Author: Weaver,
James Howard, 21 July 2002
Surnames: LONG, HOWARD, JAMES. WEAVER
Lafayette King Long, b 12 January 1854 in Yazoo, Mississippi,
to Jesse Gilitan Long, Caswell County, North Carolina and Martha Louise King,
Alabama. Lafayette died 21 January 1945
in Rosebud, Texas and is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Rosebud, Texas.
Lafayette migrated with his family to Grimes County, Texas
sometime in the early part of 1871. His
father Jessie Long sold 160 acres of land in Carroll County, Mississippi to
George W. Wiggins on 24 December 1870, so it can be fairly accurate to say they
migrated immediately after selling the land.
Lafayette King Long married Margaret Lee Whitfield, January
16, 1877, in Grimes County, Texas.
Margaret was born 1859 in Madison Tennessee and died 1899 in Alderson,
Grimes County, Texas. This union
produced five children.
Robert Emmett Long, b October 22, 1877, d February 22,
1927, in Abilene, Tyler Texas. Married
to Margaret Cordill Moody. Robert was
Sheriff of Montgomery County Texas in early 1900.
John Albert Long, b Abt. 1881, Grimes County, Texas, d
Abt. 1885 in Grimes County, Texas.
Margaret (Maggie) Long b April 1882, in Grimes County,
Texas and married Dr. Everett. Margaret
attended Baylor College in Waco in 1900.
Unknown Long (F) b Abt. 1883, d Unknown
Bessie Ethel Long, b 15 October 1886 in Anderson, Grimes
County Texas, died 19 April 1966 in Houston Texas. Interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Rosebud, Texas next to her husband
Robert Lafayette Howard. Bessie married
Robert Lafayette Howard in Cameron, Milam County Texas, September 22, 1902.
Thelma Long, b 24 March 1888 in Anderson, Grimes County,
Texas and died November 1983, in Houston Texas. Thelma married Pete Bubela in Falls County, Texas. No issue were produced. Thelma and Pete Bubela owned and run a
grocery store in Rosebud, Texas from the thirties to late 1960/70.
After the death of his first wife, Margaret Whitfield, oral
history indicates that Lafayette may have had a extremely difficult time in
caring for his young children.
Lafayette met and married Cora Bell Garrell (maiden name unknown). Cora Bell was b August 15, 1869 in
Mississippi, died December 11, 1960, in Rosebud, Texas. She is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Rosebud,
with her husband. This marriage produces seven children, Horace, Purvis,
Author, Bryon, Mary, Martha and Willard.
Cora was stepmother to Emmett, Maggie, Bessie and Thelma. Two children from Lafayette first marriage
died in early childhood from Diptheria.
Cora bell had two children in
her first marriage, Claude and Frank Garrell.
My copyright permission (unpublished)is granted to Theresa
Carhart for inclusion, posting and releasing to general public this BIO of
Lafayette King Long on the Falls County Weg page. It may be used freely
by anyone who may wish to do so.