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Marshall Jordan
celebrates 90th
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Ncm Staff Writer
Marshall Jordan will be 90 this coming Tuesday. He has lived almost all of those 90 years in Gid Brown Hollow.
He was bom in a log cabin not far from his current home, one of six children, four girls and two boys. Only one sister is still living, and she is in Philadelphia. As children they would visit between families, “playing horseshoes and having ftin.” Families were lots burger then, he said. “Most everybody had six or seven in the family.”
He didn’t have much opportunity for schooling. “My mother died when I was 13," he said. “My father was old, and I had to go to work to take care of him and my sisters.”
He did sharecropping and other farm work. They had a milk cow and raised some hogs. Once he was grown, he went to West Virginia briefly and worked in a lime plant. He received word that his father wanted him to come home to put in a com crop and he came back and “stayed on.”
When his father died, he married “Tom Timbers’s daughter Lucy Allen.” They had four sons; three lived and two are still living. George Jordan lives with his father, and Tom Jordan “lives up the road.” Both of his sons work in Fairfax County. His wife died 30 yean ago.
See JORDAN, Page A-8
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