His parents were Rix Jordan* and Sarah Ann Banks of Essex County, Virginia. Educated at Hampton Military Institute. He fought in the War Between the States [Civil War] enlisted April 1861 in Company G later Company D, First Virginia Infantry Regiment commanded by Col. Louis Williams, in Brig. Gen. James Kemper's Brigade, assigned to Major Gen. George Pickett's Division, of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's Corps, of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of General Robert E. Lee. Was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines on May 1862.Was again wounded at Gettysburg on July 3,1863 and again at Five Forks on March 31, 1865 where he was captured and sent to Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates and released in June 1865, after signing a Oath of Allegiance. Also fought in the engagements at Bull Run/Manassas, Fredricksburg, Suffolk, Richmond, Petersburg, Drewy's Bluff, Bermuda Hundred, and Dinwiddie's Courthouse.
After the war he was admitted into the practice of law in 1867. Became a member of the Memphis firm Randolph, Hammond and Jordan. In 1873 elected Shelby County Attorney, reelected to that post 7 times. Was also President of the Memphis School Board and was appointed district Referee in Bankruptcy. Was a Democratic delagate several times to national conventions,
Married Bettie Ann Crawford* on Sept. 3, 1872 they had 5 children: Louise Crawford [Wm. Louis Davis], Laura Banks Jordan, Elvin [Eugene Michel Holder,M.D.], Richard Dudley Jordan II* [Helen Fay Briggs*],and West Crawford Jordan [1)Kathleen Smith and 2)Lucille Hays West].
(*) These individuals have memorials posted by Paul Theodore Riegert.
After the war he was admitted into the practice of law in 1867. Became a member of the Memphis firm Randolph, Hammond and Jordan. In 1873 elected Shelby County Attorney, reelected to that post 7 times. Was also President of the Memphis School Board and was appointed district Referee in Bankruptcy. Was a Democratic delagate several times to national conventions,
Married Bettie Ann Crawford* on Sept. 3, 1872 they had 5 children: Louise Crawford [Wm. Louis Davis], Laura Banks Jordan, Elvin [Eugene Michel Holder,M.D.], Richard Dudley Jordan II* [Helen Fay Briggs*],and West Crawford Jordan [1)Kathleen Smith and 2)Lucille Hays West].
(*) These individuals have memorials posted by Paul Theodore Riegert.
His parents were Rix Jordan* and Sarah Ann Banks of Essex County, Virginia. Educated at Hampton Military Institute. He fought in the War Between the States [Civil War] enlisted April 1861 in Company G later Company D, First Virginia Infantry Regiment commanded by Col. Louis Williams, in Brig. Gen. James Kemper's Brigade, assigned to Major Gen. George Pickett's Division, of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's Corps, of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of General Robert E. Lee. Was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines on May 1862.Was again wounded at Gettysburg on July 3,1863 and again at Five Forks on March 31, 1865 where he was captured and sent to Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates and released in June 1865, after signing a Oath of Allegiance. Also fought in the engagements at Bull Run/Manassas, Fredricksburg, Suffolk, Richmond, Petersburg, Drewy's Bluff, Bermuda Hundred, and Dinwiddie's Courthouse.
After the war he was admitted into the practice of law in 1867. Became a member of the Memphis firm Randolph, Hammond and Jordan. In 1873 elected Shelby County Attorney, reelected to that post 7 times. Was also President of the Memphis School Board and was appointed district Referee in Bankruptcy. Was a Democratic delagate several times to national conventions,
Married Bettie Ann Crawford* on Sept. 3, 1872 they had 5 children: Louise Crawford [Wm. Louis Davis], Laura Banks Jordan, Elvin [Eugene Michel Holder,M.D.], Richard Dudley Jordan II* [Helen Fay Briggs*],and West Crawford Jordan [1)Kathleen Smith and 2)Lucille Hays West].
(*) These individuals have memorials posted by Paul Theodore Riegert.
After the war he was admitted into the practice of law in 1867. Became a member of the Memphis firm Randolph, Hammond and Jordan. In 1873 elected Shelby County Attorney, reelected to that post 7 times. Was also President of the Memphis School Board and was appointed district Referee in Bankruptcy. Was a Democratic delagate several times to national conventions,
Married Bettie Ann Crawford* on Sept. 3, 1872 they had 5 children: Louise Crawford [Wm. Louis Davis], Laura Banks Jordan, Elvin [Eugene Michel Holder,M.D.], Richard Dudley Jordan II* [Helen Fay Briggs*],and West Crawford Jordan [1)Kathleen Smith and 2)Lucille Hays West].
(*) These individuals have memorials posted by Paul Theodore Riegert.
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