When Peter Gilead Long Jr. was born on 23 March 1833, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States, his father, Michael Long, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Wood, was 25. He married Martha Caroline Johnson in 1856, in Towns, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Jackson, North Carolina, United States in 1860. He died on 17 July 1862, in Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
Possible Related NamesPeter Gilead Long was killed in civil war, age 27. 25th NC Regiment; H. A. Boone, Captain, "Seven Pines," "Seven Days Fight," "Melvin's Hill," "7" Miles North of Richmond, VA. Wounded in hip and liv …
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