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Clarence Elmer Long

Birth	:	1 Feb 1890 Organ Cave, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
Death	:	22 Jan 1976 Clifton Forge, Alleghany County, Virginia, USA
Burial	:	Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Ashland County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.8661003, -82.3285980
Description	:	Clarence Elmer Long, the fourth child of Achilles Murat Long & Nancy Ann Bennett, was born and raised in Irish Corner District, Greenbrier Co., on Monroe Draft Road about three miles south of Caldwell, West Virginia. When Clarence was sixteen years of age, he went to work as a laborer in the Maintenance of Way Department, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company with his brother Vernal who was section foreman at Renick, West Virginia. Greenbrier sub-division. Shortly after this, he worked for several years as a laborer with his Uncle Obie T. Bennett who was section foreman on the C&O main line at Caldwell, West... Read More	Clarence Elmer Long, the fourth child of Achilles Murat Long & Nancy Ann Bennett, was born and raised in Irish Corner District, Greenbrier Co., on Monroe Draft Road about three miles south of Caldwell, West Virginia. When Clarence was sixteen years of age, he went to work as a laborer in the Maintenance of Way Department, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company with his brother Vernal who was section foreman at Renick, West Virginia. Greenbrier sub-division. Shortly after this, he worked for several years as a laborer with his Uncle Obie T. Bennett who was section foreman on the C&O main line at Caldwell, West Virginia. Clarence and his brothers, who worked in the Maintenance of Way Department for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, were called out to work at all hours both day and night, in all kinds of weather due to train derailments, slides, washouts, broken rails and almost anything else that needed immediate attention. One of the hardest things to do was go out in the middle of the night to remove dead bodies from the track. On one occasion, the county coroner had to view a body before it could be removed from the track at Backbone, Virginia. It was a severely cold and windy night when Clarence met the coroner at Moss Run, Virginia, and took him to Backbone on his open top motor car. They were both about to freeze making the four miles round trip. It was determined that the man had been previously killed and placed on the tracks in an attempt to cover up the crime and place the responsibility for the death on the railway company. In 1911, at age 21, Clarence married Effie Myrtle Morgan, daughter of Andrew Jackson Morgan and Rebecca Jane Honaker Morgan. He was still working as a laborer at Caldwell and they set up housekeeping in the section foreman's house. Two of their children, Oleta and Shirley, were borne there. About 1917, he was assigned section foreman of section No. 106 at Backbone, Virginia, on the east slope of the Alleghany Mountains where two of their children, Edna and Hazel, were born. In 1920, he bought a house on East Main Street, Covington, Virginia, where their only son, Roy, was born. They disposed of the house in Covington and bought five acres of land at Moss Run, Virginia, from Hugh McAlister and contracted Arch Morris to cut the timber and saw it into lumber for use in building their new home. In the meantime, while the house was being built, they moved back in the C& O section house at Backbone. In 1923, they moved into their new home at Moss Run, Virginia, where their other children, Ina Mae, Enscovene and Arlene were born. Clarence retired from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company in 1958 after having worked fifty years.

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Clarence Elmer Long's memorial is located at: Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Ashland County, USA.
When did Clarence Elmer Long death?
Clarence Elmer Long death on 22 Jan 1976 in Clifton Forge, Alleghany County, Virginia, USA
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Latitude: 40.8661003
Longitude: -82.3285980

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Effie Myrtle Morgan Long

(1893 - 1964)

Siblings

Mary Magdalene Long Dodrill

(1895 - 1975)

Children

Shirley Avanelle Long Griffith

(1914 - 1964)

Ina Mae Long Church

(1924 - 2005)

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Nearby Cemetories:

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Coordinate: 40.8661003, -82.3285980

2. Yeisley Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8614200, -82.2919280

3. Ashland County Memorial Park
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Coordinate: 40.9068985, -82.3399963

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7. Geib Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8633385, -82.3922043

8. Smeltzer Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8396988, -82.3867035

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13. Dickey Church Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8419991, -82.2529984

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Coordinate: 40.9275068, -82.3155817

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Coordinate: 40.8833008, -82.2493973

16. Imhoff Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8699989, -82.4131012

17. Clear Creek Church of God Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.9159700, -82.3873000

18. Reformed Church Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.9160940, -82.3878960

19. Vesper Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.7986681, -82.3334957

20. Nankin Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.9217228, -82.2759943

21. Miller Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.7989006, -82.3069000

22. Brubaker Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8269200, -82.4046170

23. Strickland Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.7983017, -82.3058014

24. Fast Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.9421997, -82.3368988