Enoch C. Long, 25 Jan 1854 - 18 Jul 1930

LONG GRAY LAWHEAD JONES LEWIS WHITEHILL

Posted By: Stephen D. Williams (email)
Date: 2/15/2010 at 15:51:51

Williamsburg Journal-Tribune, Williamsburg, Troy Township, Iowa County, Iowa; Thursday, July 24, 1930, Page 1

DR. ENOCH LONG
DIES IN ARIZONA

Passed Away at His Home in
Prescott on July 18th, in His
Seventy-Sixth Year.

FUNERAL AT PRESCOTT

Practiced Medicine in William-
burg for 45 Years, And was
Highly Respected.

(Editor's Note: The following account of the death of Dr. E. C. Long, is taken from the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier of July 18th.)

"Death, following an illness of just three weeks, at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon claimed the life of Dr. Enoch Claud Long in his seventy-sixth year at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Paul R. Gray, 330 North Mount Vernon street.
"Funeral services are to be conducted from the Lester Ruffner chapel, 303 South Cortez street, at 4:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon and burial will follow in Mountain View cemetery, under the auspices of the Masonic order, of which he had been a member for half a century.
"Dr. Long was a native of Columbus, Ohio, where he was born on January 25, 1854. His training for his M. D. degree was obtained in the medical school of the University of Iowa and also the School of Medicine and Surgery at Louisville, Ky.
"In the little town of Williamsburg he practiced his profession for a period of 45 years and acquired a wide reputation as a specialist in child diseases. Being both a physician and surgeon, cases were brought to him from an extended area. During the World war Dr. Long was a member of the Volunteer Medical Service corps.
"In 1919 be came to Prescott on account of the poor health of his wife, who died on March 7, 1929. Ever since that date be gradually declined in health and the end came as the result of a general breakdown. he did not practice medicine in Arizona.
Besides Mrs. Gray, he is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. Bert Lawhead of Prescott, and Mrs. Elmer L. Jones of Los Angeles, who has been here for the last two weeks; by a brother, W. R. Long of Williamsburg; two sisters, Mrs. W. W. Lewis of Long Beach, and Mrs. Sarah Whitehill of Marengo, Iowa; and three grandchildren, Paul Burton, Edward Claud, and Jessie Ann Lawhead of Prescott."
The news of the death of Dr. Long was received in Williamsburg Friday evening by W. R. Long only surviving brother, and a feeling of deep regret touched the old community in which the deceased grew to manhood, and to which he later returned as a medical doctor and practiced his profession here for five and forty years. And what a lovable character he was! He came to Williamsburg with his parents when he was but 14 years old, and here, among the pioneer settlers, he grew to man's estate and acquired that splendid character for which he was so highly esteemed through all the long years in which he practiced [h]is noble calling amidst the scenes of his boyhood. To rich and poor alike his valued services were always within reach, and bestowed with a degree of fidelity never surpassed; to hundreds of homes and families he was the faithful physician, and when he moved to Arizona eleven years ago he carried with him every expression of that love and esteem so deeply and so firmly intermingled with the years that represented his life's work.
He was a gentleman of the old school, his kindly and beneficent disposition brought cheer to many a sorrowing heart, and meet and proper it is that this little tribute should be placed on his grave as a token from one who knew him well and loved him for the innate goodness of his soul.