When Mary Jane Long was born on 24 September 1855, in Jefferson, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Long, was 31 and her mother, Mary Jane Robert, was 28. She married Rolla Broadwater Cole on 9 March 1871, in Washington, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Valle Township, Jefferson, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 5 December 1928, in Blackwell, St. Francois, Missouri, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Masonic Cemetery, Kingston Township, Washington, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1858: St. Francois, Missouri, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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