Martha Jane Long

Brief Life History of Martha Jane

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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Family Time Line

Clement Foster Clark
1840–1907
Martha Jane Long
1847–1929
Marriage: 12 May 1867
William J. Clark
1868–
I. J. William Clark
1876–1878
Olla May Clark
1872–1877
Della May Clark
1872–1877
Mary Harriet Clark
1875–1937
Ora Gay Clark
1878–1919
Jesse L. Clark
1882–1884
Jessie L. Clark
1882–1884
Minnie Ethel Clark
1885–1978

Sources (26)

  • Martha J Clark, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1940
  • Martha Jane Long Clark, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1861 · The Battle of Manassas

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. 

1863

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

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

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.

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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