Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Long was born in 1843, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Richard Long, was 57 and her mother, Charlotte Hatfield, was 36. She lived in Jefferson, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. She died on 14 July 1851, at the age of 8.
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- Rebecca Long in household of Richard Long, "United States Census, 1850"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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