansas: Irene age 26, husband and 3 children, $144,000 real estate and $4,170 personal wealth.
Reportedly, there were about 90 families making their homes on the fertile land of Douglass Township, as of 28 March 1871 in northeast Lincoln County. Unlike neighboring Arkansas Township, the 82 voters voted 100% for convention. Yet many planters, their sons and other eligible men of southern birth neither voted nor joined the Army.
Irene m2 Dr. Charles Minor Taylor on 18 FEB 1868 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Known m1 Children
Matilda "Maude" Jordan b: 22 Dec 1853 Douglass township, Arkansas, now Lincoln county, Arkansas. [ Portrait at right]
Robert Ward Jordan b: 12 DEC 1855 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas. [ portrait at right]
Mary Johnson Jordon b: 28 FEB 1858 Douglass township, Arkansas, now Lincoln county, Arkansas.
Irene Jordan b: 6 AUG 1860 Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky.
Known m2 Children
Maude Johnson Taylor b: 4 AUG 1872 South Bend, Lincoln Co, Arkansas [formerly Douglass Co; information from JUN 1890 passport.]
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