Individual Details

1880 Census. Walker Co, AL, Twp 14, Village of Jasper, Hh 6
B. M. Long, age 52., Merchant, b. GA, parents b. TN
C. A., Wife, age 46, b. GA as were her parents.
H. W., son, age 25, lawyer, b. GA. J. W., son, age 16, at school. Ida, daughter, age 13. Lou, daughter, age 11. Ada, daughter, age 10. Rafe, son, age 8. Jessee, son, age 6, first child born in AL, Edgar, son, age 4.
The names of eleven servants follow.


The Daily Constitution, Atlanta, GA, 14 Dec 1902, Carrollton, GA news:
"Hon. Ben M. Long, a pioneer of this county, being the first white child born in Carroll county, but who located in Jasper County, Alabama, several years ago, where he wields a wide influence as a capitalist and stateman, spent several days the past week here visiting his daughters, Mesdames C. H. Stewart and Sidney Holderness, and his son, Hon. Whitt Long.

The Daily Constitution, Atlanta, GA, 21 Dec 1902, Carrollton, GA, news:
"At the elegant home of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Holderness, of Dixie Street, on the 12th instant, they complimented Mr. Holderness' aded mother, Mrs. W. T. Holderness with a birthday party. An elegant dinner was served in her honor and many of the aged matrons of the city attended."


Biography of Ada's father:
LONG, BENJAMIN McFARLAND,
merchant, was born November 5, 1827, at Carrollton, Ga., and died June 17, 1903, at Cordova; son of John and Nancy Davis (Long) Long, who lived at Marshall's Ferry, Grainger County, Tenn., until 1826, when they moved to Carrollton, Ga., the former a native of Marshall's Ferry, Tenn., who served in the Georgia legislature, 1868-1869, and was clerk of the superior court at Carrollton, Ga., for forty years; grandson of Robert and Isabel (Leeper) Long, who lived at Marshall's Ferry, Tenn., and of James and Jane (Walker) Long, of Carter's Valley, Hawkins County, Tenn. The Long family came from Belfast, Ireland, and settled in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1750. Mr. Long was the first white child born in Carroll County, Ga., and was reared and educated at Carrollton. He was one of the first volunteers in the Mexican War, and served throughout that war under the command of Robert E. Lee. He became a merchant in partnership with his father at Carrollton, 1849-1856, and continued in the mercantile business for the remainder of his life. He moved to Alabama before the War of Secession, and settled near Cordova, Walker County. At the beginning of the war, he raised the first company from that county, was elected captain, and entered the C. S. Army as captain of Co. G, Col. Looney's regiment, Hindman's division. He conducted his business in Jasper for a long while after the war was ended, then moved to Cordova, and founded that town. He was a leader in the coal development of Walker Cunty, and was directly responsible for the location of Indian head mills at Cordova. He was a member of the constitutional convention in 1865; served in the Georgia legislature, 1872-1874, and in the Alabama  legislature, 1880-1882; was presidential elector from the sixth Alabama district in 1884; was a candidate for governor of Alabama on the Republican ticket, 1890; and was the candidate of that party for congress in 1894. He was opposed to secession, was originally a Whig, then became a Know-Nothing, and after the War of Secession was affiliated with the Republican party. He was a Methodist, and a Royal Arch Mason. Married : October 17, 1854. near Carrollton, Ga., to Amanda Caroline, daughter of Henry Pope and Melissa Caroline (Hinton) Wootten, who lived at Wllkes County, Ga., prior to their residence in Carroll County, Ga. Children: 1. Henry Whitfield, merchant at Cordova, 1884-1899, and at Carrollton, Ga., after that time, m. at Carrollton, Ga., Lula Mandeville; 2. John Benjamin, m. Missouri Musgrove, Jasper; 3. Carrie Gertrude, m. (1) Newton Carnak, (2) Roy Garner, Lawrenceburg, Tenn.; 4. Thomas Leeper (q. v.); 5. Robert Wootten, Jasper; 6. Ida Jane, m. Dr. J. M. Miller, Cordova; 7. Effie Lou, m. Horace Stewart, Carrollton, Ga.; 8. Ada Clare, m. Sidney Holderness, Carrollton, Ga.; 9. Pope McFarland, m. Bertie Ellis, Cordova; 10. Jesse Orville, m. Nona Bell Sprott, Jasper; 11. Edgar Wootten, m. Catherine Phifer, Cordova, Last residence: Cordova.
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

Birth	9 Jan 1871	Georgia
Marriage	18 May 1892	Walker County, Alabama - Sidney Holderness Sr.
Death	14 Oct 1940

Spouse	Sidney Holderness Sr. (1864 - 1939)
Child	Ben Scott Holderness (1895 - 1896)
Child	Clare Holderness (1897 - 1943)
Child	Sidney Holderness (1899 - 1974)