The following biographical information was found at the URL http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pearidger/history/gdlctbio.shtml which is the "Lincoln County Biographical Index to Goodspeed's History of Tennessee"
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NOTES: R. W. LONG is a son of Joseph Long, who was born in North Carolina **(see Comment), and came to Tennessee and married Matilda Flack. The mother was born in 1804 and died in 1873. Our subject received a common school education, and after a marriage, on October 22, 1857, in Lincoln County, Tennessee to Tabitha Bledsoe, he tilled the home farm for his mother, who was a widow.
- His wife was born near Petersburg, November 10, 1836, and seven children blessed her union with Mr. Long: Alva M. (Mrs. J. C. Moore), Nora (Mrs. C. A. Talley), Thomas A., Fannie E. (Mrs. O. B. Taylor), James B., Helen B. and Affa C. In 1872 our subject and family moved onto their present farm of 200 acres, comprising seven acres of all kinds of fruit trees.
- Mr. Long has given his children good educational advantages, is Conservative in politics, voting rather for the man than the party. He served in the late war in Company F., Forty-first Tennessee Infantry, and took an active part in the battles of Fort Donelson, Franklin, Nashville and several minor engagements. He was captured at the fall of Fort Donelson, and imprisoned seven months at Lafayette and Indianapolis, In. He was the wagonmaster in the quartermaster's department two years. He returned home in the fall of 1864. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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** COMMENT: From Find A Grave Contributor Tory in Texas
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In memorial #66598319 for Robert W. Long, the birthplace of his father, Joseph Long, Jr. is given as North Carolina. I am convinced that it should be Tennessee. Family Bible records, land deed records, and all other data I have gathered indicates his family of origin came from Virginia to Bedford County, Tennessee without stopping in North Carolina.
In the 1880 census, both his parents are shown as born in Tennessee. That is probably correct, as his twin and next older sibling are reportedly born in Tennessee.
The information in the Goodspeed article is apparently mistaken in this regard, but it is good to have the whole thing posted. Since Robert's father, Joseph Long, Jr. died in 1838, he had been gone a long time when the article was written. I can imagine the interviewer asking where Robert's parents were born and getting North Carolina for his mother and maybe getting that mixed up when he wrote out his report. Even the census takers got birthplaces wrong at times.
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NOTES: R. W. LONG is a son of Joseph Long, who was born in North Carolina **(see Comment), and came to Tennessee and married Matilda Flack. The mother was born in 1804 and died in 1873. Our subject received a common school education, and after a marriage, on October 22, 1857, in Lincoln County, Tennessee to Tabitha Bledsoe, he tilled the home farm for his mother, who was a widow.
- His wife was born near Petersburg, November 10, 1836, and seven children blessed her union with Mr. Long: Alva M. (Mrs. J. C. Moore), Nora (Mrs. C. A. Talley), Thomas A., Fannie E. (Mrs. O. B. Taylor), James B., Helen B. and Affa C. In 1872 our subject and family moved onto their present farm of 200 acres, comprising seven acres of all kinds of fruit trees.
- Mr. Long has given his children good educational advantages, is Conservative in politics, voting rather for the man than the party. He served in the late war in Company F., Forty-first Tennessee Infantry, and took an active part in the battles of Fort Donelson, Franklin, Nashville and several minor engagements. He was captured at the fall of Fort Donelson, and imprisoned seven months at Lafayette and Indianapolis, In. He was the wagonmaster in the quartermaster's department two years. He returned home in the fall of 1864. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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** COMMENT: From Find A Grave Contributor Tory in Texas
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In memorial #66598319 for Robert W. Long, the birthplace of his father, Joseph Long, Jr. is given as North Carolina. I am convinced that it should be Tennessee. Family Bible records, land deed records, and all other data I have gathered indicates his family of origin came from Virginia to Bedford County, Tennessee without stopping in North Carolina.
In the 1880 census, both his parents are shown as born in Tennessee. That is probably correct, as his twin and next older sibling are reportedly born in Tennessee.
The information in the Goodspeed article is apparently mistaken in this regard, but it is good to have the whole thing posted. Since Robert's father, Joseph Long, Jr. died in 1838, he had been gone a long time when the article was written. I can imagine the interviewer asking where Robert's parents were born and getting North Carolina for his mother and maybe getting that mixed up when he wrote out his report. Even the census takers got birthplaces wrong at times.
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The following biographical information was found at the URL http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pearidger/history/gdlctbio.shtml which is the "Lincoln County Biographical Index to Goodspeed's History of Tennessee"
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NOTES: R. W. LONG is a son of Joseph Long, who was born in North Carolina **(see Comment), and came to Tennessee and married Matilda Flack. The mother was born in 1804 and died in 1873. Our subject received a common school education, and after a marriage, on October 22, 1857, in Lincoln County, Tennessee to Tabitha Bledsoe, he tilled the home farm for his mother, who was a widow.
- His wife was born near Petersburg, November 10, 1836, and seven children blessed her union with Mr. Long: Alva M. (Mrs. J. C. Moore), Nora (Mrs. C. A. Talley), Thomas A., Fannie E. (Mrs. O. B. Taylor), James B., Helen B. and Affa C. In 1872 our subject and family moved onto their present farm of 200 acres, comprising seven acres of all kinds of fruit trees.
- Mr. Long has given his children good educational advantages, is Conservative in politics, voting rather for the man than the party. He served in the late war in Company F., Forty-first Tennessee Infantry, and took an active part in the battles of Fort Donelson, Franklin, Nashville and several minor engagements. He was captured at the fall of Fort Donelson, and imprisoned seven months at Lafayette and Indianapolis, In. He was the wagonmaster in the quartermaster's department two years. He returned home in the fall of 1864. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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** COMMENT: From Find A Grave Contributor Tory in Texas
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In memorial #66598319 for Robert W. Long, the birthplace of his father, Joseph Long, Jr. is given as North Carolina. I am convinced that it should be Tennessee. Family Bible records, land deed records, and all other data I have gathered indicates his family of origin came from Virginia to Bedford County, Tennessee without stopping in North Carolina.
In the 1880 census, both his parents are shown as born in Tennessee. That is probably correct, as his twin and next older sibling are reportedly born in Tennessee.
The information in the Goodspeed article is apparently mistaken in this regard, but it is good to have the whole thing posted. Since Robert's father, Joseph Long, Jr. died in 1838, he had been gone a long time when the article was written. I can imagine the interviewer asking where Robert's parents were born and getting North Carolina for his mother and maybe getting that mixed up when he wrote out his report. Even the census takers got birthplaces wrong at times.
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NOTES: R. W. LONG is a son of Joseph Long, who was born in North Carolina **(see Comment), and came to Tennessee and married Matilda Flack. The mother was born in 1804 and died in 1873. Our subject received a common school education, and after a marriage, on October 22, 1857, in Lincoln County, Tennessee to Tabitha Bledsoe, he tilled the home farm for his mother, who was a widow.
- His wife was born near Petersburg, November 10, 1836, and seven children blessed her union with Mr. Long: Alva M. (Mrs. J. C. Moore), Nora (Mrs. C. A. Talley), Thomas A., Fannie E. (Mrs. O. B. Taylor), James B., Helen B. and Affa C. In 1872 our subject and family moved onto their present farm of 200 acres, comprising seven acres of all kinds of fruit trees.
- Mr. Long has given his children good educational advantages, is Conservative in politics, voting rather for the man than the party. He served in the late war in Company F., Forty-first Tennessee Infantry, and took an active part in the battles of Fort Donelson, Franklin, Nashville and several minor engagements. He was captured at the fall of Fort Donelson, and imprisoned seven months at Lafayette and Indianapolis, In. He was the wagonmaster in the quartermaster's department two years. He returned home in the fall of 1864. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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** COMMENT: From Find A Grave Contributor Tory in Texas
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In memorial #66598319 for Robert W. Long, the birthplace of his father, Joseph Long, Jr. is given as North Carolina. I am convinced that it should be Tennessee. Family Bible records, land deed records, and all other data I have gathered indicates his family of origin came from Virginia to Bedford County, Tennessee without stopping in North Carolina.
In the 1880 census, both his parents are shown as born in Tennessee. That is probably correct, as his twin and next older sibling are reportedly born in Tennessee.
The information in the Goodspeed article is apparently mistaken in this regard, but it is good to have the whole thing posted. Since Robert's father, Joseph Long, Jr. died in 1838, he had been gone a long time when the article was written. I can imagine the interviewer asking where Robert's parents were born and getting North Carolina for his mother and maybe getting that mixed up when he wrote out his report. Even the census takers got birthplaces wrong at times.
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