When Frank David Jordan Sr. eloped with Alma Loehr in 1904, they probably never dreamed their descendants would still be living in Island Home over 100 years later. In 1915, Mr. Jordan built a small house at 910 Island Home Pike next to what is now the entrance of Ijams Nature Center. They had a total of five children and ran Jordan Grocery, which served the Island Home Community and Mead’s Quarry.
The oldest child, Earl Harris Jordan, bought a house in 1941 at what is now 2004 Spence Place and rented it to an army wife. In 1944 Earl and his wife, Mabel, moved into the residence and lived there until Mabel’s death in 2001. In the photo below, note the shadow of a tree in the front lawn. That is the large Gingko tree that is still there today, roughly 100 years old.
Frank and Alma Jordan’s second child, Virginia Jordan Miser, married in 1972 and moved into 2223 Maplewood Drive with her husband, John Miser, who lived there until his death in 2010. The third child, William Vasco Jordan, resided at 2218 Hillsboro Heights during the mid-1950’s.The youngest Jordan child, Frank David Jordan Jr., moved into 2027 Willis Place in 1962 with his wife, Sally, and two children, David and Margaret Ann. He owned the house until Margaret Jordan Webb and Bob Webb, his daughter and son-in-law, purchased it in 2016 exactly 54 years to the day after Frank and Sally bought it.
