Eighth Generation

518. Maria Barbara CLAPP was born on 29 December 1818 in Guilford Co., NC.^117,118,441 She died in Altoona, Wilson Co., KS.

Baptized 14 Mar 1819 by Rev. John Ebaugh, Brick Church.

Maria Barbara CLAPP and Abram LONG were married on 10 December 1837 in Brick Church, Guilford Co., NC. They appeared in the census in 1880 in Pleasant Valley, Wilson Co., KS.⁴⁴¹ Abram LONG Self M M W 67 NC Occ: Farmer Fa: TN Mo: NC
Barbara LONG Wife F M W 61 NC Occ: Keeping House Fa: NC Mo: NC
John LONG Son M S W 21 IL Occ: Farmer Fa: NC Mo: NC
Alice LONG Dau F S W 17 IL Occ: At Home Fa: NC Mo: NC
Alonzo LONG GSon M S W 4 KS Fa: IL Mo: IL Shortly after their marraige they moved to Danville, IL along with Maria's mother Catharnia Starr Clapp and some of her other children. Abram LONG was born on 2 November 1812 in Orange Co., NC.⁴⁴¹ He in 1849 in Dimmick Twp., Vermilion Co., IL. In the western tier of townships, Dimmick Township is one of special importance in population and wealth, and through it flows the Little Vermilion River and the Tomahawk, its principal tributary. The township was named in honor of its first settler, Daniel Dimmick, who here established his home in the year 1836, other early settlers having been Jarvis Swift, Elijah Tibballs, Richard Tibballs, Henry Swift, Lyman Swift, Albert Swift, Garret Fitzgerald, and Josiah Clingman.

The township was organized under the provisions of the general law of 1849, and the personnel of its first official corps was as follows: Supervisor, William Mitchell; clerk, Thomas W. Hennessey; assessor, Elijah Dimmick; collector, Luke W. Clark; overseer of the poor, John Taylor; highway commissioners, Josephus Dimmick, Herman Nisley, James L. Felton; justices of the peace,. John B. Long, Luke W. Clark; constables, John Florence, Abram Long. The little post village of Dimmick was platted in 1873, by Luke Doyle, and is a station on the Illinios Central Railroad.

FROM:
History of LaSalle County, Illinois
By: Michael Cyprian O'Byron
The Lewis Pullishing Company
Chicago and New York
1924 He died in Altoona, Wilson Co., KS. In 1868 Abram led a wagon train of 22 to Wilson Co., KS.

Maria Barbara CLAPP and Abram LONG had the following children: