Henry L. Long & Sarah J. Sinclair

Children of Henry L. Long and Sarah J. Sinclair

Marriage Events for Henry L. Long\Sarah J. Sinclair:

Henry L. Long

1850 CENSUS
Henry Long is listed as 14 years old in the 1850 census for Erie
Township, Ottawa County, Ohio. His birthplace is listed as Germany. (Page
149, Dwelling No. 216)

1860-1870 CENSUS
Henry Long is listed in the 1860 and 1870 census in Walnut Township,
Bureau County, Illinois. In 1860 he is listed as age 23, a farmer, born
in Saxe Coburg. The value of his personal estate is listed as $40, and
the value of his real estate is unspecified and therefore assumed to be
$0. He is listed, along with Sarah Long (age 23) and Eugene (age 1/12)
at Dwelling #4520. John and Eliza Frease are listed next door at
Dwelling #4519, along with three children and George Frease (age 24).

Saxe-Coburg was one of four duchies created in 1554 in the former region
of Thuringia. The Thuringian states joined the German Empire in 1871.
After WWI, Coburg joined Bavaria, while the others joined the State of
Thuringia in the Weimar Republic. (Encylopedia Americana, "Thuringia")

1870 CENSUS
In the 1870 census Henry Long is listed as age 33, a farmer, born in
Germany. He is listed along with Sarah (age 33, keeping house),
Christian (age 10), Frank (age 8), Della (age 6), and Chas. (age5) at
Dwelling #154. The value of his real estate is listed as $1,800, and his
personal estate as $800. His father and his mother are listed as
"foreign". A Christian Long (age 26, a farmer, birthplace Ohio) is
listed at dwelling #151 along with Jos. Wormwood (age 18, a farm
laborer). Perhaps this Christian is the brother listed as "Christion",
age 3? (5?) in the 1850 CENSUS.

HENRY LONG OBITUARY
Among the many good families Germany has given the United States we
may safely number that of our esteemed fellow citizen, Henry Long. Born
in Hanover, October 15, 1836, he came to New York with his father and
mother and four brothers and a sister in 1845. The summer of 1845 he
lived at Albany, but in October of that year the family removed to
Sandusky, Ohio, and thence to the Peninsula east of Toledo in the same
year.
Henry Long came to Illinois in 1856, and for a number of years lived
southeast of the town; afterward in the town, and for the past seven
years on his farm two miles west of town.
He wedded Miss Sarah Sinclair at Limerick, Illinois, March 12, 1859;
and for more than forty years they have lived a happy life together.
Their four children are Eugene C. Long of Nebraska, James Frederick Long
of Walnut, Illinois, Idella, wife of Mr. Charles Burns of Worcester,
Mass., and Charles H. Long of Nebraska. Three brothers are still living:
Frederick of LaMoille, aged 71, Louis of Missouri, aged 67, and William
of Walnut, aged 58.
Brother Henry Long helped to organize the Walnut Christian Church,
and was one of its elders tried and true. As a neighbor, as a friend, as
a brother, he was kind, helpful, faithful, and generally beloved.
He departed this life at 10:15 Friday evening, August 10, 1900, in
his home, surrounded by all his family. Peacefully as the sun on a clear
day sinks to rest, his spirit without a cloud to dim its beauty, passed
through the shadows of death into the sunlight of God. His faith and hope
voided their longing and their answer in his favorite song:
Shall we gather at the river that flows by the throng of God? Yes,
we'll gather at the river......That flows by the throne of God."
The funeral services were held at the Christian church at eleven
o'clock Sunday morning and a host of his old friends and neighbors
gathered to pay their last sad tribute of respect. The sermon was from
Gal. 9:20 by Rev. Will F. Shaw assisted by Rev. N. T. Hafer, Andrew Ross
and G. L. Kennedy, the services of the other churches being kindly
dismissed. The floral offerings were very fine. The remains were interred
in Walnut cemetery.
(Walnut (Leader?), August 17, 1900)

Sarah J. Sinclair

Grandpa E. C. Long brought Sarah and Aunt Del (Della) Burns to Cashmere
after Henry died. He took her body back to be buried with Henry in the
Walnut cemetary in about 1923. (photos of headstone.)
(Viola Long Sandmark, 12/95)

MRS. SARAH LONG OBITUARY
The remains of Mrs. Sarah Long arrived in Walnut Friday morning, from
Cashmere, Wash., where she passed away, accompanied by her son, Eugene
Long, who resides in that place. The funeral was held at the home of her
son, Fred J. Long.
Mrs. Sarah Long was born in Marion County, Ohio, October 4, 1836, and
departed this life, September 2, 1923, at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Della Burns, with whom she made her home at Cashmere, Wash., since 1908.
When twenty-three years of age she came to Bureau county and it was in
the same year, 1859, she was united in marriage to Henry Long, the
wedding being celebrated at Kasbeer.
For forty-one years this worthy couple lived happily together in the
neighborhood of Walnut and reared their family, when death entered the
home and summoned away the husband and father on August 10, 1900.
The late Mrs. Long remained in the vicinity of Walnut with her children
till 1908, when she moved to Cashmere.
Throughout her long life of eightyeight years, she developed a fine
Christian character to which her many friends bear willing testimony.
Everywhere they speak of her devotion to the church of which she was a
member, and her vigorous advocacy of all that was uplifting in morals and
religion.
The surviving members of her family E. C. Long, Cashmere, Wash.; J.
F. Long, Walnut, Ill.; Mrs. Della Burns, Cashmere, Wash.; and Charles
Long, of Kasbeer, Ill.
One sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Holly, 90 years of age, lives in Port Clinton,
O.
Funeral services were held Friday afternoon, September 7, 1923, at the
home of Mrs. and Mrs. J. F. Long at Walnut, attended by many relatives
and friends, quite a number of whom were from out of town.
The Rev. T. Akey Brewster, D. D., of the Walnut Methodist Episcopal
church was the officiating minister. Burial was in the family lot at the
Walnut cemetery.
( - Bureau Co. Republican, Sep. 20, 1923, Sect. 2, p. 8C.4)

James Frederick Long

Frederick Long Obituary:
"Frederick Long was born in Hanover Germany, October 28, 1830. With his
parents, four brothers and one sister, he came to New York in the spring
of 1844. From June until October of that year he lived at Albany, and so
nearly did they become emigrants to New Brunswick that they had placed
their baggage on a canal boat for the journey when they were persuaded to
try America's life at Albany for a while. In October, 1844, they removed
to Sandusky, Ohio, and that same fall into the peninsula in Ottawa Co.,
east of Toledo. Here the parents died. Thence he removed to Illinois in
1856, and settled southeast of Walnut, Ill.
"He was married to Rachel Sinclair at Erie, Ohio, January 28, 1851. For
more than 52 years they walked life's pathway together, sharing its joys
and bearing its burdens and sorrows. A little more than eight months ago
his companion was taken from him to be with the just made perfect, since
which time he had longed to go and be with her in that summer land where
separation never comes.


He is listed as "Frank", age 8, in the 1870 census in Walnut, Bureau, IL,
but he was later known as Fred. (-- VLW)

Charles Henry Long

The petition for probate of the Henry Long will lists "Charles Henry
Long, son, Walnut, Illinois".

He was never married. (-- VLW)

John C. Madison