When Martha Jane Long was born on 4 March 1847, in Wetzel, West Virginia, United States, her father, Samuel Jones Long Senior, was 33 and her mother, Mary Belle Furbee, was 28. She married Clement Foster Clark on 12 May 1867, in Greene, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Proctor, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Green District, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 31 January 1929, in Wood, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mcclung Cemetery, Reedy, Roane, West Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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