LONG: Of Reedy.

John C. Long was born at Holly Meadows, Randolph County, Western Virginia, June 1, 1831, son of James and Barbary A. (Johnson) Long, both born in Randolph County; he, 1781; she, 1800.

John C. Long was twice married. His first wife was Samantha, daughter of Houston and Ingaby (Thompson) Booth, whom he married in Harrison County, where she died only one year later. His second wife was Margaret V., daughter of John and Hannah (Corder) Pickens, whom he married in Barbour County, West Virginia, February 21, 1867; John C. Long came to a large tract of land which he had purchased from Harrison County owners situate on and about the head of Longs Run,
on the line between Curtis and Reedy Districts, extending to the coves of Buffalo of Mill Creek, about the time he married first, 1857. He enlisted on the Confederate side, and served with General Albert G. Jenkins as a member of his staff. After the war was over and he had married Margaret V., they came to the lands above mentioned and began the making of a farm, at which they worked, as all such pioneers had to work, right there for the next twenty-five years; he sold to Melville W. Morrison, his brother-in·law, his farm and to the Bonds and others the farms they made in that locality.

To John C. and Hanna (Pickens) Long five children were born; their names in order of their ages, are: James Lee, several years an attorney-at-law in the City of Charleston, West Virginia, was born 1868; Icy Boothe, 1872; Rose Altha, 1875; William W., 1879, died 1880.

John C. Long was a large, fair-skinned man with blue eyes, and of a counterance suggesting playful humor and good sense.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 588-589