LONG, Thomas - Putnam

Thomas Long, retired farmer, was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, October 12, 1816, son of Thomas Long, deceased, a native of Virginia, who came to Woodford County, Kentucky, when an infant, where he was reared and married Nancy Jackson, and removed to Shelby County. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and participated in some of the hardest fought battles of that war. During that war a pig came to his company and followed it through all the hard marching and retreats, sometimes taking till midnight to catch up with the army. At the close of the war the Captain took the pig, raised many pigs, giving one to each member of the company. In this way father Long got his start in life as a hog-raiser. The grandfather of our subject was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. Mr. Long was reared a farmer, and educated in the subscription schools that were held in the primitive log cabin, furnished with split pole seats, puncheon floors and desks, and greased paper for windows. There was also a huge fire-place and mud-and-stick chimney in one end of the room. Mr. Long came to this county in January, 1854, settling in Jackson Township, which was his home until November, 1884, when he removed to Bainbridge. He owns 160 acres of land on sections 31 and 32, Jackson Township. He was married November 21, 1839, to Miss Martha Maddox, daughter of Nelson and Martha [Beacham] Maddox, and to this union nine children have been born, six of whom are living --James P., Elizabeth F., Amanda D., Christian A., Everett and Julia P. The deceased are --Eliza A., Thomas F. and John W. Mrs. Long was born in Spencer County, Kentucky, July 14, 1822. James P. married Elizabeth Gorden, now deceased, and lives in Coal Bluff, Indiana; he has three children--Charles, Alice and Oren. Elizabeth married James M. Haller, now deceased, and has had two children--Chauncy, and Cora, who died at the age of eight years; Amanda married Wright Kay, now deceased; Christiana is the wife of Charles Meler, of Coal Bluff, and Julia is the wife of Andrew Campbell, of Bainbridge. Mr. Long served as village marshal one term, and has been deputy collector for the past twenty-five years. Himself and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church, as are also Amanda D. and Christiana.