102 - James T. Jordan - Cashion, OK
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N 35° 51.812 W 097° 47.925
14S E 608454 N 3969478
James Jordan's headstone is located in a lovely rural cemetery approximately seven miles east of Kingfisher.
Waymark Code: WMV9EG
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/18/2017
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James Jordan's headstone is located in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, which is located north off Highway 33 on Big 4 Road (N2920 Rd). This cemetery is a quiet, peaceful area which only 62 headstones that are marked. His headstone is a vertical, two-tone gray granite, with a rusticated base and curved top. A single rose is engraved above the inscription. The inscription reads:
JAMES T. JORDAN
Dec. 4, 1887
Dec. 8, 1989
* James Jordan was born the same year of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes mystery.
* He was a mere 16 months old when the Land Run opened up white settlement in this part of Oklahoma.
* He was two when the horrific Johnstown Flood occurred in Pennsylvania.
* When the great San Francisco earthquake almost destroyed that city, James was 18.
* Oklahoma became a state the year James was 20.
* Ford introduced the Model T when James was 21.
* The U.S. entered World War I when James was 29, and entered World War II when he was 54.
* The year Lindberg made the first trans-Atlantic flight, James was 39.
* He was 42 the year of the Wall Street Crash in 1929.
* John Glenn orbited the earth when James was 74.
* President George H.W. Bush was elected just before James' 101st birthday.