History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 757.
[Nicholas County] [Carlisle City and Precinct]
JOHN LONG, farmer, P. O. Carlisle, was born in what is now Nicholas
County near Millersburg, in the year 1800, Nov. 28. He has always lived
in the county and been identified with its interests. His parents were
Eliakim and Jemima (Victor) Long, natives of Maryland, near Snow Hill,
where he learned the trade of shoemaking; she was a daughter of John
Victor, who died in Maryland; his wife, Hannah (Brewington) Victor, came
to Nicholas County in 1790 with four sons and three daughters, all of whom
married and settled in the county; Eliakim is a son of Delves Long, who
only had two sons and a daughter, who married John McCauley, and finally
moved to Kentucky; they had two sons, both of whom left children in Ohio.
Wm. Long, an uncle to our subject, was killed by a horse, he had two
daughters, who married and located in the West, and a son who went to sea
and was not heard from. The father of John was married about 1796, and
had eleven children, the oldest born in 1798; there were nine sons and
two daughters; all had children but two sons. William, deceased, settled
in Harrison County; Polly, now the widow of Parish Jones, residing in
Vermillion, Ill.; James, deceased, settled in same county; Nancy,
deceased, wife of John C. Cassidy, left children in Missouri; Levi,
residing in Vermillion County, Ill.; Littleton (see hist.), Eliakim, in
Putman County, Ind.; Samuel, in Kansas. The subject of this sketch
received a very limited education and worked on the farm with his father
until of age. In 1825, he was married to Nancy Young, whom he buried
after eight weeks of married life. On the 6th of Sept. 1827, he was
again married, to Nancy Nesbit, who was born upon the farm where they
now reside, April 16, 1800; she a daughter of Nathan and Sarah (Huston),
who were natives of Pennsylvania, near Carlisle, but settled in Bourbon
County in 1788; some of the family were among the original settlers of
Bourbon; Sarah was a daughter of Joseph, who was a prominent man in
Pennsylvania; Nathan was a son of John. By this marriage Mr. Long had two
children: Sarah J., born Sept. 4, 1837, now the wife of Charles Wise; John
W., May 9, 1841, married Elizabeth F. Victor, Dec. 20, 1866; she born Aug.
23, 1845, an only child who lived to maturity, of George and Sarah (Hedges)
Victor, who were natives of Kentucky. They have one child, George Victor,
a daughter born June 28, 1869. They are devoted to a general agriculture
and stockraising; religiously, they are connected with the Presbyterian
Church.
Long Victor Brewington Jones Cassidy Young Nesbit Huston Wise Hedges
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