William Bartley Long

Brief Life History of William Bartley

William Bartley Long was born on 10 June 1897, in Tennessee, United States. He married Sara Etta Hughett on 6 December 1918, in Grainger, Tennessee, United States. He lived in Gaston, North Carolina, United States in 1920 and Hamblen, Tennessee, United States in 1930. He died on 8 June 1969, in Morristown, Hamblen, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Emma Jarnagin Cemetery, Morristown, Hamblen, Tennessee, United States.

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William Bartley Long
1897–1969
Sara Etta Hughett
1898–1984
Marriage: 6 December 1918

Sources (11)

  • Will Long in household of John H Hughett, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Willie Long, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • William Long, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

Name Meaning

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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