Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Jessamine Co. JORDEN BERDINE was born in January, 1833, and is the seventh child of Linsey and Matilda (Gromer) Berdine. Jorden Berdine was reared on a farm in his native county, Jessamine, and was married in 1856 to Margaret Johnson of Jessamine County. He farmed up to 1884, then opened a store of general merchandise at what is known as Mt. Lebanon, and is still in business, continuing his farming and raising stock. He owns 400 acres of land in Sulphur Well District. Margaret Johnson was born in 1832, and had one brother, William Johnson, and one sister, Margaret Johnson, who both married Staffords, all of the same county. The father Jeptha Johnson, and mother, America Johnson, were born in 1812, and married in their twenty-first year. The father was seventy-eight years old when he died; the mother was sixty-three years old when she died. Grandfather and Grandmother Hunter lived between Hickman Creek and the Kentucky River, at the narrowest point when first settled, and owned 600 acres of land and several slaves. Berdine Gromer Johnson Stafford Hunter = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jessamine/berdine.j.txt