General Notes

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If not himself born in Virginia, Captain Reuben Jordan's family claimed
descent from Pocohontas, the princess daughter of Powhatan. The given
names of Reuben's father and grandfather are not known. The grandfather
Jordan married a Miss Maurice of Virginia, by whom he had only one son,
the father of Reuben. The grandfathers on both sides of the house were
Revolutionary soldiers.
Reuben's father married Miss Bettie Elmore, a sister of General
Elmore, the progenitor of the illustrious family of Elmores whose lives
are so closely interwoven into the history of Alabama. Reuben with his
father moved to South Carolina where Reuben grew up to manhood and became
captain of a company of South Carolinians, in the War of 1812.
In 1818, Reuben moved from South Carolina to Montgomery County, just
below Wetumpka. He brought with him his wife, a Miss Dillard, his
children and a good many Negroes of his uncle, John Archer Elmore. He was
to make a crop preparatory to the future coming of the uncle to Alabama.
Where he settled on the river was so malarial that after some years he
moved to Autauga. Here he remained until the Spring of 1835, when he
removed to Coosa County.
The Jordan family of old Autauga intermarried with the Bozemans, the
Cains, the Bensons, Fitzpatricks, Zeiglers, Ruckers, and Booths, and
others. A brother of of Reuben Jordan once lived in the county, who
looked more like an Indian than a white man and possessed Indian traits
as well. Reuben Jordan's first wife died and he married a second time in
1830, to Ann Spivey, a daughter of Aaron Spivey, near Rocky Mount in
Autauga County.
Reuben Jordan was a rugged pioneer and deserves a place not only in
Autauga's history but in that of Coosa, as well.
[Source: Most of the material for this sketch was taken from George
Brewer's The History of Coosa County, published in the Alabama Historical
Quarterly, Summer Issue, 1942, page 278-281.]
"Chapter III - THE EARLY SETTLERS
Fort Jackson continued to be a garrison post for some time, but the
rich fertile regions about it served to draw many settlers to its
vicinity. It was there, until 1818, that the newly created county of
Montgomery held it courts. A courthouse and a post office were built
there. A new town was laid off just above the Montgomery County
courthouse; this town was called Jackson. While the town did not prosper
and its influence soon waned, it did become the center of a thriving
farming territory. For years there continued to be an established post
office at Jackson, with Reuben Jordan as postmaster; he had fought with
Andrew Jackson in the battle of Horseshoe Bend." (1)
(1)  Elizabeth Porter, A History of Wetumpka (Published by Wetumpka, AL
Chamber of Commerce; October, 1957), p. 17.   Researched by Ron Bridges
on 24 Mar 2003.
Reuben was living in Montgomery Co., AL as of Oct. 1821.
Autauga County, Alabama Index To Land Records
NAME 1                      TRANS NAME 2                      DATE BK   
BEG. PAGE
JORDAN, REUBEN     from CROMMELIN, CHAS.     01 Nov 1838    DB         254
JORDAN, REUBEN     from FOREMAN, JESSE         28 APR 1834     D 160
"At the August term of 1838, John McMillan, James Prather, Reuben Jordan,
Nathan Bozeman, Edward Ogletree, Joseph Tuck, and Albert Crumpler were
appointed reviewers to open a road from the southwest corner of Section
18, of Township 23, Range 21. to the nearest and best point so as to
intersect the Sockapatoy Road at Nixburg."(1)
"To the north and east, and further off from Nixburg, the lands continued
to be good and induced a number of substantial men to settle upon them.
among the very early ones were Rev. James F. Edens (a preacher of strong
convictions, and bitter  against the mission movements), Mr. Reuben
Jordan and his sons (Dr. John A. and