An American Family History

David Alvin Long was born February 3, 1877 in Aurora, Hamilton County, Nebraska. His father was probably John H. Long. According to the 1900 census, his father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother in Ohio.

Miss Rosa Long the fourteen-year -old daughter of J H Long residing one and one-half miles west of Aurora was accidentally shot by her brother, Alvin Long, last Monday while on their way to school. The boy had a 23-calibre revolver in his possession which he was carelessly playing with when it was discharged the ball striking his sister directly under nose midway between the nose and the margin of the lip coursing to the left and lodging in the cheek between three and four inches from the point of entrance. Dr W. S. Williamson was called to attend the case and reports the patient as doing nicely. (The Republican-Register, December 1, 1893, Page 5)

He married Cora Rosalia Benson. Cora was born October 12, 1881 in Hamilton, Nebraska. Her parents were Alonzo Jonathan Benson and Lydia Ellsworth.

David and Cora's children were:
Earl A. Long (1901),
Lyle Everett Long (1904, married Mable Lola Davis), and
Violet L. Long Cady (1906, married John Franklin Cady).

At the time of the 1910 census, the family was living in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska. David was doing odd jobs.

When his brother Harry's biography was written, he was a farmer near St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri.

In 1920 Cora was married to Howard Bush and they had a ten month old baby girl named Silian M. Bush. Earl G., Lyle E. and Violet S. Long were living with Cora and their stepfather.

Cora died on January 9, 1930 in Grand Island, Nebraska and was laid to rest in Grand Island Cemetery.

February, 1881