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Joseph Longley & Priscilla Patterson Family

Their youngest son, John Posey Longley

Page Updated 23 Sep 2004

 

 

 John Posey Longley (1829-1896), son of Joseph Longley & Priscilla Patterson, grandson of William Longley & Mary Ann Bodine

 Oliver Dee Longley (1871-1965), son of John Posey Longley & Ruthy Smith, daughter of Nelson Smith (ca 1800-1836) & Dorcas Jones, Austin Colonists arr TX Mar 1829 from AR

 

  Robert Skelly & wife Dora Longley, daughter of John Posey

 

 John Posey Longley & Ruthy Smith Marriage License, performed by his brother Campbell, Justice of the Peace

 

   Ruthy Smith was the daughter of Nelson Smith and wife Dorcas, Austin Colonists in 1829. Dorcas was daughter of Stephen T. Jones and wife Susannah, Austin Colonists ~ both families came to TX from AR, where Stephen T. Jones had a 1820 Bounty Land Warrant for service in the War of 1812.

Stephen Jones was on the Austin Register as arriving Dec 1828, took oath 27th.

Nelson Smith arrived March 1829, took oath Dec 21. Stephen & Nelson were living in Illinois after by 1806 when Dorcas was born, and in 1812, received the Bounty Land Grant in 1820, the year William was born, and a least until Rebecca was born in 1824, according to census records. They went to Arkansas between 1824-1828, sold the land, and immediately left for Texas. By then Dorcas must have married Nelson in Arkansas, unless he was from Illinois also.

 

 

John Posey Longley's son Oliver Longley (left), wife Mary (right) (Barbara Longley Bivins' grandparents) with sons Garvin and Leo Longley

 

Sons of Mary & Oliver Longley after World War II: Left to Right: Garvin, Orbra, Charles, Leo, Russell.

Photos Courtesy of Barbara Longley Bivins

   

 Russell Longley, prob. in London, by American Red Cross, World War II (Barbara Bivins' father)

 Russell, Leo, Orbra, Garvin & Charlie Longley with their father Oliver Dee Longley

 

Annie Longley & brother "Crippled Bill" Longley

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