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Long, Jacob H. (1827-1908)
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History of Tucker County, West Virginia
From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time.
by Hu Maxwell
Kingwood, W. Va.; Preston Publishing Company, 1884.

Pages 435-436

Jacob H. Long, son of John Long, of Randolph, was born in 1827; is
of English and German descent; married Lucinda Parsons, daughter of
David Parsons, who was killed by a falling tree in 1853. Children:
Virginia, David, Sarah D., Albert, Thomas, Tazell, Minnie, Grace,
Emma, Maud, Blanche and Lulu. He is a farmer of 454 acres, with 150
acres improved; was a magistrate in this part of Tucker before the
formation of the county, and has held that office two terms since;
was four years president of the county court, and in 1875 was
elected to the Legislature, where he was when the capitol was
removed from Wheeling to Charleston; was again, in 1880, elected
president of the county court by an overwhelming majority; but the
amendment to the constitution went into effect and did away with
the office; was several years commissioner to settle with the
sheriff, and has been president of the board of education.

During the war he was taken prisoner and was carried to Wheeling,
where he lay three months in jail. The charge against him was
treason; he was sent to Clarksburg for trial, and upon the petition
of Captain Hall, got his liberty. Pierpont had already appointed
him justice of the peace. His commission was, however, revoked in a
week or two by a plot of his enemies. Mr. Long says that a man
named Moore was the first settler in the Holly Meadows, and that he
lived on the Callihan farm.

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Register of Deaths, Tucker County, WV
(Page 112, Line No. 1)
FULL-NAME: Jacob H. Long
DEATH-DATE: March 19, 1908
DEATH-PLACE: Parsons
CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Pneumonia
AGE-AT-DEATH: 80 years
OCCUPATION: Farmer
MARITAL-STATUS: Married
INFORMANT: J. W. Minear, Undertaker

(wife of Jacob H. Long)
From Death Certificate, Tucker County, WV #10376
FULL-NAME: Lucinda Long
BIRTH-DATE: August 12, 1834
BIRTH-PLACE: Randolph Co., W.Va.
DEATH-DATE: February 15, 1918 (at age 83y-7m-3d)
DEATH-PLACE: Parsons, Black Fork District, Tucker County, WV
MARITAL-STATUS: Widow
OCCUPATION: Housewife
FATHER: David Parsons (born in Randolph Co., W.Va.)
MOTHER: Edith Taggart (born in Randolph Co., W.Va.)
CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Senile, Heart failure or Chronic Myocarditis
INFORMANT: Parsons Family History, Parsons, W.Va.
BURIAL: Parsons, W.Va.

There is a double-tombstone in Parsons Cemetery, Tucker County, WV

    Jacob H. Long (Dec. 22, 1827 -- Mar. 19, 1908)
    Lucinda Parsons Long (Aug 12, 1894 -- Feb 15, 1918)
    
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