1Bible Record in possesion of Blanche Curtis,.
1Joseph Long and Catherine "Long/Baker" Bible Record. "CHAPTER ONE
Joseph Long and Catherine Foster
An old Bible record found with a member of the Long/Baker family shows that Joseph Long and Catherine Foster married on December 5, 1793. According to that record, Joseph was born July 23, 1770 and died January 6, 1837. Catherine was born January 17, 1770. Her date death is difficult to read in the Long/Baker Bible, but was given as August 25, 1811 in a record found in the Carpenter family. The Bible gives her age at death as 41 years, 7 months and some days, which are crumbled away. August of 1811 is 41 years and 7 months from January 1770.
Joseph Long's second marriage, according to the Bible, was to Agnes Kimsey, widow of Benjamin Kimsey, on December 14, 1813.
In 1893, Thomas Boyd Foster of Stevenson, Alabama, wrote his "Family Sketches". His father was William Foster. Thomas Boyd Foster wrote:
As far as I am able to ascertain, my grand parents Foster raised seven children. These were Catherine, Isabella, Margaret, and one daughter, name not known. I am inclined to the belief that this was the Mary reported to have died January 10th, 1806. The sons were James, Robert and William. Catharine Foster married Joseph Long, and settled in Bedford County, Tennessee. They raised a large family. Henry, the oldest son, married a Miss Anderson; was a Methodist minister; accumulated but little property; raised a large family of children; was a good and useful man, and when far advanced in life went to Texas and died.
William F. Long, the second son, was a very fine looking man, much stooped in the back, caused by rheumatism in early life; married a Miss Black; was quite porsperous; thought for a time to be worth fifty thousand dollars. He, in company with several other, issued change certificates in the shinplaster race of 1837. When they had issued tickets for a large amount, his partners put their property out of the reach of law. Long disdained such a course, an took up the tickets as they were presented for payment. In this way the most of the property was expended. He married a second wife, moved to Taladega, Ala., and died about the year 1840 , or perhaps a little later.
Joseph Long was probably the third son; married a Miss Flack; prospered well in life. I think there was another brother, James. One of the daughters married Andrew Wittenburg, and another married William Carpenter. These and perhaps others of the family, settled in Taladega County Alabama. Some of them moved to that county while the Cherokee Indians still occupied the country. As far as I ever knew of this family, they were remarkable for their uprightness, integrity and industry, and more especially for their piety.
Thomas Boyd Foster was accurate, if incomplete in his account of the family. He apparently collected information by correspondence and from memory. The children of Catherine Foster and Joseph Long were:
William F. b August 31, 1794 Virginia d September 1841 m 1st Mary Elizabeth BLACK July 29, 1824, m 2nd Mary FRAZIER TEMPLE
Henry b 12 July 1796 Virginia d 16 August 1867 m Rachel ANDERSON May 1, 1814 m 2nd Elvira Elizabeth PHILLIPS GRADY 28 June 1867
Anna b 26 August 1798 Virginia d 20 April 1865 m Andrew WHITTENBURG 23 November 1815
Mary b 11 September 1800 Virginia d 24 September 1874 m William S. CARPENTER 9 August 1825
Catherine b May 18, 1803 Virginia d Jan 18, 1873 m Seabourn JONES July 13, 1820
Marga-ret b July 24, 1805 Tennessee m 1st John GORE 2nd Norvell GANNAWAY
John b Dec 9, 1807 d aft 1860 m Hannah GORE about 1829 2nd Mary DAVIS 8 October 1837
Joseph Jr. b Dec 9, 1807 d 6 September 1838 m Matilda FLACK abt 1830
James b Nov 5, 1809 d Feb 18, 1849 m 1st Margaret GORE July 1, 1827, 2nd Margaret Townsend PARK 25 January 1841
Joseph and Catherine Long are named in two separate family records. The Bible record mentioned above records the whole familly. Some of Mary's siblings are named in a "Long Family Record" compiled about 1930 by Enid Long Barker. {See PROLOGUE.} Enid Barker interviewed older relatives still living at that time. Her report on her great grandfather, William F. Long, names some of his siblings and his chil-dren. William F. Long's brothers and sisters are listed as:
John Long went to Mississippi
Henry Long married Rachel Anderson; descendants live in Caldwell County, Tex.
Polly Long married Willie Carpenter
children: 1. Wylie Carpenter m Mary Kelley
2. Betty Carpenter m 1st Mr. Fry 2nd Mr. Alexander
Annie Long married Andrew Whittenburg
In Russell County, Virginia, Joseph Long purchased 112 acres on 5 Feb 1800. Joseph & Cathrine Long sold it to William Foster on 27 Jul 1802. William Foster and his wife Pheby in turn sold the 112 acres to Monsher(?) La Force on 1 Oct 1806. William Foster was almost certainly a relative of Catherine's. Thomas Boyd Foster's book does not identify a William Foster who had a wife named Phoebe.
The Bedford County, Tennessee Deed Books P and Q record four grants of land to Joseph Long on Thompsons Creek:
Grant 17970: 20 acres, surveyed 5 Apr 1810 registered 12 Oct 1822
Grant 17971: 17 acres, surveyed 17 Sept 1814 registered 16 June 1823
Grant 17972: 5 acres, surveyed 15 Mar 1816 registered Oct 1822
Grant 17973: 50 acres, surveyed 28 Nov 1819 registered (no date)
The later disposition of that land has not been traced. Grant #17970 was on the headwaters of the creek.
The Bedford County Historical Quarterly, from Shelbyville, Tennessee, vol. 6 no.1, contains an article about the Mt. Pisgah Methodist Church. It states that "the old Mt. Pisgah Methodist Church was active as early as 1821, as the church register has membership listings as [at?] this early date. ... The first deeded land to the church was dated in 1832 when Samuel Pollock and Jesse Rogers, for $250.00, deeded to an eight man Commission, Joseph Smith, John Gore, Henry Long, William S. Carpenter, James Long, Enoch Floyd, Michael Holt and Willie B. Snell, a certain tract or parcel of land containing one acre and 54 sq. poles, joined by William S. Caruthers. The deed was executed December 12, 1832...." This church Commission locates the family group in Bedford County in 1832. The 1830 census of that county also shows these family members. They began to appear in the deed records of Talladega County, Alabama, as early as 1834. Joseph Junior was dead before that year. Of the other children, only Henry has not been found in records of Talladega County, Alabama.
WILLIAM F. LONG
William F. Long was the eldest child of Joseph Long and Catherine Foster. William was born August 31, 1794. He and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Black, are the subjects of Chapter 2. He married second Mary Frazer Temple.
HENRY LONG
Henry Long was born 12 July 1796. He married Rachel Anderson 1 May 1814. They are the subjects of Chapter 5. His descendants and related families are the subjects of Chapters 6-11.
ANNA LONG
Anna Long was born 26 August 1798. She married Andrew Whittenburg 23 November 1815. They are the subjects of Chapter 3.
MARY LONG
Mary Long was born 11 Sept 1800. She married William S.Carpenter 9 August 1825. They are the subjects of Chapter 4.
MARGARET LONG
The Baker/Long Bible record says that Margaret was born 24 July 1805. The date of her marriage to John Gore is not given, but John's death on 7 July 1834 is recorded. After John Gore's death, John Long administered the estate and was guardian of the Gore chil-dren. On 7 November 1842, Andrew Whitten-burg was "established as trustee for John Gore's heirs to whom John Long owes $2000." Those heirs were named as Polly Ann, Cather-ine, Hannah and Joshua.
Margaret must have decided to move to Talladega, Alabama, to be near most of her siblings after John Gore died. She was married to Norvell Gannaway in Talladega County, Alabama, 10 August 1837 by James Long, J.P.
Norvelle Gannaway was born in Virginia May 3, 1793, and died in Talladega County, Alabama, July 29, 1870. His son Andrew Gannaway married Margaret C. Whittenburg on 27 January, 1852, ninth child of Anna Long and Andrew Whittenburg. Margaret Gore was proba-bly unnamed in the history compiled by Enid Long Barker because she did not come to Texas, and was thus unknown to the members of the family whose recollections Enid depended upon for her work.
The combined families of Norvell and Margaret appear in the 1850 census in Talladega County, Alabama:
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Norvell Ganaway 57 VA
Margaret " 45 TN
Mary " 24 VA
Sarah " 17 Ala
Lina " 16 "
William " 10 "
Polly Gore 23 TN
James B " 21 VA
Catherine " 21 VA
Hannah " 18 TN
Joshua " 16 TN
In Talladega County, Mary Gore married Elisha Rucks 15 July 1851 and Catherine Gore married John D Nicks 10 January 1856.
JOHN LONG
John Long was born in Tennessee 9 March 1807. Three of his children were reportedly born in Tennessee: Joseph in 1830, A. C. in 1832 and Delilah in 1835. He must have married, then, by about 1829. His marriage to Hannah Gore is recorded in the Baker/Long Bible, but the page is torn, leaving "Jan" as the only readable date. Hannah Long's death is also recorded as April 29, with the year unreadable. She must have died some time after the birth of Delila in 1835. Perhaps that was what led him to move to Alabama where other members of his family were living.
On 21 June 1836, John Long was named as administrator of the estate of John Gore of Talladega, Alabama. The next record we have of his activity is a deed. On Dec 10, 1836, he bought for $237, the North 1/2 of Section 19 Township 17 Range 5E from Jesse Duren of Benton County, Alabama. He sold that land for $1200 on 29 June 1839 to Tabitha Randall adm'x of the estate of Alexander Randall.
In October 1837, John Long married Mary Davis in Talladega County, Alabama.
On August 31 1839, he bought N 1/2 of S 35 T 18 R 5E from his brother William F Long of Bedford County, Tennessee for $3200.
On 25 Dec 1839, he sold to Green T. McAfee for $150 NE 1/4 of NE 1/4 S 30 T 17 R 5, about 40 acres. It is not clear when he came into possession of this land in Section 30, Township 17, Range 5.
The 1840 census of Talladega County, Alabama, lists him age 30-40, with a woman 30-40; 3 boys and 10 girls. Those thirteen children were clearly not the product of John and Mary's marriage three years earlier. In 1840, John's son Joseph E. was 10, daughter A.C. was about 8, and Delila about 5. John and Mary's daughter P.J. was born about 1840 and may be included in this census.
The other children could reasonably be children of Mary's by a previous marriage and/or children of William F. Long, who reportedly lived with relatives in Alabama even before their father's death in 1841.
The boys, besides Joseph E., could be William F.'s sons William Henry, born about 1830 and Claiborn, born around 1837. The other two girls under 5 besides P.J. could be William's Matilda age 4 and Mary Ann age 2. The three girls 5-10 would fit Amanda age 5, Elizabeth age 7, and America age 10 or 11, depending on when the census was taken.
Four more girls aged 10 to 15 could include Sophia, who was 12 and Jane about 13.
If Mary Davis Long had married about 1825 at 19, she could well have had two daughters who were ten to fifteen years old in 1840. Such a scenario would account for the children in the census in John Long's household and locate the children of William F. Long, discussed in detail in Chapter 2.
In the Circuit Court of Talladega County, Alabama, reference is made [January Term 1848 Book 16, Part 1, p. 172] to "a promis-sory note made by John Long, James Long and William F. Long, 14 Feb. 1840. At time of note, the makers all resided in Talladega County. William F. Long left the State and died previous to maturity of note (note was due 25 Dec. 1841). John Long was in Tennessee when note became due and James Long was in Talladega on that day but left immediately after for that State; and returned with John on 9 Jan 1841....James Long administered on William F. Long's estate in Talladega and John Long was his administrator in Tenn. James Long resided in Talladega up to last of January 1842, when he removed to Randolph County where he remained until the last of January 1844; he then returned to Talladega County and has resided there ever since. He administered on the estate of William F. Long after latter's death, about September 1841. Present suit was instituted in January 1844."
On 9 March 1843, John & Mary Long sold for $150 to Beersheba P Cain of Benton County, Ala E 1/2 of SE 1/4 of S 27 T 19 R 6 about 80 acres in Talladega County, Alabama.
John Long's associations with Jesse Duren continued. Duren had sold Long his first parcel of land in Talladega County in 1836. It appears that the John Long family followed Jesse Duren and others from Talladega County to Cherokee County, Texas. Perhaps Duren was kin to John or his wife, Mary. Duren was born in South Carolina about 1804. His wife, Margaret Brothers, was born in Tennessee about 1817. They had a child born in Mississippi in 1845.
By the fall of 1848, Jesse Duren, formerly of Alabama, was buying land in Cherokee County, Texas. He bought a tract from Jane D. Sullivan, the remarried widow of Isaac Killough, Jr. The Killough family group had moved from Talladega County, Alabama, to Cherokee County, Texas in 1837. Eighteen members of the group were killed or captured by a band of renegade Indians, Mexicans and whites on Oct. 5, 1838, in what became known as the Killough Massacre. It is not clear whether the Duren family actually lived in Cherokee County or not. They became well established in Houston County, Texas, where they appear in the 1850 census. The Durens' daughter Mary is shown as being born in Red River County, Texas about 1847.
In the winter of 1847-48, Jesse Duren laid off the town site of Talladega in the northwest corner of Cherokee County, Texas, where the ancient Caddo Trace and the Nacogdoches-Saline Road merged to form a single trail to the Neches River salt marshes.
The same area was the location of the town of Larissa, in the southwest corner of the Absalom Gibson Survey, which was surveyed about the time Talladega, Texas, made its appearance. By 1852, Talladega had lost out as a town, and business was concentrated at Larissa. Larissa was apparently where the Long family settled. At Larissa, Joe Long was remembered as being among the county's first expert cabinet makers.
A newspaper clipping from 1914 gives memories of A. W. Flaniken, written in 1914. He moved to the Larissa neighborhood in 1874. He recalled the town of Larissa "when she had four seperate churches and congregations. The Baptists were on the west side, The Presbyterians were on the north side near Dr. Bone, the Methodists and Cumberlands were on the east near the school house and Mr. Joe Long's Shop."
John Long's family made the move to Texas some time after October of 1852. They were still in Alabama in 1850.
The 1850 census of Benton County, Alabama lists
John Long 43 m Tn overseer
Mary 44 f Ga
J E 20 m Tn
A C 18 f Tn
Delila 15 f Tn
P J 10 f AL
In Benton County, Alabama, Joseph E. Long was married 27 Oct 1852 to Harriet Gosset by Edw. Patton, minister of the Gospel. The Gossett family has not been researched. It appears likely that Harriet's brother James relocated with the Longs.
Census reports from Cherokee County, Texas show:
1860
p 45
#687
Gossett, James 25 m SC carpenter
S.A. 20 f MS kh
M.H. 1 m TX
#689
Joseph Long 30 Tn carpenter son of John Long #697
Hariet 34 SC nee Gossett m Benton Co Ala
Homer 7 TX
Alice 4 TX
George 2 TX
infant 9/12 Tx
Holcomb, J A 21 GA blacksmith
p 46 #697
Long, John 52 m TN mechanic
Mary 54 f SC kh
A.C. 22 f TN kh
1870
p 118 #404
Long, Joseph E 41 m TN work at mill
Harriet M 45 f SC keep house
Homer 17 m Tx sch
Allice 15 f Tx "
George A. 13 m Tx "
Robert 11 m Tx "
Josephene 8 f Tx "
Mary 2 f Tx
Jones, Elizabeth 40 f SC
1880
p 327 #487
Long, J.E. 50 m Tn Tn Tn
Harriett 54 f SC SC SC
G.A. 22 m TX Tn SC
Robert 20 m Tx Tn SC
Josie 17 f Tx Tn SC
Kittie 11 f Tx Tn SC
Jones, Bettie 49 f SC SC SC
Emorson, John F 51 m CN VT VT
Shields, J.M. 53 m OH KY KY
p 287 #201
Long, Homer 26 m TX AL AL
Ottie 24 f AL AL AL
Uno 4 f Tx Tx Al
Thomas 2 m Tx Tx Al
Frank 8/12 m Tx Tx Al
Homer Long married Sarah Artilissa Smyrl Dec. 8 1874, in Cherokee County, Texas. They are found in the 1900 census of Smith County. Sarah was a daughter of Thomas Smyrl and Mary Jane Goode. Thomas Smyrl was killed in the Civil War.
Pct #1 ED 95 line 80
Long, Homer 46 Sep 54 TX
Sarah 45 Mar 55 Ala
Una A 24 Oct 75 Tx
Alice 18 July 81 Tx
Hattie L 16 Aug 83 "
LeRoy 14 Sep 85 "
Minnie 10 Feb 90 "
Smyrl, Mary J m/law 66 Mar 34 Ala
No grave marker has been found in Cherokee County for Joseph E. Long. He does not appear to be in the 1900 census, so presumably was dead before 1900. His wife, Harriet M. Gossett Long is buried at the Old Larissa Cemetery in northwest Cherokee County. Her grave marker gives the dates of 12/2/1824 - 5/23/1887.
Homer Long (1853-1921) and his wife Sarah A Long (1855 - 1932) are buried in Smith County, Texas. Nearby is Sarah's mother, Mary J. Smyrl 1835 - 1907.
No other descendants of John Long have been traced.
JOSEPH LONG, JR.
Joseph Long, Jr. was the twin brother of John, born in Tennessee on December 9, 1807. Joseph Long, Jr. of Lincoln County, Tennessee, named William F. Long as his brother when he made his will in 1838. That clearly identifies him as the son of Joseph Long, Senior, and Catherine Foster.
Joseph Long, Jr. mar-ried Matilda Flack. Matilda Flack was born in 1804 and died in 1873. Matilda was probably the sister of Rufus K. Flack, a partner in Joseph's business, who later lived in Mississippi.
A newspaper in Lincoln County, Tennessee noted on Saturday, August 14, 1830, that the partnership between William F. Long and Joseph Long, Jr. had been dissolved. William F. Long, Rufus K. Flack and Joseph Long, Jr. were partners in the firm of William F. Long & Co. The relation-ship was apparently not unduly strained, however, because the will of Joseph Long, Jr. which was made on September 5, 1838, named "my brother William F. Long and Rufus Flack to be my executors". Joseph's will also directed that his "lands and tanyard...be rented".
The probate of the estate of Joseph Long, Jr. includes a two page long list of people owing notes to the estate. The list includes Timothy O. S. Long, John Long, Henry & J Long, Rufus K. Flack, Mrs. Matilda Long and many others.
After Joseph's death on September 6, 1838, Joseph's widow Matilda married Aug. 21, 1842 Michael Holt in Lincoln County, Tennessee. In the 1850 census, Michael Holt's household included Matilda's children by Joseph Long, Jr., as well as their two daughters, Henrietta Holt (b 1844) and Jane B Holt (b 14 January 1846).
Michael Holt was dead by March of 1855 when his widow, Matilda, was appointed to administer his estate. Matilda Flack Long Holt was dead by 29 January 1874 when Robert Long qualified as the administrator of her estate.
Matilda and Michael Holt's daughter, Jane B. Holt married John A Barrett about 1864. She died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 6 Feb 1928. Jane and John Barrett had three children.
Matilda and Joseph Long, Jr. had four children:
Robert W. 1832-1912
Mary Ann
William R.
Albert J.
Robert W. Long is buried in Lincoln County, Tennessee, in the Petersburg Cemetery. His tombstone reads "Feb. 12 1832-Feb. 20, 1912 A Confederate Soldier". His wife is also buried there: Tabitha Long November 10, 1836 - December 9, 1916. In Lincoln County, Robert W. Long married Tabitha Bledsoe October 22, 1857. According to Goodspeed, their children were Alva M (Mrs. J. C. Moore), Nora I. (Mrs. C. A. Talley), Thomas A., Fannie E. (Mrs. O. B. Taylor), James B., Helen B. and Affa C.
The 1880 census of Lincoln County, Tennessee, shows E D 124 Sheet 26:
228 Long, Rob't 46 Tn Tn Tn
Tabitha 44 wife Tn NC NC
Iva 21 dau Tn Tn Tn
Nora 18 dau " " "
Thos. A. 14 son " " "
Fannie S. 12 dau " " "
Jinnie B 10 dau " " "
Ellen 7 dau " " "
Alford 3 son " " "
It appears that either the person taking the information for the biographical sketch or the census taker got some of the children's names wrong. In this case, the census is probably more accurate.
JAMES LONG
James Long was born November 5, 1809. He married Margaret Gore 1 July 1827. She was probably a sister of John Gore, who married Margaret Long, and Hannah Gore who married John Long.
James and John Long were believed to be children of Joseph and Catherine Long even before the Baker/Long Bible was found. They were administrators of the estate of William F. Long. They were closely associated with each other and family members in Tennessee and Alabama. The family history compiled by Enid Long Barker names John first as a brother to William F. Long.
The Mt. Pisgah Methodist Church deed from Bedford County, Tennessee, includes a James Long on the list of commissioners along with Henry Long, John Gore and William S. Carpenter. In the 1830 census of Bedford County, Tennessee, a James Long lived near Henry Long, Mary Long and William Carpenter, and Anna Long and Andrew Whittenburg.
In that census, James' household consists of a man 20-30 years old, with three children under 10, a woman in his age group, plus a man and woman each 60-70 years old. It seems probable that James is the 20 to 30 year old, and the older couple are Joseph Long and his second wife, Agnes Lane Kimsey.
James Long was 21 in November of 1830. One of the boys in the census was 5 to 10 years old. That boy was probably not James' son. He could have been Margaret's from a previous marriage.
The marriage records of Talladega County, Alabama, show a James Long married Margaret M. Park in January 1841 and John Long married Mary Davis in October 1837. The 1840 census of Talladega County lists John Long and James Long side by side.
James' household has two men age 30-40, one woman that age, and ten younger persons. John and his wife are both 30-40 years of age, with thirteen younger people. The known children of Mary Long Carpen-ter and Anna Long Whitten-burg account for all the children listed with the Carpenter and Whittenburg families. If William F. Long's children were in Alabama in 1840, they were not living with his sisters Mary and Anna, but could have been with James and John.
In Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Margaret Townsend married George Park on 7 February 1826. George Park died before 1840. The marriage of James Long and Margaret M. Park was recorded 25 January 1841. That means that James' wife, Margaret Gore Long, died soon after the census in 1840, leaving him with young children. His marriage to the widowed Margaret Townsend Park soon after was not unusual, but may not have promoted warm feelings in his children. The fact that they are not found with Margaret Townsend Long after James' death is not surprising. In 1830 those children were a boy 5-10 and a girl and boy each under 5. By 1850, the older boy would be 25-30 and the younger two siblings, 20-25. As concluded earlier, the older boy was probably not James' son.
The 1850 census of Talladega County includes two possible candidates for those sons of James Long. John B. Long, age 25, born in Tennessee lived with the physician Robert W. White, 27, and his wife Frances C., 25. A young man named William F. Long, age 20, born in Tennessee, a carpenter, was living with Ben F. Burns. John B. and William F. Long are not members of the family of Jeremiah Long which was numerous in that county. They would be interesting to pursue.
In the 1840 census of Talladega County, Alabama, Margaret Park, (age 30-40) is head of household with four children, three boys and a girl. She is enumerated next after Thomas Williamson (age 40-50) who appears to have a wife (age 30-40) and four children who are a little younger than Margaret Park's. Thomas Williamson's wife was Elizabeth Townsend (1805-1843), Margaret's sister. Margaret and Elizabeth were daughters of John and Martha Wilkinson Townsend of Floyd County, Georgia.
On 29 February 1844, Thomas W Williamson was named guardian of John T., Washington L., Francis M and Martha A PARK, heirs of George Park of Walton County, Georgia. They would be the four children enumerated with their mother in 1840.
When James Long was named administrator of William F. Long's estate in Alabama, the securities on his bond were John Long and John H. Townsend. John H. Townsend was apparently James Long's brother-in-law. This seems to be a good confirmation that the James Long who administered William F. Long's estate was the same one who married Margaret Park.
James died 18 February 1849, according to the Baker/Long Bible.
After James' death, Margaret moved back to Georgia. The 1850 census of Paulding County, Georgia shows James' widow living next to her brother, Richard Pryor H Townsend and his family. Richard bought land in Clark County, Arkansas, and built a home there for his family in the early 1850's. He reportedly died about 1853, but his wife and children went on to Arkansas and are there in the 1860 census. His death may have been part of the reason Margaret left for Texas.
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Townsend,
Richard P H 33 m farmer GA 6400
Minerva E 30 f "
Sherwood H 10 m "
John W 8 m "
James 6 m "
Sarah 4 f "
Asa T/L 2 m "
George T 4/12 m "
#471
Margaret Long wid 45 f Ga
Francis 18 m farmer Ga
Margaret 12 f Ga
Henry 6 m Ga
The oldest of the children in Margaret's household appears to be Francis Park, named in the 1844 guardianship case cited above. Of these children living with Margaret, only Henry appears to have been born after her marriage to James Long, and so would be his only heir. But the daughter Margaret used the name Long, and was reportedly born in November of 1841, nine months and two weeks after James' and Margaret's marriage. The evidence suggests that the age given for daughter Margaret in this 1850 census is wrong, and that she too is an heir of James Long. She should be shown as 8 or 9. James H. is, no doubt, James Henry.
In 1860, the census of Floyd County, GA shows:
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Margaret Long 50 f widdo GA
Margaret J 18 f AL
James H. 16 m AL
L. Ruth Park 14 f AL
Jack Eason 17 m boarder GA
Augustus Eason 17 m " GA
Martha Eason 13 f " GA
Wm L. Eason 4 m " GA
Winnie ?ades 60 f " SC
Court records in Talladega County, Alabama, extracted by Gandrud and Jones show January Term 1848 Book 16, Part 1, p. 172...
JAMES LONG resided in Talladega up to last of Jan. 1842, when he removed to Randolph County where he remained until the last of Jan. 1844; he then returned to Talladega County and has resided there ever since. He administered on the estate of Wm. F. Long after latter's death, about Sept. 1841. Present suit was instituted in Jan. 1844.
In February of 1845, a suit against James Long and Thomas Gore was brought to Chancery Court of Bedford County, Tennessee, by Mary Temple, the widow of James' brother, William F. Long. She was seeking to enjoin the collection of a note which "was executed in part consideration of the interest of James Long, in certain lands and mills in Alabama, which was a equitable interest and assigned to her without any recourse upon said Long, and with full knowledge on her part of the state and character of the title." The bill was ordered dismissed and the defendants were allowed to "recover of her and John S. Frazer her security in the injunction bond the costs of this cause and suit." John S. Frazer was the guardian of Mary's children William P and Jane T. Temple, minor heirs of Dempsey P. Temple.
These records indicate that James Long died between the 1845 court suit and 1850, when Margaret was in Georgia near her brother. We do not know why Margaret Townsend Long and her daughter, Margaret, went to Texas. The marriage of James' daughter, Margaret Long, to Mr. Phillips has not been documented.
The Colorado County, Texas, marriage records show William Wallace Townsend married A. E. Woolsey March 2, 1864 and then married Mrs. M. J. Phillips November 22, 1870. A Townsend family genealogy by Tula Townsend Wyatt, printed in 1974, says, Captain William Wallace Townsend married in Colorado County Mrs. Margaret Long Phillips on November 22, 1870; she was born in Floyd County, Georgia, November 11, 1841. Her first husband was N. J. Phillips who was killed by "carpet baggers" in June 1865. She died in San Antonio, Texas, January 6, 1924. By Mr. Phillips she had one child, Mollie, born March 19, 1865, who married O. H. Hector on November 30, 1886, at Columbus, Texas. Mollie died September 1, 1926, at Alpine Texas.
It is possible that the researcher read the marriage record for "Mrs. M. J. Phillips" as "N. J." and assumed those were Phillips' initials when they were, in fact Margaret's. Until we find an independent record of that marriage, we will not be certain of Mr. Phillips' first name or initials.
The Confederate Veteran series relates that William Wallace Townsend was married in January, 1864, to Miss Addie Woolsey, and when the war closed they went to Tuxpan, Mexico. She died there in 1867, leaving an infant son, whose father brought him back to Texas, ri.".2Old Bible Record found with the Long/Baker family.. "An old Bible record found with a member of the Long/Baker family shows that Joseph Long and Catherine Foster married on December 5, 1793. According to that record, Joseph was born July 23, 1770 and died January 6, 1837. Catherine was born January 17, 1770. Her date death is difficult to read in the Long/Baker Bible, but was given as August 25, 1811 in a record found in the Carpenter family. The Bible gives her age at death as 41 years, 7 months and some days, which are crumbled away. August of 1811 is 41 years and 7 months from January 1770.". "Bob and Tory Crook tbcrook@airmail.net."
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