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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.
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