Stanley Richard Long

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Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/20/2010 at 22:21:08

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Stanley Richard Long
Bu Stanley Richard Long

The Long family of Fort Dodge, Iowa, has had two residents of Sioux City separated by ninety years. Eli Daniel Long, a teamster driving freight to the Black Hills, lived on Second Street and on Pierce Street in 1891-1893. Then, in 1982, the grandson of Eli’s half-brother came to Sioux City when the Rev Stanley Long, Jr, became pastor of the Rustin Avenue United Methodist Church.

This family of Longs originated in America when Joseph Longe came from Dorset County, England, to Dorchester, Massachusetts, about 1630. Joseph married Mary Lane, daughter of William Lane of Dorchester. Their son, Thomas (2) Long moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he married Sarah Wilcox, daughter of John and Sarah (Wadsworth) Wilcox, on October 3, 1666. On January 22, 1667-1668, their son, Joseph (3) Long was born at Hartford. He married Martha Smith, daughter of Jonathan and Martha (Bushnell) Smith, moving his family to Coventry, Connecticut about 1707. There the family lived as yeoman farmers for over one hundred years.

Joseph (4) Long married Sarah Evarts in 1716, their son, (5) Lemuel was born July 12, 1727, and married Martha Brewster in 1750. Three sons of Lemuel and Martha, Joseph, Rufus and Levi Long, served in the Revolutionary War. Joseph and Rufus were killed in 1775. Lemuel’s youngest child, Reuben, (6) was born, March 29, 1767. He married Esther Bingham, daughter of Eleazer and Esther (Loomis) Bingham. In the fall of 1816, he moved his family of nine children to Sardinia, Erie County, New York.

Lemuel (7) Long was three years old when the westward move was made. He was born in Coventry, October 29, 1813, lived in Sardinia until the age of twenty-nine when he continued the westward migration by moving to Kalamazoo, Michigan. He began farming in Ross Township, Kalamazoo County, in 1835, and stayed there for nearly twenty years. On December 7, 1840, he married Jane Shoemaker, whose parents are unknown to this writer. Jane was born July 28, 1823, probably in Pennsylvania. Six of the eight children of Lemuel and Jane were born in Kalamazoo County. Reuben, Charles, Nancy, Emily (who died young), Martha, Mary M, and Eli Daniel. In 1854 they sold the Michigan farm and moved to Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois. Their seventh child, Ada Agnes, was born there August 1, 1855.

In the spring of 1856, Lemuel moved his family to a farm near Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa, where he remained until his death, April 7, 1903. Jane had died September 7, 1857, in the birth of their eighth child, Joseph.

As his second wife, Lemuel married on December 11, 1857. Adaline Florilla Hunt, daughter of Eleazer and Florilla Hunt. She was born in Monroe County, New York, 30 April 1828, and died in Fort Dodge, 26 May 1901. The Hunt family had been long-time neighbors and friends of Lemuel Long from the Kalamazoo days, moving with him to Illinois and later to Iowa.

Five children were born to Lemuel and Adaline Long: Esther, Erastus, Ellen M, Pattie May, and George Lemuel (8) who was born June 26, 1872. George married Bertha Smith at the home farm on December 27, 1899. Bertha was the daughter of Alexander M Smith and Mary Jane Bostwick, also a descendant of the Bushnell family of Connecticut – See Joseph. Of the seven children born to George and Bertha, two died young. Surviving to adulthood were: Irving L, married Gertrude Sindlinger; Florence M, married John Grady; Stanley Ross (9); Mary Adaline, married Fred Maddox; and Alice M, married Bert Hoppen.

Stanley Ross Long, born September 2, 1909, married Bernice Lucille Hallett in Des Moines, Iowa, on June 9, 1931. Bernice was born in Manson, Iowa, May 24, 1910, the oldest of three children of Clifford and Minnie (Insko) Hallett. Her grandfather, William W Hallett, was a teacher and school administrator in Illinois. He invented and patented two early teaching machines in the 1800’s.

To Stanley Ross and Bernice Long were born seven children: Stanley Richard (10), William B, Jerry L, Carol A, David R, Jean M, and Doris E. Stanley Richard was born at Fort Dodge, Iowa, on January 27, 1932. He was married to Glenda S Legore at Ames, Iowa, on May 30, 1959. Glenda, a daughter of Burnett and Marie (Reeder) Legore, was born at Jefferson, Iowa, on September 7, 1938. Both Glenda and Stanley are graduates of Iowa State University. They have two daughters, Kaarin S, born February 1, 1968 in Paterson, New Jersey; and Soren M, born February 2, 1971, in New York, New York.

Stanley or Stan, Jr, was appointed pastor of Rustin Avenue United Methodist Church in Sioux City on June 15, 1982, after serving seven years as pastor to two churches in Des Moines. On July 1, he was also appointed pastor of the Community Untied Methodist Church in Salix, Iowa.

Glenda, who has her Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Drake University in Des Moines, is employed as Management Analyst for the Sioux City District of Iowa’s Department of Human Services.