Bodan Cemetery
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Pronunciation of "Jordan"All my life my family pronounced "Jordan" as "jor'-dən" rhyming with "Gordon." If, however, you had asked my grandfather, John Raymond JORDAN, his name, he would have answered "jur'-dən" rhyming with "burden." His sons, my father's generation, changed the way they pronounced their name. At the Bodan ("bo'-dan") Cemetery Reunion, I listened to people pronouncing "Jordan" and found only one person who said "jur'-dən." When talking to someone else later, he said he had heard that if you spelled the Jordan name with an "ö" as in "Jördan," then the German pronunciation is "jur'-dən." He thought maybe the Jordans came from Germany, but he really did not know where the Jordan line came from. There is one grave marker that spells the Jordan name differently: Hugh JORDON. Hugh was the son of Benjamin Ross JORDAN and Daisy Oneta RED Jordan, so I would have thought that the spelling would be the same. As a side note, Hugh's record in the Texas Death Index spells it "Jerdin" which is a unique way of spelling the name - at least for this Web site.
Last updated: June 03, 2010 |
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