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Regarding the Long and Phipps connection:
My understanding is that Jefferson Long who married Elizabeth Woodie (is that the same one?) was a son of Jonathan Long (John) and Susannah (Stamper) Long. Jonathan Long had a brother, Jesse Long.
Jesse Long was born 5 Jul 1798 in NC and died 1 Sep 1866 in Owen Co., IN. He first married Levisa (Lovicy) Long, who was born 26 May 1796 in NC and who died 29 Jan 1847 in Urbana Township, Monroe Co., IA. Jesse and Levisa Long divorced. Because she was divorced, she was known as "Widow Long." This did not mean that her husband was dead, but that she was a "grass widow," in order words divorced. Jesse Long then remarried 28 Aug 1849 in Owen Co., IN to Elizabeth Solsberry.
"Widow" Long was the aunt of the John and Aaron Long who murdered Col. Davenport and his wife, as discussed in Edward Bonney's 1845 book BANDITTI OF THE PRAIRIE. She was also the mother of Mary Elizabeth Long, called Polly, who married John Meshack Phipps.
Mary Elizabeth Long was born 12 Mar 1821 in Ashe Co., NC. One source refers to her middle name as "Stewart," but other sources refer to her as "Mary Elizabeth" or "Mary E." Edward Bonney referred to her as being of "rather delicate features."
On 17 Feb 1842 in Owen Co., IN, she married John Meshack Phipps, who Bonney calls "Shack Phips." At least one of the early editions of Bonney's book includes an illustration of Bonney visiting with Mary Elizabeth (Long) Phipps and Levisa ("Widow") Long in Widow Long's cabin. The faces are probably drawn according to an artist's imagination, however, rather than depicting how they actually looked.
Mary Elizabeth ("Polly") (Long) Phipps, wife of John Meshack Phipps, died 14 Nov 1906 at Shenandoah, Page Co., IA, where she is buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery. John Meshack Phipps died 10 Dec 1916 at Farragut, Fisher Township, Fremont Co., IA and was buried 12 Dec 1916 in Shenandoah, Page Co., IA in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
I have lots of information and a couple photos of John Meshack Phipps. He was covered in numerous newspaper articles. He killed a bear when he was 14, then lived something of an outlaw life. While living in Missouri, he became a friend of Jesse James. Eventually he experienced a Methodist conversion, then later became a Congregationalist. He lived to be 104. Up to the time of his death he hoed in his garden, read without glasses, was mentally alert, and was a vegetarian. He believed in bathing in icy water and walking around barefoot in the snow as a way to ward off the effects of old age.
He became a minor celebrity when muckraking author Ida Tarbell wrote a history of the Standard Oil Co. and suggested that the father of John D. Rockefeller was living under a phony name in a little town in Iowa. As a result, reporters thought John Meshack Phipps was the man and kept trying to get him to confess that this was who he was.
His twin brother Eli Shadrack lived to be 99. He found gold during the California Gold Rush, then found coal under his own farm. The twins have been listed in some editions of Guinness' Book of World Records as being the oldest twins on record, although this seems to be based on an erroneous 1803 birthdate. They were both born in 1812, sons of my great-great-grandparents Jesse Phipps and Jennie (Spurlin) Phipps.
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