JOHN W. LONG

LONG, GAMMON

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 2/5/2002 at 17:35:26

Decatur county Journal
September 24, l9l4

JOHN WILLIAM LONG was born near Blakesburg,
Ia., December l8, l85l, died
at Clarinda, Ia., September 6, l9l4, aged 62
years, 8 months and l8
days, his death being caused by typhoid
fever.

The deceased was the eldest son of AARON B.
and MARY C. LONG. At the
age of l0 years he removed with his parents
and brothers to the home
farm in Center Township, near Leon, where
they lived until the fall of
l868, when the family located in Leon, his
father building the brick
building now occupied by the Exchange
National Bank. JOHN entered the
Leon Public Schools and graduated with the
second class finishing the
high school. He continued actively in the
store as clerk and assistant
buyer until the fall of l878, when he settled
on the farm his father
gave him and followed the pursuit of
agriculture until his death.

He was united in marriage with MISS ELLEN
GAMMON on November 7, l878,
who with four sons, LORNE, JAMIE, ROY and
RENAN survive him, together
with his five brothers, H.L., D.F., O.S.,
A.C. and G.A. LONG.

He united with the Christian Church at Leon
in the year l876 and
continued for a number of years a faithful
member, but became in a
measure an agnostic, but had spoken to the
writer many times of the
Creator of All, and hoped some time to be
with "Him in whom we move and
have our being." May God be merciful to him
and blot our errors.

Funeral services were held at the home on
Wednesday, September 9,
conducted by F.A. Garber, interment being in
the family lot in the Leon
Cemetery.

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by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert
February 4, 2002