1880

Pierce Township
# 8/8

202	William C Long	Miller	34	M	MO	KY	TN	William Calvin went by "Bill"
	Mary	Wife	33	F	MO	?	?	Mary Rickman married William C Long 21 Oct 1875. Rickman family at 4/4
20201	Joseph B	Son	1	M	MO	MO	MO	Married Laura Belle Scott
20202	Elizabeth	Daughter	3/12	F	MO	MO	MO	Married Wes Hemphill on 6 Dec 1899.

Will Probated

LONG, W. C.
Will written 19 Sept. 1890 - prob. 27 Dec. 1890.
Wit. Isaac H. Long (#204) and Joseph Long(#2).
Exec. My friend Reuben W. Sell
Heirs: Wife Mary H. Long.
My children, Joseph B. Long (#20201), Margarette Elizabeth Long(#20201), Luvina Laurette Long(#20203)and J. Frank Long(#20204).
page 208

Pierce Township
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203	James	Farmer	32	M	MO	TN	TN	James Abner went by the nickname "Ab". From: History of Stone Co, MO, Historical Society; Abb built the feed and flour mill and had a general store on Crane Creek and named the place "Quail Spur". James A Long was born in 1848 and died in 1920 and is buried in Longs Cemetery Stone County Missouri
	Elizabeth	Wife	27	F	MO	MO	MO	Elizabeth Rhodes married James Long 12 Sept 1872 - Notice Rhodes family next door
20301	William I	Son	6	M	MO	MO	MO	Married Eva M ? Born 9 February, 1874 and died January 8, 1919, he is buried in Long Cemetery Stone County, Missouri
20302	Mary	Daughter	4	F	MO	MO	MO
20303	Laura	Daughter	2	F	MO	MO	MO	Laura L marries A E Morrison on 24 Dec 1894
20304	Sarah	Daughter	4/12	F	MO	MO	MO	Married Auber Hodge and went by the nickname "Gertie"

Pierce Township
# 221

204	Isaac	Farmer	M	30	AR	KY	TN	Isaac Henry known as "Ike". Isaac Henry, born 19 Jan 1850, died 26 Oct 1820, and is buried in the Crane Community Cemetery Stone County Missouri
	Rosanna	Wife	F	29	AR	AR	AR	Rosannah Rickman married Isaac H Long on Feb 16, 1871. "Rosa" was born 11 March 1851 and died 13 July 1937 and is buried in Crane Community Cemetery Stone County Missouri
20401	Joseph	Son	M	9	MO	AR	AR	Joseph E was born 29 Nov 1871 and died 26 Nov 1955 and is buried in Longs Cemetery Stone County Missouri.
20402	William D	Son	M	6	MO	AR	AR	William D was born 7 Dec 1873 and died 12 Sept 1880 and is buried in Long Cemetery Stone County Missouri.
20403	Sulia	Daughter	F	3	MO	AR	AR	Married P A Hudson 5 Nov 1896.
	Henry Smith	Laborer	M	21	AR	AR	AR
	Manda Jones	Boarder	F	17	MO	VA	TN

Other members of the Joseph Long family living nearby
#202 Vianna has married John Coffer and lives at 16/6. She was born 29 July 1844 and dies 11 April 1920 and is buried in Crane Community Cemetery in Stone County Missouri
#205 Mary Catherine "Aunt Pop" married George Washington Short and lives at 173/189. Born 26 May 1852 she dies 25 Feb 1920 and is buried in the Galena Cemetery in Stone County Missouri
#206 Sarah Elizabeth has married John William Short and lives at 68/72 She is known as Aunt Sallie to the family. She was born 22 Dec 1854 and dies 16 July 1839 and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery Stone County, Missouri
#208 Lucinda Caroline has married Bynum Rickman and they do not appear in Stone County in 1880. She is called "Cindy". Born in 1861 she dies in 1933 and is buried in Crane Community Cemetery Stone County Missouri."

Pierce Township
# 186

301	William	Farmer	M	53	IL	TN	TN	It is interesting to note that while this is definetly #3, he has only aged 11 years in the last 20 years of census' and in fact shows a year younger than he did in 1870. According to his stone in the Longs Cemetery in Stone County Missouri, he was born 27 Aug 1833 and would die  26 Feb 1898.
	Caroline	Wife	F	30	MO	TN	TN	She only aged 3 years in the last 10. In reality she should show 40, having been born 28 Feb 1840 and she is buried in Longs Cemetery in Stone County, Missouri after passing away 22 Jun 1881, shortly after this census. William will remarry an Elizabeth Rhodes.
30101	Joseph	Son	M	21	AR	IL	MO	Married Sarah "Addie" Sexton. Joseph J Long born 13 March 1860, died 9 Dec 1911 and is buried in Longs Cemetery Stone County, Missouri
30102	William	Son	M	19	AR	IL	MO	Married Elizabeth Betty Howard March 16, 1882
30103	Mary	Daughter	F	13	AR	IL	MO	Married Sam Spears. Mary Jane was born 12 Nov 1867 and died 15 Jun 1947 and is buried with her husband in Crane Community Cemetery Stone County Missouri
30104	Johnnie	Son	M	9	AR	IL	MO	Married Mary E Blassitt (believed to be cross eyed)
30105	Cornelius	Son	M	5	AR	IL	MO	Married Frona Spear. Cornelius G, born 28 May 1875 was buried in Longs Cemetery Stone County, Missouri after he died 1 Oct 1901.

Stone County Wills

LONG, WILLIAM (#301) 
Will written 20 Feb. 1895 - prob. 15 Mar. 1898.
Wit. John T. Moore, wesley B. Wasson and John J. Williams.
Exec. Otis F. Douglas.
Heirs: Wife Elizabeth M. Long (has remarried to an Elizabeth Rhodes. She is buried in Longs Cemtery Stone County MO) 
Sons Cornelius G. Long (#30105),
Isaac J. Long(#3010?) Married Purney Simpson 
and George W. Long.(#3010?) Married Lula Williams 
Dau. Lucy E. Long(#3010?) Married Abe Steele 
Son Richard Harry Long(#3010?)
Son Joseph J. Long(#30101)
Son William M. Long(#30102)
Dau. Mary Jane Spears(#30103)
Son John F. Long(#30105)
page 231

Also living in Pierce Township in 1880 Stone County, MO

At 70/74 lives the William Reed family with their daughter, 16 yoa Mary E. Mary Evelyn will marry #10102 when he retuns to Stone County. After his grandmother dies in Illinois, he is next found in a census in 1870 Phelps County, Missouri with a Marquis Hull family. Interestingly, Mary's father and 2 uncles served in the 24th AR Cavalry with the Long brothers in the Civil War, although in a different company.

The family legend of William Bud "Bun" Long

This story was told to Raymond Long, by his father William Calvin, (and recorded by EdaMay (Jones) Adamson) regarding his uncle Bun or Bud Long, who is William.
Bud Long was a brother to Joseph Calvin, they both joined the Union Army. After the war was over, Bud was discharged and returned home, which was around Waynesville, Pulaski Co, MO, which is about 70 miles north east of Springfield.
Bud was not to popular with some of the citizens who favored the South, as a lot of them had fought with the Confederate Army and others had joined the "Bushwhackers", a renegade outfit that killed, plundered and raped their victims. Most of these renegades were connected somehow to Quantril's Raiders.
It seems there was to be a barn dance and pie social at their country school one Saturday night, and Bud planned to attend. His friends and relatives tried to talk him out of going, as they knew there would be several renegades and former Confederate Soldiers attending. You see Bud was a very quick tempered individual and everyone knew trouble was brewing. Bud was not to be discouraged as he said "it was a free country now", and he wasn't going to let a few Bushwhackers
keep him away from the pie social dance". He put on his best clothes, stuck his pistol in the waist band and proceeded to attend.
The social went well to begin with, then the dance started, and the moonshine whiskey began to flow. Bud went outside for some fresh air and a smoke, when several of the Bushwhackers, who were well fortified with false courage, started to bait him with some unkind remarks as to his person, his breeding etc. As you might expect, a small war erupted and Bud whipped out his pistol and when the smoke cleared he had killed two, and badly wounded a third.
Bud was laying low for the next 40 or so hours. He stole two horses, which he almost road to death, and with the walking, he had put about 70 miles between him and the crime site. He was walking along a narrow country side road, when he heard horses, suspecting they were his pursers, he started running.
Just as he entered a small valley and was quite a distance to timber, where he could hide, he saw a small cabin and barn and headed toward it. He noticed a young woman who was hoeing in a potato patch, watching him. On a sudden impulse he ran to her and told her he was being chased by men on horses and they intended killing him. He told her he was going to hide under her full hoop skirt, since there was plenty of room. He instructed her about what to say, and told her he would kill her, if she didn't. When the men came by, she told them she had seen a man on the road, walking rapidly, about an hour before. After the men were out of sight, she told Bud they were gone, he emerged and apologized profusely for the insult, and went on his way.
After several weeks of hiding, and working a few weeks for a farmer cutting and splitting rails for a fence, he went to a small village, and must have decided the pursuers had given up their search. He then returned to the valley where he had hidden under the young ladies skirt. He proceeded to court her and in a few months they were married. They started housekeeping in a small log cabin situated about quarter mile back from the road.
One morning after they had lived there for a couple of months, his wife looked out the door and saw several horsemen turn into their lane. She told him and as he suspected who they were, he said "tell them I am at the neighbors". She told the horsemen, as Bud had instructed her, and they left. Meanwhile, he had run to the creek and hid in a cave in the bank, with his pistol ready. He hid for several days and his wife would pretend to fish, and bring him food. The gang watched the cabin and became suspicious of her visit to the same place at the creek each day. They crept up to the cave one night and shot Bud while he slept.
Bud went through a hard war, yet met his death over a brawl at a pie social. We don't even know his wife's name.

Other possible clues
A William Long was born in 1805 in Warren County, KY to an Abner Long and unk wife. No other siblings are known at this time. William married Elizabeth Creig and had the following children - Nancy, Jane, Abner, Richard, Rachel, Elizabeth, William. While William died in Kentucky, of the children, it is known that Abner and Nancy would end up in Pulaski and Miller Counties in Missouri. Could this William be a brother to the 3 brothers?

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