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Note: Son of Milton James and Willie Moore Jordan.
Sidney was the son of Milton {Tobe} and Willie Moore Jordan. His social security number is 258-62-4041.0. He grew up in northern Grady County near the Pope's Store Community on a farm and loved to sing, loved cats, and to visit. He usually carried us children along. I remember one thing that impressed me was his laughing. Mrs. Annie Jo Miller and her husband ran the country store in the community, and she tells me about the men who would meet at the store and how he was always laughing. He was a Primitive Baptist but did not join the church until he was in his forties. He did not take up the habit of smoking until a neighbor gave him some tobacco. He smoked Prince Albert tobacco. Later he smoked cigars for a short time and a pipe after he began to have pulmonary disease. He did not drink, he said he got drunk once and he was very sick and that was the one and only time for him. When he was older he mixed a drink from whiskey, water, and sugar. If he had a cold, he added peppermint candy for a cough. In his old days, he liked blackberry wine and orange crush sodas. On Saturday when we kids were in town he would give us a nickel for an orange crush drink. He love to joke, like asking,"did you ever see a 'possum chase a dog up a tree".?
IN MEMORY OF GRANDPA JORDAN, BY GRANDDAUGHTER, DOROTHY RUNYON.
I loved Grandpa's old overalls and his peppermint stick candy--that soft kind. I loved being out in the cane grinding shed with him. I thought that was so neat. I remember he used to try to fool me into eating hog brain caused it looked like scrambled eggs, but I never would eat it. I always looked forward to him cooking up some backbone and rice, Mmm- Mmm good. He would let us ride on the back of the truck on top of the cotton bales when he was ready to take it to the gin in town. We spent many hours swinging in the front porch swing with him. He was an "old time" cook and would leave the fields around 10:30 am in the summertime to cook our lunch of butterbeans or peas, biscuits or cornbread, okra, sliced tomatoes, rice and backbone or beef stew, "molasses" cakes. He was a wonderful Grandpa.
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