This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Long, Turner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QBC.2ACI/358.439.653.949.1.1 Message Board Post: I am a descendant of Sgt. Christopher Long who married Sarah Turner. "He married Sarah Turner, the daughter of James and Elsie Turner, in the early part of the year 1773, she being of English parentage, and a native of Culpepper County, Virginia." John Turner Long, Genealogy of the Descendants of Ware Long of Culpeper County, Virginia (1908). His brother Nicholas married her sister Margaret. (sons of Ware Long) Sarah and Margaret's parents were James and Elsie Turner. "The Turner Family "Of the Turners (the family of Sarah Turner Long), little is known. They were from England and settled in Virginia long before the Revolution. There were several children in the family younger than Sarah, these names appear in their respective order; William, Ellis, Charles, Margaret, and several younger girls, names unknown. "During the Revolution, they espoused the cause of the Colonists against the Mother country, which put them in sympathy with the Long family. "In the language of the Narrator, 'This was a long lived, industrious, peaceable, and law abiding family.' "A sad story in the family history reads thus; One of the younger daughters in company with the daughter of a neighbor once attempted to cross over one of the mountain ranges of Virginia in the winter. They were overtaken by a snowstorm and soon lost their way. After wandering about for a time in a vain attempt to find their path, they took refuge from the storm in a cave. During the night, the drifting snow completely closed the mouth of the cave, thus entombing the unfortunate girls alive. A diligent search was made for the missing girls by anxious friends, but all efforts to find them were in vain. Not until more than a year after their disappearance, were they accidentally discovered in the cave, dead and firmly clasped in each other’s arms, in which attitude they had perished from cold and hunger." Id. "Nicholas Long (No. 10) the ninth in line of the Second Generation, was born in 1754, a native of Culpepper County, Virginia. What his occupation was is unknown to us now. To him or his brother Henry belongs the honor of having married Margaret Turner, the daughter of James and Elsie Turner and sister of Sarah, wife of our Christopher Long (No. 2). Our informant was not certain which brother had the honor." Id. John Turner Long's "informant" was his grandfather Joel Long, b. March 6, 1797 in Patrick Co., Virginia, and died September 10, 1869. Joel was the son of Christopher Long and Sarah Turner. His interviews with his grandfather took place on January 1, 1868 in Leesburg, Indiana and continued into 1869. He continued to gather information and records and published his genealogy at the Newberry Library in Chicago in 1908. I would be fascinated to see what you have gathered on the Turner families of Culpeper Co.