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Abraham J Jordan

Abraham J Jordan
b. 12 September 1820, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana, to Abraham and Elizabeth (Miller) Jordan
d. 13 March 1897, Dewitt County, Illinois

m. 14 October 1841, Dearborn County, Indiana
Nancy Bennett
b. about 1822, Indiana
d. about 1856, Jennings County, Indiana

Children with Nancy Bennett:

Milo Paine (b. 1845)
Rebecca Jane (b. 1847)
Isabell (b. 1851)
Margaret (b. 1852)
Thomas Jefferson (b. 1855)

Abraham’s father emigrated from Cumberland County, Maine, to Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana, about 1815-1816. Abraham resided in York, Dearborn County, Indiana, and Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana. He moved to Tunbridge, Dewitt County, Illinois, about 1865.

Submitted by:
Marilyn R. Jordan-Solari
Sonora CA
E-mail: lynden@goldrush.com

Benjamin Bennett

Benjamin Bennett
b. 14 April 1832, Franklin County, Indiana, to Notley and Christine [–?–] Bennett
d. 7 March 1921, Weaver, Wabasha County, Minnesota

m/1.
Mary Peterson
b. 1852

m/2. 24 May 1894, Wabasha, Wabasha County, Minnesota
Anna Kruger
b. 23 May 1876, Germany
d. 8 May 1934, Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota

Children:

Fifteen, all born in Minnesota

Benjamin Bennett resided at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. He enlisted at Dearborn County, Indiana, on 6 August 1861 and served during the Civil War in Company K, 26th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. In 1866 he emigrated to Watopa, Wabasha County, Minnesota.

Submitted by:
Maurice Bennett
Rochester MN

Eli Barbre

Eli Barbre
b. 25 July 1798, Kentucky
d. 29 November 1839, Waverly, Morgan County, Illinois

m/1. about 1819, Posey County, Indiana
Nancy Wilkerson
d. 1835, Edgar County, Illinois

m/2. 17 January 1829
Anna Wilson

Children with Nancy Wilkerson:

Isaac (b. 1820) married Nancy Bennett
William (b. 1822) married (1) Rebecca Smith, (2) Lucy M. Smith
Charlotte (b. 1824) married Wright Miller
Celia D. (b. 1826) married (1) Edward Bennett, (2) Charles Wiggins, (3) James Cleveland, (4) Henry Atkinson

Children with Anna Wilson:

Sarah E. (b. 1831) married Harvey Withrow

Eli and Anna Barbre moved to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1835. Elder Eli Barbre, one of the ministers in the Springfield Association, moved his family often as he worked “as a laborer in the vineyard of his Divine Master.” His first four children were born in Indiana, while the younger ones were born in Illinois.

One of the children returned to Indiana to live. Isaac Barbre moved to Illinois with his parents but returned to Indiana, where he married and served for three years in an Indiana regiment during the Civil War.

Two of these children lived in Illinois at the time of their father’s death in 1839. William
Barbre, Eli’s second son, married in Sangamon County, Illinois, and served in Company B, 10th Illinois Cavalry. Celia D. Barbre resided in Clark County, Illinois. Charlotte Barbre lived in Lynn County, Oregon, in 1839.

From: Waverly Genealogical & Historical Society Newsletter, Waverly, Illinois, #65 (October 1994), p. 5.