Individual Details

James Raymond "Ray" Long

(15 Dec 1891 - 29 Nov 1978)

Ray is on the 1900 US Census living with Catherine Long his Grandmother in Howard County, Iowa.
He lived in Cresco, Iowa when older.
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He had 2 wives. The wives were sisters. He had 2 daughters with the first wife and 3 children with the second wife.
One of his daughters was named Helen Long and another was Eleanor Long Rooks.
Eleanor corresponded with Lillian. Her address: Eleanor Rooks
RFD- Box 210
Fairfax, IA 52228
She was 35 in 1967.
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Ray was 81 in Dec 1972
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Ray was raised by Lawrence's sister, May.
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Ray and family lived on the Long homestead in Howard Center township. Aunt Mary and Uncle John lived there, too. John died in 1930 and Mary in 1931.
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1930 US Census Howard Center Howard IA
18/18 Ray Long 38 m at 22 SD IA WI farmer general farm farm #17
Mary E 38 m at 37 IA IA IA none
Hulda M 15 IA SD IA
Helen R 12 IA SD IA
Lois G 4/12 IA SD IA
John W 61 IA Ire Ire none
Mary T 64 IA Ire Ire none

Year: 1930; Census Place: Howard Center, Howard, Iowa; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0010; FHL microfilm: 2340394
Description
District: 0010; Description: HOWARD CENTER TOWNSHIP
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
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Picture of Ella and Ray is this Ray who was Lawrence & Hulda's son that sister May raised. (No can't be him because WWII was in 1940's and he would have been in his 50's)

Events

Birth15 Dec 1891Henry, Codington, South Dakota, United States
Marriage6 May 1914Esther Rose Collins
Marriage5 Feb 1929Cresco, Howard, Iowa, United States - Mary Ellen Collins
Death29 Nov 1978Cresco, Howard, Iowa, United States

Families

SpouseEsther Rose Collins (1895 - 1928)
ChildHulda Mary Long (1915 - 1989)
ChildHelen Rose Long (1918 - 1986)
SpouseMary Ellen Collins (1892 - 1975)
ChildEleanor Elizabeth Long (1932 - 1997)
ChildLaurence Raymond "Larry" Long (1935 - 1990)
ChildLois Gertrude Long (1930 - )
FatherLaurence Long (1857 - 1920)
MotherHulda Van Sickle ( - 1901)

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