---------- > From: Louise <[email protected]> > To: LOUISE <[email protected]> > Subject: Pioneer Recollections - James Harvey LONG > Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 10:33 PM > > PIONEER RECOLLECTIONS by E.J. & Hetty Sutherland > JAMES HARVEY LONG > April 14, 1929 > > Clintwood, Virginia > I was born May 19, 1844. My Long ancestors were of English descent, and > some of them lived in North Carolina and East Tennessee. My grandfather, > Andrew Long, and his brother, Dr. Henry Long, moved from East Tennessee - > probably Washington County to Russe11 County, Virginia. My grandfather > settled within two miles of the Old Courthouse (now called Dickensonville) > where he lived and died. He married Polly Litton, and was farmer. His > children were: Watson, James, Andrew, Harvey, Mattie, Elizabeth (married a > Purcell), and Nancy (single). > Another Long family lived near the mouth of Dumps Creek in Russell County. > They moved to Alabama. I have heard my father talk about them. I have heard > Uncle Jerry Bolling tell about one of these Longs being killed by Indians > near Bull Run in Wise County. Each was looking for the other. Long hid > behind a lynn tree, and the Indian shot him. The bullet glanced through > the tree and killed Long. > Watson Long married a Gose He left Russell County before the Civil War and > went to Pike > County, Illinois, where he died. He had at least one child, Watson. > James Long married Mary Browning and lived at Hawkins Mill, near Bolton. > Their > en were: Cynthia, James Harvey, Wesley and Andrew. > Andrew Long (my father) was born February __, 1815, and died April __, > 1868. He > married Elizabeth Gibson (born April __, 1821 and died June __, 1905), a > daughter of William > and Tabitha (Dickenson) Gibson. They moved to the Glady Fork of Pound River > in Wise > County in November, 1855. They lived there until their deaths. Their > children were: William Watson (died in Kansas, aged 78 years), James Harvey > (myself), Margaret, Mattie (married Steve Banner), Clark Cunningham, Floyd, > William Gilmer, Tabitha (married Martin Sowards) and Alice . I > was born two miles east of Dickensonville on Copper Creek. I lived there > and moved > with parents to Pound in 1855. There were very few people living on the > Pound then. Daniel Short, Jim Short, Alex Short, and Joe Short (all sons > of Billy Short) lived on Pound. The first Bolling there was old Uncle > Bennie Bolling. Granddaddy Jerry Boiling (as we called as his son, and > Granddaddy Jerry told me that his father moved there in the Revolutionary > War. The Bollings were Irish. Jerry's brother, Dulaney Bolling, moved to > Missouri, where he died. A town site was afterwards made on his farm. > I married on November 25, 1869, Emily Elizabeth Dotson, a daughter > We lived on Glady Fork of Pound until September, 1882, when we moved to > Clintwood, where we have lived since. I came here just after the > county-seat was located here and contracted and built the first courthouse > here. > >