LONG'S CEMETERY SOUTH CHERRY COUNTY

by Gladys Long H.C.H. Society

Entry T89 from the History of Hooker County Nebraska
with permission of the Hooker County Historical Society

In 1895 Calvin Floyd Long and Floyd
Wesley Pool and families came from Inde-
pendence, Virginia to Mullen, Nebraska by
train. Both families homesteaded north and
west of Seneca, Nebraska where the Long
Ranch is today. They built a sod house and
put down a well. Booker and Glen Long sons
of Calvin F. Long, ran the ranch until 1954,
when Glen Long died and Booker Long
retired. Booker's son, Howard Long ran the
ranch until 1978 when it was sold.

On February 28, 1867, Calvin Floyd Long
married Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, daughter
of Theodore Kennedy a copper miner in
Nulin, North Carolina. Calvin and Mary
Long had fourteen children all born in
Grayson County, Independence, Virginia in
the same house. Calvin F. Long died June 12,
1902 in a horse accident.

Addie Long, daughter of Calvin and Mary
Long married Enoch Anders. His parents,
Nancy Osborn Anders and Stephen Floyd
Anders are buried here. Addie and Enoch's
son James Lennie Anders married Rachel
Wetherston.

James Lee Long, John Glen Long, and Earl
Dare Long, all sons of Calvin and Mary Long,
are buried in this cemetery.

Earl Dare Long married Mattie Elliott,
daughter of Abraham Elliott. Their son,
Clifford Long is buried here also. Mattie
Long died in 1978 and was buried in Wash-
ington.

Candis May Long, daughter of Calvin and
Mary Long was married to Floyd W. Pool in
Virginia and homesteaded the land with
Calvin and Mary Long. Floyd and Candis
Pool had four infant sons buried in the
Cemetery. It is believed the infant twins,
Hugh and Dennis were the first to be buried
here in 1899. The other infant sons were
buried in 1904 and 1906.

James Dean Jones died in 1918 of the flu.
Robert Lee Jones, a brother to James, also
died in 1918. They were cousins of the Long
family, sons of Mary Alamedia Long Jones of
Independence, Virginia, a sister of Calvin
Long.

Charles U. Long, son of Calvin and Mary
Long, and his wife Irene Boyer Long are both
buried here along with a grandaughter Baby
Mary Long, an infant daughter of Reuben
Long.

William Frank Osborn, husband of Minnie
Alamedia Long, daughter of Calvin and Mary
Long, had been buried at the Long Cemetery
but since has been moved to Cedarview
Cemetery in Mullen. Minnie Long Osborn
Howarth is also buried in Cedarview Ceme-
tery.

Floyd Pool was the last to be buried at
Long Cemetery on October 24, 1954.