VALENTINE LONG

LONG, YAKELEY

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/23/2009 at 12:47:36

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

VALENTINE LONG, deceased; born September, 801, in Denison Co., N.C.; died June 7, 1875. Married Phrana Yakeley in 1824; she was born Sept 27, 1804 in Denison Co., N.C.; in 1834, came to Indiana; in 1848, moved to Appanoose Co.; she owns 170 acres of land; had eleven children, nine living -- Andrew, Joseph, Lemuel, William A., Samuel Y., Elizabeth, George W., Thomas J., and John S.; Mary A. and Matilda J. died, aged respectively twenty-five and twenty-eight years; Andrew served about one year in the late war, and was discharged on account of sickness. Members of the Christian Church.