Armel Long Family

Armel Long was born about 1792 in Pennsylvania and came with his parents, Noah and Sarah Long, to Butler County, Ohio, in 1805. He was guardian for his four minor brothers, David, Eli, Noah, Jr., and Elias, during the partition action of his father's land in 1822-24.

Armel Long married Hannah Grunden on July 24, 1814. Hannah was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, about 1780: The story is told that her father had sold her property for "Continental money", but this becoming worthless, he was not able to care for his large family so Hannah, age eleven, and his son, James, aged nine, were indentured out and they gradually drifted west and lost track of the rest of their family.

Armel Long died in September, 1827 and Hannah G. Long died on December 26, 1865 and is thought to have been buried in the Miltonville Cemetery, Butler County. Armel and Hannah had four children.

John Grunden Long was born on September 15, 1815 and married Hannah Squier. Their son, Hampton H. Long died at the age of ninety-two years in 1935 at Middletown, Ohio.

Louisa Long died as a child.

Noah Long was born on March 2, 1817 and died unmarried on December 3, 1848. His will gave everything he owned to his mother, including the brick house they lived in. He is buried the village of Trenton, Butler County, behind the old brick Baptist, or United Brethren Church.

George D. Long was born on November 17, 1819 in Butler County, Ohio and died in Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio.

George D. Long Family

George D. Long grew up in Butler County and his father died when George was eight years old. In 1853, George Long moved to Henry County, Ohio, where he bought a farm in Flatrock Township, just south of the Maumee River opposite Florida, Ohio. He was past youth at the time of the Civil War and he paid the draft premium instead of serving. In 1880, he sold out in Flatrock Township and bought a farm on the south edge of Napoleon next to the fairgrounds where he built a Victorian style home in 1882. In 1897, he retired and moved to West Washington Street in Napoleon where he died on February 26, 1898.

George was married three times and had the following issue. His first marriage was in 1847 in Butler County, Ohio, to Elizabeth Weaver and they had John Armel Long, Noah Long, and Louisa Long. His second marriage was to Elizabeth Trubey in Henry County and they had William H. Long, George Long, Franklin Long, Charles Long, Herman Long, and Nettie or Carie May Long. His third marriage was in 1883 at Napoleon, Ohio, to Hannah Rebecca Shelt Ice, widow of Minor Ice. THey had Arthur Long, Hester Fay Long, Inez L. Long, and Helen Long.

John Armel Long married Elizabeth Jane Jennie Nyswander. Their son, George Long married Emily and had two children, Dr. John F. Long and Mary Long. John lives in Columbus, Ohio, and Mary married Robert Hendevoon and lives in Wisconsin.

Noah Long married Eva Turk and lived in Henry County, Ohio.

Louisa Long married John Rush and lived near Florida, Ohio. She had ten children.

William H. Long went to Colorado when young, married there and had two daughters.

George Long died at the age of six months in 1863.

Franklin Long died in 1870 at the age of five years.

Charles Long was born in 1869 and married Josephine Heckler. They lived near Malinta and had children, Floyd, Herman and Lucille.

Herman Long was born in 1873 and married Frances Menninger. He had a shoe store in Bucyrus, Ohio. He had one son, John Long, who married and had children.

Carrie May, known as Nettie, had a twin brother, Reuben who died at the age of eighteen days. Nettie died on June 5, 1947. She married Pal Blank, a farmer and stock raiser in Henry County who died on December 18, 1935. Their children were Frances, born May 12, 1898 and married Otto W. Hess in 1916. See the Hess history in Volume I. Otto died in 1971. Their children are William Palmer, or Pal, born 1917. He married Virginia Engel and their children are Linta Hess,married Thomas Otermat and has son, Thomas, and Barbara Hess Thayer of Defiance, Ohio. Marolyn J. Hess was born in 1919 and married William D. Moore and had two children, Sandra Moore Teats, Maumee, Ohio and Tom Moore of Napoleon, Ohio. Ria Rita Hess was born in 1930 and married twice. First to Fred Leonhardt and had a daughter, Pamela. Her second marriage was to Clay Begley.

Kathryn J. Blank was born in 1909 and married Lester Knepper in 1936. They had two children, John David and Jane A. Jane married a Bechtel and lived in Toledo, Ohio.

Helen A. Blank was born in 1912 and married Richard Himel in 1937, and lives in Michigan.

Arthur Long died in infancy.

Hester Fay Long was born on March 8, 1886 and married Hadley King Rood of Norwalk, Ohio. Her daughter Helen married Charles Truxell and had two daughters, Alice and Sue.

Inez L. Long was born on November 6, 1888 and died at Norwalk, Ohio, on February 20, 1972. She married, in 1914, Jesse M. Overhuls of Napoleon, Ohio. Jesse died in 1935. They had three children. James M. Overhuls lives in Norwalk, Ohio, and has no issue. Robert Long Overhuls is a Petroleum Engineer and lives at Xenia, Ohio, and married Barbara Schock, of Norwalk and had daughters, Gael, Pamela, and Jill. Mary Lou Overhuls Kelly married Thomas Adair, of Xenia, and has Kathleen, Kathryn and James Kelly.

Helen Long was born on August 19, 1892 and died at Tampa, Florida, it is thought in 1967. She married Donald Bissonnette, Napoleon, Ohio, and had Stephen, retired from the U. S. Air Force and lives in Tampa, who married Mary and had one son, Mark; and Thomas Bissonnette, an attorney at Tampa, Florida, who married Chloe and has three daughters.

From: a partial history of the Long family, written by James M. Overhuls