COUNTY NAME: Barry

NAME: Hiram Long - No Stone

BIRTH DATE: May 20, 1796 - East TN

DEATH DATE: 1862, Barry Co., MO

CEMETERY NAME: Maddy?

INSCRIPTION: No Stone

BUSHWHACKER STORY:

We learned from Goodspeed's account Barry County, MO, page 1034 that Hiram Long and one of his sons was murdered in Barry County, MO. The sketch listed that Simon H. Long was a son of Hiram and we think that John Dake Long was the son who might have been murdered at the same time as Hiram. Goodspeed reports that Simeon H. Long, a farmer and a stock raiser of Barry County, Mo was born in Greene County, Indiana, in 1820, and is the second child of Hiram and Anna (Lakey) Long. Hiram was born in East Tennessee on May 20, 1796, and was reared on a farm. He emigrated from his native state to Indiana, and was there married on Feb 11, 1814. His wife was born in Ohio on March 19, 1798. They became the parents of eleven children, four of whom are living.

Hiram Long came with his family to Missouri in 1834, locating in Ripley County. He afterward removed to Barry County where he was brutally murdered in 1862. During the Civil War he tried hard to remain with his family in peace, taking no part then in the contest between the North and the South. A band of Southern men came to his home and made inquiry as to his principles. Upon finding him a Union man they took him and one of his sons out and shot them. After the murder of his father and brother, Simeon H. Long enlisted in the Federal army, joining the Eighth Missouri Cavalry, with which he served three years, being mustered out of service at Little Rock, Ark., on July 20, 1865.

NOTES: Some of my notes include the estate settlement of John Dake Long, who may have been the other person who was murdered at same time as Hiram Long. Hiram Long was my 4th great-grandfather and John Dake Long was my 3rd great-grandfather. Most of this family is buried in Maddy Cemetery.