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Submitted: 6/27/24 • Approved: 7/27/24 • Last Updated: 7/30/24 • R596995-G596995-S3
Ernst
July 21, 1821 - Dec 23, 1892
Lisette
July 20, 1822 - Aug 23, 1899
Durch Kreuz zur krone - Through the cross to the crown
*When Johann Ernst Heinrich Christian Franz Jordan was born on July 12, 1821, his father, Johann, was 46 and his mother, Johanne, was 29. He married Wilhelmine Uflaker and they had one daughter together. He then married Lisette Elisabeth Bickenbach and they had eight children together. He died on December 23, 1892, in Art, Texas, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mason, Texas.
*Wilhelmine Uflaker was born in 1822. She married Johann Ernst Heinrich Christian Franz Jordan on April 19, 1841. They had one child during their marriage. She died as a young mother in 1846 in Texas at the age of 24.
*When Lisette Elisabeth Bickenbach was born on July 20, 1822, in Öleroth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, her father, Johann, was 28, and her mother, Anna, was 27. She married Johann Ernst Heinrich Christian Franz Jordan in 1849 in Fredericksburg, Texas. They had eight children in 13 years. She died on August 23, 1899, in Art, Texas, having lived a long life of 77 years, and was buried in Mason, Texas.
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