Daughter of Martha Long and "Swartz" (sic) according to records at the Staunton courthouse; Married June 14, 1904 to James Wm Croushorn. Family tradition holds she was orphaned possibly. Alice was a musician and played a pump organ made in Staunton for guests in their home at Catlett to sing hymns to. Because of her diabetes, the doctor recommended a change of climate, so Granddaddy moved from the Valley to Fauquier County about 1916. Of course, her diabetes progressed anyhow. (She died a few years before insulin was widely available.)
Alice was also a wonderful cook and seamstress. She married James Wm Croushorn in June 1904. She was his 2nd wife (his first wife having died in 1898). Their children: Roscoe Clinton born 1905, William Frederick born 1908, Charles Walter born 1909, and Evalena Croushorn Heflin born 1914, my mother. Alice Croushorn died at age 40 of diabetic coma at the family farm on Cedar Run in Fauquier County, VA. The old farmhouse was still there a decade ago and that area was used as a hunting preserve. (birds I think)
Update 2012: I believe your father was James Swartz but that is not certain. The Long family is one of the oldest and most distinguished families in the Valley of Virginia. Their name was originally LANG (Scotch Irish). The Longs helped settle the Valley when it was still a wild area - that is, there were not a huge number of white settlers and dangers abounded.
Alice was also a wonderful cook and seamstress. She married James Wm Croushorn in June 1904. She was his 2nd wife (his first wife having died in 1898). Their children: Roscoe Clinton born 1905, William Frederick born 1908, Charles Walter born 1909, and Evalena Croushorn Heflin born 1914, my mother. Alice Croushorn died at age 40 of diabetic coma at the family farm on Cedar Run in Fauquier County, VA. The old farmhouse was still there a decade ago and that area was used as a hunting preserve. (birds I think)
Update 2012: I believe your father was James Swartz but that is not certain. The Long family is one of the oldest and most distinguished families in the Valley of Virginia. Their name was originally LANG (Scotch Irish). The Longs helped settle the Valley when it was still a wild area - that is, there were not a huge number of white settlers and dangers abounded.
Daughter of Martha Long and "Swartz" (sic) according to records at the Staunton courthouse; Married June 14, 1904 to James Wm Croushorn. Family tradition holds she was orphaned possibly. Alice was a musician and played a pump organ made in Staunton for guests in their home at Catlett to sing hymns to. Because of her diabetes, the doctor recommended a change of climate, so Granddaddy moved from the Valley to Fauquier County about 1916. Of course, her diabetes progressed anyhow. (She died a few years before insulin was widely available.)
Alice was also a wonderful cook and seamstress. She married James Wm Croushorn in June 1904. She was his 2nd wife (his first wife having died in 1898). Their children: Roscoe Clinton born 1905, William Frederick born 1908, Charles Walter born 1909, and Evalena Croushorn Heflin born 1914, my mother. Alice Croushorn died at age 40 of diabetic coma at the family farm on Cedar Run in Fauquier County, VA. The old farmhouse was still there a decade ago and that area was used as a hunting preserve. (birds I think)
Update 2012: I believe your father was James Swartz but that is not certain. The Long family is one of the oldest and most distinguished families in the Valley of Virginia. Their name was originally LANG (Scotch Irish). The Longs helped settle the Valley when it was still a wild area - that is, there were not a huge number of white settlers and dangers abounded.
Alice was also a wonderful cook and seamstress. She married James Wm Croushorn in June 1904. She was his 2nd wife (his first wife having died in 1898). Their children: Roscoe Clinton born 1905, William Frederick born 1908, Charles Walter born 1909, and Evalena Croushorn Heflin born 1914, my mother. Alice Croushorn died at age 40 of diabetic coma at the family farm on Cedar Run in Fauquier County, VA. The old farmhouse was still there a decade ago and that area was used as a hunting preserve. (birds I think)
Update 2012: I believe your father was James Swartz but that is not certain. The Long family is one of the oldest and most distinguished families in the Valley of Virginia. Their name was originally LANG (Scotch Irish). The Longs helped settle the Valley when it was still a wild area - that is, there were not a huge number of white settlers and dangers abounded.
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