This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Long Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1MB.2ACI/2990.2 Message Board Post: Don't find an obit for Elmer Long in the Joplin Public Library genealogy index/card file system---except that of an Elmer J. Long, spouse Frances Palmer. This Elmer died 14 May 1946--a good 20 years before the Elmer Long you speak of. If you think this might be your man, let me know and I'll get a copy of the obit. Webb City Library geneaology section might be a good place to check--as they have index cards there and the Webb City Sentinel newspaper on microfilm as well.