My Genealogy Hound

Jacob Jordon is the son of Joseph and Catherine (Faninger) Jordon both natives of Germany. The mother had been formerly married to a man by the name of Faninger, by whom she had three children. By her second marriage two children were born: Jacob and a sister, deceased. The father was a tiller of the soil, and served eight years under Napoleon, going to Moscow on that fearful Russian campaign. In 1832 he and family came to America, landed at New York, and after spending about five years in that State, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and at New Orleans, located in Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., and here passed the last of their days. He was sixty-five years of age and she eighty-four at the time of their death. He was a Democrat in politics, and both were members of the Catholic Church. Jacob Jordon was born in Alsace in 1814 and while growing up learned the wheelwright’s trade, though he never worked at it much. He remained with his parents until they moved to Ste. Genevieve County. In 1840 he married Miss Catherine Kerchner, a native of Baden Germany, born in 1817 and who came to America with her parents, Michael A. and Catherine (Hoffner) Kerchner, in 1832, and located in Ste. Genevieve County. Her parents were born in Baden, Germany, were married there and reared a family of five children, two of whom were born after reaching America. Her father was a stone-mason by trade, but, after coming to this country followed farming. Both parents died in Ste. Genevieve County, he at the age of fifty-five, and she at the age of eighty-two. Both were members of the Catholic Church. In 1848 Mr. Jordon and wife moved to Gasconade County, and entered the land on which they now live, which consists of 1,152 acres, all the result of his own efforts. To them were born nine children, eight of whom are living. He is a Democrat in politics, and both he and wife are members of the Catholic Church.