From: History & Families of Baxter County Arkansas
JORDAN - After losing a small fortune in Alabama during the Civil War, William B. Jordan came to Arkansas to get a new start. He staked out 1,000 acres of land on the Northfork and White rivers in what was then Marion County, but was incorporated in Baxter County when it was formed. A part of this land on White River is still owned by descendants of his granddaughter, Hessie Jordan Dilbeck.

The family of William B. Jordan came originally from England. He was born in Virginia and was a member of the Christian Church. As a young man, he moved to Alabama and became a prosperous farmer and miller. He was a colonel in the Civil War and died in Baxter County in 1897.

William B. Jordan married a Miss Paul of Alabama; their children were Alice and Albert. After her death, he married Martha Gammill; their children were: Jane, Georgia, Baxter, John and James Luther.

In 1867, Col. Jordan brought his family to Arkansas and established their home at what became known as the Jim Lonon place on Highway 126. The original house is now a part of Mountain Village 1890 in Bull Shoals.

Baxter Jordan married Mary Conley; their children were: Fannie, William, Thomas and Nell.

John Jordan married Lou Messick; their children were: Virgil, Ethel and another son.

James Luther Jordan married Mary "Sis" Lonon; their children were Belle and Florence. After the death of his first wife, James Luther married Martha Davis who had come to Baxter County from Georgia.

The children of James Luther and Martha Davis Jordan were: Ephram (married Addie Lee) who moved to Oklahoma at an early age and died in California; Nora (married John Dilbeck); Hessie (married Henry Dilbeck); and Don (married Zora Herron).

Both James Luther Jordan and his wife are buried in the Cooper Cemetery. One daughter, Hessie Jordan Dilbeck, lived her entire life in the Whiteville Community of Baxter County. Her children were: Lloyd, Edith, Rex and Alene Lonon -all deceased; Harvey, Neil and Iva Wiltfong - still living in the area. Henry C. Dilbeck and his wife, Hessie Jordan Dilbeck, are buried in the Gassville Cemetery. Submitted by Donnie Pitchford

The History of Baxter County Arkansas by Frances Shiras McClelland reads:
After losing a small fortune in Alabama during the Civil War, William B. Jordan came to Arkansas to get a new start. He staked out 1,000 acres of land in what was then Marion County, but which later was incorporated in Baxter County when it was formed. He served as Justice of the Peace for many years. He was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, in 1808, the son of Baxter Jordan. When a young man he moved to Alabama and became a prosperous farmer and miller. He was married to Miss Paul of Green County, Alabama, and they were the parents of two children. After her death he married Martha Gammil, also of Greene County, and to them were born five children. Col. Jordan was a Mason. The family came originally from England and both of his grandfathers, Edward Jordan and John Pettus, were outstanding soldiers in the Revolutionary War

And from elsewhere on the web about the Civil War photo:
Born about 1843, young Jordan was photographed wearing a state-issue seven button fatigue uniform prescribed after the earlier AVC regulations. The shell jacket, probably made at Mobile, is light grey with darker facing color (a medium blue for infantry) on cuffs, collar and cloth shoulder straps. The kepi appears to be dark blue, bearing the brass letters “DB” for “Dixie Boys.” His musket is a M1816 with cone-in-barrel conversion probably captured (January 1861) inventory from the Mount Vernon Arsenal with locally made russet leather US pattern accoutrements. The rectangular belt plate is gilded, obscuring the surface detail.

From Pickens, Alabama, Baxter Jordan enlisted in the “Dixie Boys” at Navy Cove near Ft. Morgan as company 4th Corporal. Archive records are lacking but Jordan apparently ended the war as sergeant, later moving to Whiteville, Arkansas, and living until at least 1890. The 24th Alabama served in the Mobile fortifications and later marched with the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta. The regiment was decimated at Franklin, the survivors fighting at Bentonville and surrendering with Joe Johnston in April 1865.



1880 census
Jordon, Baxter          37     AL
             Mary L         34     NC
             Fanny S         7     Kids all born in AR
             Thomas C      5
             William B      2

Fannie L. Jordan Bodenhamer September 13, 1872 September ?? 1909
G. E. Bodenhamer married Fannie L. Jordan November 3, 1895 per “The Early Marriages of Baxter County Arkansas 1873 to 1897”