When Jayne Marie Long was born on 14 September 1937, in Wolfe, Kentucky, United States, her father, Commodore Dewey Long, was 38 and her mother, Cora Lee Gevedon, was 38. She died on 6 May 1982, in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Long Cemetery, Campton, Wolfe, Kentucky, United States.
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.
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