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Eva Elvira Woodhurst was born in Indiana on August 11th 1870 to parents Hazard (1) Woodhurst and his wife Margaret Jane (nee) Hayden. A descendant's report states that she was born in Richmond, Wayne Co.
The US 1880 Census finds her living with her parents in Salt River township, Ralls Co., Missouri. Her age is given there very inaccurately as "7".
She married Jeremiah ("Jerry") Adam Long at Antioch in Ralls Co. on September 9th 1891; he was born on December 28th 1868 in Atlas township, Pike Co., Illinois to parents Thomas Ingram Long and Margaret Ann (nee) Sapp.
The US 1900 Census finds Eva and Jerry living with their first four children in Salt River township where he was occupied as a farmer.
The US 1910 Census finds them living with six children in Hartford township, Pike Co., Missouri where he was again occupied as a farmer on a "general farm".
The family appears not to have been enumerated in either the 1920 or the 1930 Census.
The US 1940 Census finds Eva and Jerry, with no other family members, living in Waverly township, Lincoln Co., Missouri. He was still farming.
Eva Elvira died at the Levering Hospital in Hannibal, Marion Co., Missouri on January 21st 1949. Her death certificate gives her former place of residence as Bowling Green City in Pike Co. and confirms that she was born in Richmond on August 11th 1870. The cause of death was carcinoma of the stomach from which she had suffered since at least as far back as mid-1947. She was buried at the Lick Green Cemetery in Perry on January 24th.
A descendant reports that in his late years Jeremiah lived in a 150-year-old log cabin at the rear of his son Edmond's farm near Louisiana township in Pike Co.
Jeremiah died in Waverly township, Lincoln Co., where he had been living, on November 10th 1960. His death certificate describes him as a farmer and confirms that he was born on December 28th 1868 in Atlas, Illinois. The cause of death was coronary thrombosis due to arterio-sclerosis. He too was buried at the Lick Creek Cemetery, on November 13th.
An IGI family group record [IGI: Batch T900360] states that Lillie Dale was born on April 24th 1900 in Perry, Ralls Co., married James Thurman Young on September 12th 1919 at Curryville in Pike Co., Missouri and was buried on July 6th 1957. Another such record [IGI Batch No. not cited] states that James Thurman was born to parents William Price Young and his wife Rosa Lee (nee Williams) and that he was buried on September 14th 1967.
Edmond S. Long married Viola (born in 1913) and produced a daughter Judy.