Brief Life History of Kenton Crooks
When Kenton Crooks DeLong was born on 30 July 1890, in Crooksville, Perry, Ohio, United States, his father, James Franklin De Long, was 31 and his mother, Susanna Bowers Crooks, was 30. He married Mary Jane Calhoun on 8 July 1918, in Crooksville, Perry, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Harrison Township, Perry, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 23 September 1965, in Massillon, Stark, Ohio, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Massillon, Stark, Ohio, United States.
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- Kenton C Delong in household of Sue B Delong, "United States Census, 1910"
- Kenton Crooks Delong, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Kenton C Delong, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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1898 · War with the Spanish
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Name Meaning
French: habitational name, with fused preposition de ‘from’, denoting someone from a place called Long, of which there are examples in Cher, Dordogne, and Somme.
Americanized form of Dutch and Flemish De Lange 1 and of its Flemish cognate De Langhe, which is also found in France (Nord and Pas-de-Calais).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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