Silas Clifford Long

Brief Life History of Silas Clifford

When Silas Clifford Long was born on 1 November 1855, in Mount Pleasant, Maury, Tennessee, United States, his father, Lemuel R. Long, was 56 and his mother, Saccharissa Martin, was 36. He married Frances Ann "Fanny" McClanahan on 28 June 1883, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. He lived in Civil District 3, Maury, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Civil District 7, Marion, Tennessee, United States in 1930. He died on 10 July 1937, in Mount Pleasant, Maury, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mount Pleasant, Maury, Tennessee, United States.

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Silas Clifford Long
1855–1937
Frances Ann "Fanny" McClanahan
1862–1939
Marriage: 28 June 1883

Sources (12)

  • S Clifford Long, "United States, Census, 1930"
  • S C Long, "Tennessee, State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
  • Clifford Lang, "Tennessee, Deaths, 1914-1966"

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World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

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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