Are You Looking For Old Sawmill Towns?

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Permalink Reply by Russell Jordan on December 13, 2009 at 7:58am

thanks for posting the link. I put in my favorites. Never can tell when something like that may have the answer to someones "brickwall".

Permalink Reply by Russell Jordan on December 14, 2009 at 12:13pm

Sherry, I wanted to thank you again for posting the link to the site for old sawmill towns. I knew that a few of my Jordan family lived at one time or another in Jefferson Co.. Just "where" wasn't really sure. Most had been involved in sawmills so I started my search from there. From some early documents I found out some had lived in the old Pine Island Community about 8 -10 miles from Sour Lake on Pine Island bayou. Sour Lake is in Hardin Co. but Pine Island Community was on Jefferson Co. side of Pine Island bayou(in what was later called Westbury). According to my family lore there was an old unmarked cemetery located somewhere in these woods and I hope to oneday be able to locate it. My dad was able to find it before he died and according to him it was really grow up and what ew head markers he found were made of wood. So I would guess today most of that is gone. But thinks again!!

Permalink Reply by Sherry Hightower on December 20, 2009 at 12:30pm

Russell

Here are some Jordan memorials on Findagrave:

Hardin County

Jasper County

Jefferson County

Liberty County

Permalink Reply by Russell Jordan on December 20, 2009 at 1:07pm

Quite a few of the burials at FindGrave for Hardin Co. are related to me . Some at Jefferson Co. maybe. I don't know a whole lot of my family members.