Permelia S. JORDAN 1840-1915
"GLASGOW'S OLDEST BUSINESS WOMAN. And One of the Best Citizens of the Town Dies. A long and successful business career and the life of a woman, well-known throughout Barren and adjoining counties, has been brought to a close with the death of Mrs. P. S. Jordan.
Fifty years ago, she became interested in the business circles of Glasgow and established a millinery store here and up until her death she still conducted her millinery establishment. One hundred seasons, she had seen come and go during this time and during this time she had supplied the county and neighboring counties and generation after generation with more hats than any other milliner, who ever lived in this section of the state. She began her business career with not much of her own capital, and when she had finished her life's work she had accumulated a comfortable fund in the financial kingdom and owned her business house and home, which occupy one of the most desirable locations on the public square. Besides the fact that she was the oldest milliner in the town and county, she was also the town's pioneer business citizen, having been engaged in business longer here than any other man or woman in Glasgow. What she had, she had made and earned by labor and work and there was no more scrupulous or correct business citizen in the town than she. Her policy was ever for truthfulness, honesty and integrity and if she had left no worldly possessions, she would have beft something far more valuable than riches and that is an honest and good name, emblazoned over her life's record and upon the memory of all.
About five years ago, she was stricken with typhoid fever and her recuperative powers could never quite overcome the after-effects of this ravaging disease. For the past year, she had been rapidly declining and because of her advanced years, being in her seventy-sixth year, and her debilitated physical condition, her death was not unexpected. She retained her strong mental activities clearly to the last and when the end came it was peaceful and quiet. Her death was pronounced due to senile dementia.
Mrs. Jordan is survived by four children; Miss Maud Jordan and L. L. Jordan, of this place; Mrs. L. E. Watson, of St. Louis, and Mr. Tom Jordan, of Jacksonville, Fla. She had been a faithful and devout member of the Methodist church for fifty years, having joined that denomination when she was twenty-five years old.
In the absence of Rev. S. G. Shelly, the funeral services were conducted by Mr. Tom Shader of the Methodist Church, Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, after which the remains were interred in the Glasgow cemetery. The pallbearers included: Messrs. N. D. Terry, Jim Depp, Basil Smith, Hardin Ralston, Will Daugherty, L. W. Gee."
Unknown Glasgow KY newspaper. |
