Pinkney Jordan

Title

Pinkney Jordan

Aliases

James P Jordan; James Pinkney; Abraham Jordan; Pink Jordan

Date

7 October 1889-8 December 1924

Description

Regiment: 38th United States Colored Volunteer Infantry
Company: B
Rank: Private
Mustered in date and place: 1 September 1864, Newport News, Virginia, United States
Mustered out date and place: 25 February 1867, Richmond, Virginia, United States (per pension records); March, 1867, Powder Horn, Texas, United States (per pensioner’s testimony)
Veteran's date of death and place: 13 March 1903, Norfolk County, Virginia, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: Dutch Gap Canal, Virginia, United States, Powder Horn, Texas, United States
Comrades mentioned: Captain Joe Jince; George Mason; Cornelius Garner; Henry Carberry; Richard J. A. Lacy; Abraham Smith; Lieutenant Colonel Clapp; Lieutenant Colonel Hall; Lieutenant Colonel Warren; Captain Jos Duce; Captain Lipscomb; 1st Lieutenant Chas Clapp; 2d Lieutenant Weisz; Orderly Sergeant Butler; George B. Garner; John Armstrong; Duty Sergeant Arthur Wheeling; Duty Sergeant Geo R Mason; John Miles; Robert Gross; Henry Jordan; Sam Statesman; Joe Robinson; Randolph Whaling; John Armstrong; Corporal Ellerson Harmerson; Edmund Lamb; John Bowman

Name(s) of spouse(s): Mary E Jordan (maiden name Mary Ellen Booker) Date and place of marriage: 25 December 1873, Norfolk County, Virginia, United States
Children: William Henry Jordan (born 10 June 1875)

Veteran’s birth date and place: 10 June 1844, Leonardtown, Saint Mary’s County, Maryland, United States
Plantation(s): Not listed
Enslaver(s): Kate Watts

Parents of Veterans: James Jordan; Rachel Travis (maiden name)
Parent’s enslavers: Jack Nuttle (enslaver of father-James Jordan Piney Point, Maryland, United States); Kate Watts (enslaver of mother-Rachel Travis)
Other listed family members: Joshua Jordan (brother); Ben Gross (uncle)

Wife's date and place of birth: ~August 1852, Matthews County, Virginia, United States
Wife’s parents: Daniel Booker; Frances Booker
Plantation: Not Listed
Wife's enslaver: Not listed
Wife's other family members: Not listed
Wife’s date of death: 16 November 1924

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

Portable Document Format

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.