Correspondence and photographs generated and/or collected by family of Nathan Haynes Jordan and wife, Mary Frances Bailey Jordan, originally of Davisboro and Fitzgerald, Georgia, and after 1934, of Greer, S.C.; they were parents of six children: Audrey Mary, twins Richard Holmes and Robert Taylor, Nathan Haynes, Jr., Edwin Earle, and William Henry Bailey Jordan; letters between Nathan and Mary Jordan and between Mary Jordan and brother, William H. Bailey. Papers from World War II-era include letters to Audrey Jordan from Robert E.H. Askew, a British R.A.F. pilot stationed in S.C. and Ga. for training. American servicemen who corresponded with Audrey included Jimmie Waters of Camden, S.C., and Ernest Kelley, whose letters originated chiefly from North Africa and Italy and discuss Italian culture, landscape, and cities. Letters of Nathan Jordan, Jr., Corporal, later Sergeant, U.S. Army, document his army service at Ft. Wheeler, Ga., and Ft. Meade, Md., prior to his arrival in England, July 1944; he was sent immediately to France, as part of Co. M, 38th Infantry Division; wounded in fighting near Tinchebray, France, 14 Aug. 1944; issued a presumptive date of death, 15 Aug. 1945; military documents concerning his status include letters from the Army Effects Bureau regarding the return of personal items and letters from the Adjutant General's Office. Letters of Richard Jordan (Seaman 1st Class, U.S. Navy), reflect his service aboard USS Boxer; letters of William Jordan (Radioman 2nd Class, U.S. Navy); stationed first at Great Lakes, Ill.; member of U.S. Navy's "Bluejacket Choir," performed weekly on radio program, "Meet Your Navy," discuss him impressions of life in the northern midwest; other posts discussed in his letters include U.S. Naval Radio School (Auburn, Ala.) and Shoemaker and San Diego, Ca., for communications training; during and immediately following World War II, William Jordan was stationed in Manilla, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other Pacific locations. Postwar papers include letters written by William Jordan while a student at University of South Carolina as well as letters to and from other relatives, among them Mary Jordan's sister Kate, who married Owen Higgs, and "Aunt Bertha," Roberta Jordan Taylor (1890-1972), sister to Nathan Jordan, Sr.; items dating from 1960s and 1970s document William Jordan's work as Director of Music at West Market Street Methodist Church in Greensboro, N.C. Later papers document involvement of William Jordan and his wife, Rose Marie Cooper, in the 1969 inauguration of Missouri governor Warren Hearnes; miscellaneous materials include Audrey Jordan's high school graduation announcement (1933), public school report cards from her youth, and documentation of her employment at Meyers-Arnold Department Store, Greenville, S.C. Photographic images include Audrey Jordan and friends; the family of Nathan and Mary Jordan; and other relatives.
