Fairfield County is in central Ohio. The county seat is Lancaster.
In the 1830s settlers began arriving inIowa from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Kentucky, and Virginia. Iowa became a state in 1846.
John H. Long was born in January, 1814 in Fairfield County, Ohio. According to census records, his parents were both born in Pennsylvania.
His family is described in detail in the section on the John H. Long Family. His first wife was Sarah Ann LeFevre. His son, Thomas Long's, death certificate said that his mother was Mary LeFevre, but the marriage record says Sarah Ann.
He became a widower again when Sarah died May 28, 1903 in Aurora, Nebraska.
His son Harry's biography said he was a Republican and for many years was a justice of the peace. During his active years he was a farmer in Iowa, but had been retired for a long period prior to 1906, when he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska
Nebraska was not settled by many European-Americans until 1848. In the 1860s, the government took Native American land and opened it for homesteaders. Nebraska became the 37th state on March 1, 1867,
