According to his Social Security application, Clyde Harlan Long was born in Wells Spring, Morrow County, Oregon on December 2, 1874, and his parents are Elizabeth Burt and David Alexander Long.* Elizabeth "Ella" Burt was unmarried and 16 years old at the time of Clyde H. Long's birth, though she would go on to marry David Alexander Long in 1879--five years after Clyde H. Long was born.
I have been unable to find any records of Clyde Harlan Long before 1917. If Clyde H. Long was indeed born in Oregon, it seems that the pregnant and unmarried Elizabeth Burt was sent on the Oregon Trail to stay with her Burt and Bonsor relatives who had settled out there years before, but she must have given birth on the trail before she arrived (in Morrow County). Elizabeth Burt must have returned to Missouri without her child, and after marrying in 1879, she and David Alexander Long would go on to have another son, who they also named Clyde Long, in 1883. Clyde Harlan Long may have spent his youth in Oregon with his maternal relatives.
The first record I can find of Clyde Harlan Long is his 1917-1918 draft registration card in Reno, Kansas, in which he listed his year of birth as 1884 (making him ten years younger than he actually was). He listed his sister, Virginia (Long) Crews, as his next of kin, indicating that he was in touch with his birth family at this time. In 1918, he was living in Hutchinson, Kansas, and his address was published in the local paper.
In June 1919, Clyde Harlan Long married Ella Mae Ools in Pawnee County, Oklahoma. The marriage record lists Clyde's age as 23, even though he was actually 45 at this time. Ella Mae was only 16 (and seven months pregnant), so her father signed the marriage license for her. The two would go on to have six sons: Willard Harlan Long (1919-1969), Clyde Harlan Long, Jr. (1922-1927), Gearl Dean "Cotton" Long (1924-1973), David Alfred Long (1928-2001), Wyatt Duane "Shorty" Long (1932-2010), and Omar Leon Long (1935-1976). They settled in Marshall, Garfield County, Missouri. Clyde's occupation in the 1930 and 1940 Censuses is listed as "carpenter."
Clyde Harlan Long died April 12, 1943, after a three-week long illness in a hospital in Oklahoma City. His death certificate lists his cause of death as "post-operative bronchopneumonia."
*DNA tests show that he is indeed related to the Burt and Long families, so these do seem to be his birth parents, though he was not raised in their household.
I have been unable to find any records of Clyde Harlan Long before 1917. If Clyde H. Long was indeed born in Oregon, it seems that the pregnant and unmarried Elizabeth Burt was sent on the Oregon Trail to stay with her Burt and Bonsor relatives who had settled out there years before, but she must have given birth on the trail before she arrived (in Morrow County). Elizabeth Burt must have returned to Missouri without her child, and after marrying in 1879, she and David Alexander Long would go on to have another son, who they also named Clyde Long, in 1883. Clyde Harlan Long may have spent his youth in Oregon with his maternal relatives.
The first record I can find of Clyde Harlan Long is his 1917-1918 draft registration card in Reno, Kansas, in which he listed his year of birth as 1884 (making him ten years younger than he actually was). He listed his sister, Virginia (Long) Crews, as his next of kin, indicating that he was in touch with his birth family at this time. In 1918, he was living in Hutchinson, Kansas, and his address was published in the local paper.
In June 1919, Clyde Harlan Long married Ella Mae Ools in Pawnee County, Oklahoma. The marriage record lists Clyde's age as 23, even though he was actually 45 at this time. Ella Mae was only 16 (and seven months pregnant), so her father signed the marriage license for her. The two would go on to have six sons: Willard Harlan Long (1919-1969), Clyde Harlan Long, Jr. (1922-1927), Gearl Dean "Cotton" Long (1924-1973), David Alfred Long (1928-2001), Wyatt Duane "Shorty" Long (1932-2010), and Omar Leon Long (1935-1976). They settled in Marshall, Garfield County, Missouri. Clyde's occupation in the 1930 and 1940 Censuses is listed as "carpenter."
Clyde Harlan Long died April 12, 1943, after a three-week long illness in a hospital in Oklahoma City. His death certificate lists his cause of death as "post-operative bronchopneumonia."
*DNA tests show that he is indeed related to the Burt and Long families, so these do seem to be his birth parents, though he was not raised in their household.
According to his Social Security application, Clyde Harlan Long was born in Wells Spring, Morrow County, Oregon on December 2, 1874, and his parents are Elizabeth Burt and David Alexander Long.* Elizabeth "Ella" Burt was unmarried and 16 years old at the time of Clyde H. Long's birth, though she would go on to marry David Alexander Long in 1879--five years after Clyde H. Long was born.
I have been unable to find any records of Clyde Harlan Long before 1917. If Clyde H. Long was indeed born in Oregon, it seems that the pregnant and unmarried Elizabeth Burt was sent on the Oregon Trail to stay with her Burt and Bonsor relatives who had settled out there years before, but she must have given birth on the trail before she arrived (in Morrow County). Elizabeth Burt must have returned to Missouri without her child, and after marrying in 1879, she and David Alexander Long would go on to have another son, who they also named Clyde Long, in 1883. Clyde Harlan Long may have spent his youth in Oregon with his maternal relatives.
The first record I can find of Clyde Harlan Long is his 1917-1918 draft registration card in Reno, Kansas, in which he listed his year of birth as 1884 (making him ten years younger than he actually was). He listed his sister, Virginia (Long) Crews, as his next of kin, indicating that he was in touch with his birth family at this time. In 1918, he was living in Hutchinson, Kansas, and his address was published in the local paper.
In June 1919, Clyde Harlan Long married Ella Mae Ools in Pawnee County, Oklahoma. The marriage record lists Clyde's age as 23, even though he was actually 45 at this time. Ella Mae was only 16 (and seven months pregnant), so her father signed the marriage license for her. The two would go on to have six sons: Willard Harlan Long (1919-1969), Clyde Harlan Long, Jr. (1922-1927), Gearl Dean "Cotton" Long (1924-1973), David Alfred Long (1928-2001), Wyatt Duane "Shorty" Long (1932-2010), and Omar Leon Long (1935-1976). They settled in Marshall, Garfield County, Missouri. Clyde's occupation in the 1930 and 1940 Censuses is listed as "carpenter."
Clyde Harlan Long died April 12, 1943, after a three-week long illness in a hospital in Oklahoma City. His death certificate lists his cause of death as "post-operative bronchopneumonia."
*DNA tests show that he is indeed related to the Burt and Long families, so these do seem to be his birth parents, though he was not raised in their household.
I have been unable to find any records of Clyde Harlan Long before 1917. If Clyde H. Long was indeed born in Oregon, it seems that the pregnant and unmarried Elizabeth Burt was sent on the Oregon Trail to stay with her Burt and Bonsor relatives who had settled out there years before, but she must have given birth on the trail before she arrived (in Morrow County). Elizabeth Burt must have returned to Missouri without her child, and after marrying in 1879, she and David Alexander Long would go on to have another son, who they also named Clyde Long, in 1883. Clyde Harlan Long may have spent his youth in Oregon with his maternal relatives.
The first record I can find of Clyde Harlan Long is his 1917-1918 draft registration card in Reno, Kansas, in which he listed his year of birth as 1884 (making him ten years younger than he actually was). He listed his sister, Virginia (Long) Crews, as his next of kin, indicating that he was in touch with his birth family at this time. In 1918, he was living in Hutchinson, Kansas, and his address was published in the local paper.
In June 1919, Clyde Harlan Long married Ella Mae Ools in Pawnee County, Oklahoma. The marriage record lists Clyde's age as 23, even though he was actually 45 at this time. Ella Mae was only 16 (and seven months pregnant), so her father signed the marriage license for her. The two would go on to have six sons: Willard Harlan Long (1919-1969), Clyde Harlan Long, Jr. (1922-1927), Gearl Dean "Cotton" Long (1924-1973), David Alfred Long (1928-2001), Wyatt Duane "Shorty" Long (1932-2010), and Omar Leon Long (1935-1976). They settled in Marshall, Garfield County, Missouri. Clyde's occupation in the 1930 and 1940 Censuses is listed as "carpenter."
Clyde Harlan Long died April 12, 1943, after a three-week long illness in a hospital in Oklahoma City. His death certificate lists his cause of death as "post-operative bronchopneumonia."
*DNA tests show that he is indeed related to the Burt and Long families, so these do seem to be his birth parents, though he was not raised in their household.
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