Marriage and Family

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Editor's note: Louvinia Jordan dated her future husband, James Randolph Jordan, for about a year before marrying him.

Well, I met my husband after I left the Signal Corps. I moved – I worked for the VA for a while with medical records...

And he was stationed at Bethesda, Maryland. He did electrocardiogram on Cordell Hull...

OK. Well, you know, today they say how people, you know, say things about people they worked for and then – but I just thought they always teased me, and I just thought it was because they liked me. I never made any more sense than that. (Laughter). You know, and when I got ready to go, they were going to follow the bus so that when I threw my shoes out – because people in North Carolina didn't wear shoes-- that they would be there to catch them for their wives. (Laughter). I just looked back at them, and I said, “I'm going to North Carolina to raise taters, and maters, and onions, and young 'uns.” (Lots of laughter)...

And we lived in six states.

First we lived in North Carolina. Left North Carolina and went to Virginia. From Virginia, we went to Ohio. Ohio to West Virginia. West Virginia, we came back to North Carolina. Then we went to Louisiana, and Georgia."