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LT Edwin Ramsay Long Veteran

Birth
Death
11 Mar 1846 (aged 35–36)
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section G Lot 129
Memorial ID
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USMA Class of 1829. Cullum No. 579.

Interment per Portrait and Biographical Album of Isabella County, Michigan.
Lieut. E.R. Long graduated from Rush Medical College at Chicago and planed to resign his commission. In a post-mortem examination he cut his finger resulting in an infection from which he died. Lieut. I.R.D. Burnett who cared for him caught the infection and died a week later. Both are buried in Elmwood Cemetery.
Age 36 years.

He was the son of John Long and Sabra Ramsay Long.
He was married to Phebe Ann Fitch.
They were the parents of four children including Caroline Sabra Long and John Osmond Long, USMA Class of 1854, Cullum No. 1661 (born October 30, 1832 and died April 3, 1875) in Tampa, Florida.
After his death Phebe Fitch Long married William Lovering Jr.

Raleigh Register April 10, 1846
Died at Detroit, in the 37th year of his age, Lieut. Edwin R. Long, of the United States Army, son of the Hon. John Long, of Randolph County, North Carolina.
USMA Class of 1829. Cullum No. 579.

Interment per Portrait and Biographical Album of Isabella County, Michigan.
Lieut. E.R. Long graduated from Rush Medical College at Chicago and planed to resign his commission. In a post-mortem examination he cut his finger resulting in an infection from which he died. Lieut. I.R.D. Burnett who cared for him caught the infection and died a week later. Both are buried in Elmwood Cemetery.
Age 36 years.

He was the son of John Long and Sabra Ramsay Long.
He was married to Phebe Ann Fitch.
They were the parents of four children including Caroline Sabra Long and John Osmond Long, USMA Class of 1854, Cullum No. 1661 (born October 30, 1832 and died April 3, 1875) in Tampa, Florida.
After his death Phebe Fitch Long married William Lovering Jr.

Raleigh Register April 10, 1846
Died at Detroit, in the 37th year of his age, Lieut. Edwin R. Long, of the United States Army, son of the Hon. John Long, of Randolph County, North Carolina.


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