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Date Posted: 12:56:27 03/13/05 Sun
Author: Phillip Lindsey
Subject: Jordans in Alabama

I'm doing some research about my girlfriend's family. We have had a hard time finding any info on her great-grandmothers parents because they supposedly died in a train wreck sometime between 1911 and 1920.

Her great-grandmother's name was Dollie Mae Jordan, she was born 7 sep 1911, and that is really all she knew about her family. She unsuccessfully tried to find more about her parents, and her brothers and sisters, before she died 5 nov 1998.

From what she had said, she had a lot of brothers and sisters, so we are thinking there has to be some way to find a descendant of one of them who would have been old enough at the time of the train wreck to remember the parents.

Apparently, Dollie was the youngest of the children, probably only a couple of years old at the time of the wreck. Her brothers and sisters were seperated after the wreck, and probably adopted. We don't know anything else about the brothers and sisters.

Dollie lived with William Marcus Morrison of Calhoun County, Alabama after her parent's death and people began to complain that a man should not have a young girl in his home. William never adopted Dollie as far as we know. Fearing that she would be taken away from him, they married in 1927 when Dollie was 16 years old.

We have searched on census records, but since Dollie was born in 1911, she wouldn't be on one as a child with her parents. She is on the 1920 census, living with William Morrison. We have searched for families with a lot of children on the 1910 census that are missing from the 1920 census, but not knowing which county to look in has made that almost impossible.

Anyway, I just thought I would give you this info to see if maybe any of it sounded familiar. I figure it is a longshot, but she's got to have brothers and sisters out there somewhere who remember their parents, not to mention nieces and nephews who have heard the story.

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