A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--page 1070
John A. Jordon, of Pittsboro, Middle Township, Hendricks County, Ind., and now largely engaged in the lumber business, is a native of the county and was born November 3, 1843, and is of colonial descent. His paternal great-grandfather, Aquilla Jordon, was a planter of Botetourt County, Va., and a patriot of the Revolutionary War, but who lived through the gallant struggle and died in peace at his home. His son, also named Aquilla, was born on the old plantation, married Elizabeth Curtis, and ended his days in his native county of Botetourt. George W. Jordon, son of Aquilla Jordon, the younger, was also born in Botetourt County, Va., but left his native state at the age of fourteen years, and for two years resided in Ohio, then came to Hendricks County, Ind., where he entered land from the government and acquired a competency. He married Tabitha McCormick, daughter of Samuel McCormick, to which union was born five children, four living, viz.: William T., Susan A., John A. and Mary A. The parents were devoted members of the Christian Church, which they liberally aided with their means, and in the faith of which the father died July 24, 1885, and the mother on December 24, 1872.
John A. Jordon was reared in Middle Township and married, January 9, 1870, Miss Amelia M. Dillon, daughter of Mark and Sophia (McCann) Dillon, of Boone County, this marriage being blessed with the birth of the following children, in the order named below: Vietta J., Ida B., Carrie E. and William E.
On the eighteenth day of August, 1862, Mr. Jordon enlisted in Company H, Ninety-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served in the campaigns of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Virginia. He took an active part in the battles at Vicksburg, Jackson, Missionary Ridge, Germantown, Knoxville, Dalton, Chattanooga, and was in the Atlanta campaign; also at Resaca, Kingston, New Hope Church, Altoona Pass, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, Chattahoochie River, Jonesboro, and was with Sherman in his march to the sea; was at Fort McAllister, at Fayetteville, and in a hundred skirmishes beside; saw the city of Columbia burned; was at Raleigh, N.C., when the war closed, and took part in the grand review at Washington, D.C. He received his discharge June 5, 1865, and is now an honored member of G.A.R. post, No. 451.