This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gFC.2ACI/261.264.267.277.1.1 Message Board Post: Michael, it has been many months since you posted a message regarding Kenyon F. Long ( Not "E." - middle name is "Frank, name by which he was usually known".). But I just recently checked the Ancestry.com board for him. He married my great aunt, Julia Burns, a daughter of John F. Burns. They had four children, Alton, Ethel, Helen and Marie. I have quite a bit of info on the Burns descendants, including the family of Frank and Jul, who lived in Williston N.D. from prior to World War I, until they died. >From which "Long" family are you" ( Alton George, Donald, Covertt, ???) HERE is copy of some info for you... ***************** The following is copy of an article from The Williston Herald that probably appeared about 1936 - It was sent to KDT by Alton George Long, Minot, ND in Feb. 1998 [[ We Have WITH US TODAY:]] Kenyon F. Long of Williston, Great Northern railroad night yardmaster, has been with the "road" for over 30 years but few of the men know Kenyon. To them the keen eyed yardmaster is plain Frank. Franklin is his second name but he never used it any more than most people use additional titles, until a Wisconsin lumberman adopted it in abbreviated form and he's been "Frank" ever since, although the telephone list still shows K. F. Long. He was only 15 years but a husky of 190 pounds when he left his home in Downsville, Wisconsin, where he was born on March 25, 1873, and went to the lumber camps seeking employment. He was hired. "What's your name?, asked the foreman. "Kenyon Long," "Kenyon! H---, these Swedes and Norwegians will murder that. Haven't you got some other handle?" Timidly, he told his second name of "Franklin." The last three letters might well have been absent. The foreman's face lighted up, he exclaimed "Frank!" and it's been that ever since. He worked for three years in the lumber camps with the Wisconsin white pine "draggings logs" in the winter with oxen and in the spring was put in charge of a boat of workers. It was their duty to cruise up and down the rivers and spring creeks to keep the logs from "jamming". Long was well on the way to become a heavy set man starting with that weight as a youngster but malaria and typhoid fever stepped in and cut him down to a little less that 100 pounds and he's never regained his former weight. He left lumbering, going to Minnesota to farm until 1896, then to North Carolina on a fruit farm until 1906, starting with the GN at Minot that fall. He worked up gradually from his job as a laborer to yardmaster, coming to Williston in 1912 and remaining here since that time. He is a Methodist and a member of the Masonic Lodge. His wife's maiden name was Julia Burns and they were married in New Ulm, Minn. in 1892. One son is Alton, of Cutbank, Mont.; three daughters are Mrs. Ethel York, Dalhart, Tex.; Mrs. Helen Paige, Williston; and Mrs. Marie Peterson of Anita, Iowa. His mother is Mrs. Anne M. Long, 90 years old of Downsville, Wisconsin. Living brothers and sisters out of the original 16 are L. A. of Hillsboro, Oregon; Leon and Clifford of Downsville; Mrs. Milo Damon, Vancouver, Washington, and Mrs. Genevieve Erickson of Battle Ground, Washington. (END of ITEM)) ************** I would be happy to exchange additional info. Kenneth D. (Ken) Toft, Seffner, Florida