When Mary Jane Long was born on 2 October 1812, in Greene, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jeremiah Long, was 56 and her mother, Jane Jones, was 24. She married Manning D. Martin on 24 March 1832, in Tyler, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Ellsworth District, Tyler, West Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 6 February 1890, in Tyler, Virginia, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Lazear Chapel Cemetery, Kidwell, Tyler, West Virginia, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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.
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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