When Mary Elizabeth Long was born on 31 May 1842, in Ohio, United States, her father, George Long, was 35 and her mother, Rosanna Bridwell, was 39. She married William H Holdren on 25 June 1861, in Ross, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Concord Township, Ross, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Bloomingburg, Paint Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 8 December 1915, in Buckskin Township, Ross, Ohio, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Bloomingburg, Paint Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States.
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English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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