Joseph B. Long, second son of Henry and Rachel Long, was born about 1818, according to the memories of Jess Long, son of Joseph's son William F. Long. Jess also said, very emphatically, that his grandfather's full name was Joseph Blackburn Long. A record from the Baker family of Joseph B. Long's Family ages gives Joseph's birthdate as 30 May 1817. His older brother, Sam Long, was born May 16, 1817. Either Sam and Joseph were twins and Joseph was two weeks late being born, or Joseph was born in 1818. Joseph reportedly died in 1895 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Bagdad Cemetery in Williamson County, Texas. Joseph was married to Emaline McCoy. They are probably #11 in the 1840 census of Jackson County, Alabama, though she is not named. They are next to her father, Daniel McCoy in that census. According to the 1880 census, both of them were born in Tennessee.
Emaline's family is described in a letter which was shared by Dorothy Williams of Stevenson, Alabama. It reads:
Grandfather Daniel McCoy. a native of Scotland came to the United States and married Miss Eliza Kitchens, a daughter of Grand-Dad Sam[uel?] Kitchens, and wife whose maiden name was Franklin a sister to uncle Joe Franklin. I think and they were I am told direct descendants of the famous Benjamin Franklin.According to Dorothy Williams, the parents of Emaline McCoy Long were Eliza and Daniel McCoy. Daniel was born about 1787 in North Carolina. Joseph and Emaline Long recorded a will in Williamson County, Texas, in June of 1895. Their children named in the will were: "our sons William F. Long and James H. Long,...our daughter[s] Eliza Jeffrey,...Elizabeth Baker,...Margaret Morris, [deceased], ...Minerva Baker,...[and] Annie Faubion." [See Deed Book 74 p 287]
Daniel and Eliza McCoy raised a large family. Safronia married Jim Webb. Emaline married Joe Long. Theadore married Evaline Keyes, part Cherokee Indian in Alabama, Jackson Co. Billie McCoy married and went to Florida and died during the Cival war. My Father went there on a furlo issued by war department & brought his widow back to her people. 2 of boys at least Mark and Cass I think went to Calif '49 gold rush. One died with Panama fever. Mark left to go join army of civil war & never was hear of any more he had his gold he had mined in Calif. with him when he left Popular Bluff Mo. Frank McCoy married Eva Webb a sister to Jim Webb. They had a large family of boys & 2 girls Henrietta & Eliza. 9 boys Billie Dave Layfaett Marion Dan Jim Theodore George Moses John ??
Our uncle John McCoy married Martha Long in Texas. David F McCoy married Mary An McNorton. Grand Father McCoy's wife died & he left uncle Frank with Aunt Fran Webb. Dave with our uncle Theodore McCoy. Joe & Emmaline Long took uncle John to Tex.
Grandfather Daniel McCoy went back to Scotland & died. The McCoys are scattered all over the world by this time ?? ?? us, at least, I cant get the history of your mothers people try some of the older [cousins?] , this is all from memory so I may not be correct on some of it but I am sure part of it is correct. I wish I had a correct history of all our people its carelessness that it hasn't been kept up but people dont seem to have much interest of their own folks - this is to B?? C B McCoy
"my Grandmother was...a full blooded Scotsman, and she came from Scotland when she was thirteen years old, to Tennessee. And...my Grandfather...on my Father's side was raised in Alabama. ...When they came to Texas, they came [to] Cherokee County up there and lived there two or three years and moved to Caldwell County. And they lived there all during the War... And they moved up to Spicewood Springs here, and lived a couple of years and then they moved up to Cedar Park, there, and my Grandfather bought a place from an old man the name of Lloyd. He kept it about a year, and he couldn't get a good title to it so he let him have the place back and he went just a mile, they's just a mile from Cedar Park up there,...he went up there and bought a six hundred acres of land, improved it, put a big barn on it, and a house and ever' thing, and corrals and things, and it was right on the Austin to Burnett road."No other record yet found indicates that Emaline McCoy Long was born in Scotland. Jess Long's memory may have been skipping a generation, meaning his great grandmother McCoy came from Scotland.
#812 Farmer ($640) Joseph B. LONG 33 m Tenn Emaline 31 f " Eliza 8 f Ala Elizabeth C. 6 f Tenn Margaret 2 f Tex Jno C. McCOY 14 m AlaCherokee County, like Caldwell County, is on the Old San Antonio Road which connected San Antonio to the early Spanish Missions in East Texas. That road became a convenient immigration route for settlers coming from the southern United States. The Autobiography of Richard Cole tells of the migration of a part of the Jeffrey, Cole and Halsell families from Mississippi to Texas. It is fairly typical of immigrants of that time. Cole wrote:
In the winter of 1841-42, I moved to Mississippi, Pontotoc County. My two brothers had gone there some two years, perhaps, before I went. I stayed the first season with my brother Samuel. I had lived with him once before from the time of my mother's death till I married.The Joseph B. Long family was in living in Cherokee County in 1850. They may have known Mr. Shaw. They may have even gotten acquainted with the Cole and Halsell families before they all moved on to Caldwell County. Joseph paid taxes in Caldwell County in 1855, and perhaps in 1854 as well.
...In the fall, I went back to Alabama to assist my brother-in-law, Matthew Jeffrey, in moving his father and mother with their effects to Mississippi. Himself, his father and mother composed the family (that is, the whites). His father had been confined to his bed for many years and was never off of it unless he was lifted off, being crippled by rheumatism so that he had no use of his legs; his knees being drawn out of joint and his fingers also were so crooked and drawn that he could not use them to hold anything in his hands. Much of the time he was fed by other hands.
His son, Matthew Jeffrey, was unmarried when his father was taken down and he stayed with him, and waited on and took care of him. He worked and managed and kept their little property together and took care of his father and mother as a dutiful and loving son as long as they lived, which I reckon was at least twenty five years after his father was taken down.
When I assisted the Jeffreys to where I had stopped in Pontotoc County, I then made myself ready as quick as I could and we all moved together up in Tippah County. ...
I will here state, that we left Tippah County, Mississippi for Texas on or near the fifteenth of October, 1850. When I left for Texas I had two son-in-laws who started with me. Allen Halsell, who married my oldest daughter, Melissa and Edward Halsell, who married my second named Caroline. "Ned" (as we called him) was complaining, when we started, of not feeling as well as usual, but was up and about attending to business. He, nor any of us, thought that his slight complaint would result in anything serious, but he gradually grew worse.
In Drew County, Arkansas, he grew worse and became unable to travel on foot, for all of us except the women and small children walked most of the time. We made a place for him in the wagon as comfortable as we could and hauled him on. We stopped a mile or two from White River after crossing it, near a doctor, who treated his case a week or ten days, after which we moved on until we got to Nacodoches County, Texas.
We stopped again with him at a little town called Douglas where there was said to be a good doctor. This doctor waited on him for a week or ten days and thought he was improving. The doctor said he thought it would not hurt him to move on if the weather continued favorable. It was then quite warm but cloudy and the wind from the south. A short time after we started again, the wind came from the North and it began to turn cold and a fine mist of rain began to fall also, and the cold kept increasing till the rain froze as it fell.
In the evening, we were directed to a vacant house not far from the road; we went in, kindled up a fire and got the sick man in. We laid him on a bed before the fireplace and made him as comfortable as we could, but the firewood was very scarce and ill convenient. The next morning it was extremely cold and because of the scarcity of firewood we could not all keep warm around the fireplace, so part of the company remained with the sick man and the others moved on two or three miles and stopped near the residence of an old gentleman named Shaw. Here we had access to plenty of firewood. Nearby we stretched out tents with the open end to the South. With our teams, we drew up plenty of firewood and kept up a large fire in front of our tent and also kept from suffering much from cold.
The next day it was very cold, but the balance of the company came on with the sick man. Mr. Shaw was kind and received him and his wife into his house. The old gentleman himself was feeble. He made it the business of a certain negro man to keep plenty of firewood and to keep a good fire burning in the fireplace constantly, day and night, so that the sick man was made as comfortable as if he had been home in his own dwelling. We got a doctor to him as soon as we could.
The second night after we got him into Mr. Shaw's house we thought he was improving; he seemed perter and at supper time when the food was passed to him he raised up on his elbow as he raised up in bed and ate of it with his wife. Mr. Shaw told us if he got worse or if we were needed in any way, his negro man that was in the house all the time, could let us know in a minute or two as our tent was near by.
Sometime before day the Negro came and told us "Ned" was much worse and they thought he was dying. Myself and wife and Allen Halsell and his wife went to the sick man as soon as we could. He never spoke after we got to him. His brother called his name "Ned" several times. If he was conscious, he was not able to answer; he continued to make a kind of mourning noise for some time and then passed away. We buried him as decently as we could in a graveyard two or three miles distant from where he died.
The "Norther" which came upon us, the coldest it seems to me I have ever felt since, came upon us as well as I can recollect about the thirteenth of December, 1850.
After we had buried Edward Halsell and before we got ready to start on the road again, my Negro woman, Dinah, was taken very sick. The kind hearted Mr. Shaw gave her a room and a comfortable place in his kitchen where she was waited on by her mistress and assisted by Mr. Shaws servants. After three weeks of sickness the doctor thought she might be moved without danger. The kind man to us, Mr. Shaw, would receive no remuneration from us for the comforts and assistance he had given us.
Mr. Shaw seemed to take interest in our welfare. He advised me to stop there and go no further West. He said he had lived out West awhile himself, but it was so sickly out there that he moved back East for health. He said you can do well here; you have a fine looking healthy family; it is a pity [for] you take them to that sickly region and ruin their health. I appreciated his kindness and good wishes or us and I hope I was thankful and grateful to him for the same and also to the Lord who had caused favor and kindness to be shown me among strangers.
Before the summer had past I thought if there is any sicklier place than Cherokee County, I never wish to see it. The delays on the road had belated us so and moreover we had heard such discouraging reports about the scarcity of provisions out West, and that the roads so late in the season would be almost impassable, we finally concluded under the circumstances that perhaps it would be best to wait till another season to finish our move. So we rented a place there with two dwellings; Halsell occupied one and I the other.
225/211 age born in Joseph B. Long 43 Tn Emaline 41 Tn Eliza 18 Tn Elizabeth C. 15 Ala Margaret 12 Tn/Tx Matilda S. 10 Tx Millie M. 5 Tx Jas. H. 7 Tx Wm. F. 1 TxNext to the Joseph B. Long family is his sister Susan and her husband and daughters. Susan was the youngest sister of Joseph B. Long.
226/212 David B. Jones 29 Tn Susan 23/25 Tn Rachel 4 Tx Amanda J. 2 Tx Nancy A 11/12 TxOn 22 June 1869, J.B. Long bought 115 1/3 acres on the headwater of Brushy Creek from M. C. Baird for $125. Two and a half years later, Long sold it to E. Thelan for $200 on 13 Nov 1871. That land deal may have been simply a good investment on which to make a profit. Joseph bought part of the Dover headright in 1867 and apparently lived there a long time.
Joseph and Emaline are reported by two different sources to have had a daughter, Sarah Jane, who was born about 1840. The family notes called Joseph B. Long's Family ages gives Sarah Jane's birth date as 22 January 1840 and her death as 5 Nov 1841.
Eliza was born 18 Jan 1842, in Alabama. She married Joseph Baker Jeffrey in Caldwell County 27 June 1857. He was a son of James Jeffrey and Mary Ann Hellums.
Eliza and Joseph lived much of their lives in Caldwell County. They are buried in Llano County, Salem Cemetery. Their graves are marked with granite rocks on which initials were scratched. Joseph and Eliza had ten children, of whom six were still living in 1900. They were:
| James Baker JEFFREY | born 1858 d about 1929 |
| Isaac Perkins JEFFREY | born 22 Oct 1862 d 2 May 1931 |
| Sarah Elizabeth JEFFREY | born 9 May 1865 d 4 April 1913 |
| Samuel Lafayette JEFFREY | born 1870 d 13 Aug 1883 |
| Joseph Theodore JEFFREY | born 30 Jan 1872 d 4 July 1940 m Malinda Churchill |
| Emma JEFFREY | born 9 May 1874 d 15 May 1875 |
| Margaret JEFFREY | born 30 Nov 1875 died 14 Feb 1920 m Bunion Kilgore |
| Sophronia JEFFREY | born 22 Oct 1878 d 12 Dec 1974 m John Franklin Jeffrey |
| baby JEFFREY | |
| George Foster JEFFREY | born April 1885 |
Elizabeth C. Long was married 23 December 1869 in Williamson County to David S. Baker. That may indicate the approximate date the family moved.
Jess Long's son, Noble Long, reported that his father lived for a time "on Devil's River" with his aunt who married Dave Baker. The Long Family Record shows Joe and Emeline Long's daughter "Lizzie" married David Sheppard Baker.
"Uncle Dave Baker" visited Lavada Long Bergfield's family in Austin in the 1920's. Marjorie Brown remembers him as a special guest with interesting stories about the Devil's River country, where he had lived.
Margaret was born March 8, 1848, according to a Bible said to have belonged to George W. Morris. It states that "before marriage [she] was Margret Long". The date of her death is given as 17 February 1887.
Margaret Long was married 20 June 1867 to George W. Morris, son of Margaret McCoy Tinney Morris and Alexander Morris.
After Margaret's death, George Morris married Lourene Mitchell on 20 August 1889.
Margaret and George had the following children:
| Lewis A MORRIS | b 1869 |
| Anna Isabell MORRIS | b 1871 |
| Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" MORRIS | b 1873 |
| Joseph William MORRIS | b 1875 |
| George Washington MORRIS JR | b 1878 |
| infant MORRIS | b 1880 |
| James Thomas MORRIS | b 1881 |
| Ella Emaline MORRIS | b 1884 |
Millie Minerva Long was born 6 December 1856 . She married Jonathan T. Baker on 25 February 1874 in Williamson County. His family says that Jonathan died of typhoid, but does not know when or where.
45/51 Baker, David w m 30 stockman Tx Mo Mo Elizabeth w f 34 wife keeps house Tx Sinnia E w f 10 dau Tx Tx Tx Joseph w m 8 son Tx " " James R w m 6 son Tx " " George W w m 4 son Tx " " William w m 6/12 son Tx " " 46/52 Baker, Shepherd 71 farmer Tenn SC SC Sinah 50 wife Mo Ala Tenn Joseph 23 son herder Tx Tenn Mo William 19 son " " " Sarah 16 dau " " " Martha 13 dau " " " 47/53 BAKER, Johnathan m 26 stockman Tx Tenn Mo Minerva f 23 " Tenn Tenn Andrew m 5 son " Tx Tx Lina f 4 dau " " "These are the families of Elizabeth "Lizzie" and Millie Minerva Long, married to Baker brothers. They were sons of Shepherd and Sina Baker.
Some part of the family knew Minerva Long and her husband Jonathan Baker, reporting to Enid Long Barker that they lived in New Mexico. The 1900 census may help locate them there.
Jonathan and Minerva's children were:
In 1880 the Williamson County census for Enumeration District 157 taken June 1 & 2, page 3 shows:
24/25 Long, Joseph B w m 63 Tn Va Ky
Emaline w f 61 wife Tn Nc Va
Wm F w m 21 son Tx Tn Tn
Anna w f 14 daug " " "
25/26 Long, James H w m 27 Tx Tn Tn
Georgia w f 22 wife Tx
W. Walter w m 3 son " Tx Tx
J. Edgar w m 1 son " " "
James Hall Long was married in Caldwell County to George Ann Halsell on 11 July 1875. She was the daughter of George Allen Halsell and Sarah Melissa Cole. George Halsell was one of Richard Cole's sons-in-law. The Autobiography of Richard Cole tells of the death of George's brother Edward "Ned" Halsell. George Ann and James H. Long lived out their lives in Caldwell County. They had seven children:
| William Walter LONG | (b 1876) |
| James Edgar LONG | (b 1879) |
| Mary Alma LONG | (b 1881) |
| Henry LONG | (b 1886) |
| George Lester LONG | (b 1890) |
| Susie Emaline LONG | (b 1893) |
| Georgia Lavada LONG | (b 1899) |
Joseph and Emeline Long's youngest son, William Franklin Long was married first on 6 October 1881 in Williamson County, to Willis Ann Oliver, daughter of Jesse Blaze Jefferson Oliver and Parizade Pugh. William and Willis Ann had six children, including two sets of twins. William Franklin Long's son Jess Long said, "I had a twin and I had twin sisters." Jesse Long married Mae Walden. George died in 1909 of typhoid fever. Emma married William Allman, Julia married a Heaton and Edna married an Arnold. Willis Ann died 13 December 1892. After her death, William married Lena ??. William F. Long died in 1936, and is buried at Pond Springs Cemetery in Williamson County, Texas.
Anna or Annie Long was the youngest child of Joseph and Emeline Long. She was married on 31 December 1893, to James C. Faubion. He was a son of William and Marinda Black Faubion. He married second in Pike County, Arkansas, Mrs. Rosa Cornish. Annie was reported to have married a Mobley.
In Enid Long's Family History, Anna is said to have "lost the family bible while moving, while crossing a river in a covered wagon." It is possible that the family Bible of that story was retrieved from the water and kept. The glue of the binding may have dissolved, leaving the Family Record pages which were saved. They are separate from any binding now, and are our greatest treasure. This story may account for their condition.
State of Texas
County of Williamson
Know all men by these presents that we Joseph B. Long and Emeline Long of said County and State being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and publish this our last will and testament, hereby revoking all wills by us, or either of us theretofore made.
First: [all debts to be paid, all property to be held by survivor] until after the death of both of us.
Second: After our decease we do give and bequeath to our sons William F. Long and James H. Long, jointly our homestead upon which we now live, the same being 166 acres of land in Williamson County, Texas. Provided that within three years after the death of the survivor, the said William F. Long and James H. Long shall pay to the following named persons the following sums of money to wit:
To our daughter Eliza Jeffrey the sum of $75.00
To our daughter Elizabeth Baker the sum of $75.00
To the heirs of our daughter Margaret Morris, jointly the sum of $75.00
To our daughter Minerva Baker the sum of $75.00
To our daughter Annie Faubion the sum of $75.00
Third: We do hereby constitute and appoint Perry Davis, Jr., sole executor of this our last will and testament. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hand on this the day of July A. D. 1894 in the presence of J. R. Garner and W. P. Davis, Jr. who attest the same as witnesses.
J. B. Long
Emaline Long
Filed June 10, 1895 4 p.m. Recorded June 15 1895
Deed Book 74 Page 287