Lincoln County TN Archives Biographies.....Long, R. W. 
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LONG, FLACK, BLEDSOE, MOORE, TALLEY, TAYLOR



R. W. LONG is a son of Joseph LONG, who was born in North Carolina, and

came to Tennessee and married Matilda FLACK.  The mother was born in 1804

and died in 1873.  Our subject received a common school education, and

after his marriage, in 1857, to Tabitha BLEDSOE, he tilled the home farm

for his mother, who was a widow.  His wife was born near Petersburg,

November 10, 1836, and seven children blessed her union with Mr. LONG:

Alva M. (Mrs. J. C. MOORE), Nora I. (Mrs. C A. TALLEY), Thomas A., Fannie

E. (Mrs. O. B. TAYLOR), James B., Helen B. and Affa C.  In 1872 our subject

and family moved onto their present farm of 200 acres, comprising seven

acres of all kinds of fruit trees.  Mr. LONG ha given his children good

educational advantages, and is conservative in politics, voting rather for

the man than the party.  He served in the late war in Company F,

Forty-first Tennessee Infantry, and took an active part in the battles of

Fort Donelson, Franklin, Nashville and several minor engagements.  He was

captured at the fall of Fort Donelson, and imprisoned seven months at

LaFayette and Indianapolis. Ind.  He was the wagonmaster in the

quartermaster's department two years.  He returned home in the fall of

1864.  He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.



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