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1 1880 US Census (District 78, Shelton, Knox County, Missouri). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Rhuban Long (age 48, b. WV), second wife Adda [Russell] (age 28, b. MO) and children [from Reuban's first marriage] Alex (age 16, b. MO), J. Morgan (age 14, b. MO), Jackson (age 11, b. MO), Margaret (age 5, b. MO) and [from Reuban's second marriage] unnamed son [Joseph] (age 1 mon, b. MO), living in Shelton, Missouri. Rhuban is listed as "farming" and indicates that both his parents were born in West Virginia. Adda indicates that both her parents were born in New York. Also in the household is daughter Sarah C. (age 20, b. MO) and her husband S. [Sheridan] Parsons (age 29, b. IL). S. Parsons indicates that his father was born in New York and his mother in Ohio.

2 1870 US Census (Lyon, Knox County, Missouri). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Reuben Long (age 38, b. VA), first wife Elmira [Lair] (age 27, b. MO) and children Catherine (age 10, b. MO), Alexander (age 6, b. MO), James M. (age 3, b. MO) and Thomas J. (age 1, b. MO), living in Lyon, Missouri. Also in the household are Maria Lamb (age 17, b. MO) "domestic servant" and Mary Anderson (age 72, b. KY) "no occupation." Mary's relationship to the family, if any, is unclear, but it is likely that she is an aunt of Elmira's. Reuben is listed as a "farmer."

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