Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-04
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1t Is Will lu6 UocpceS 4cctAhE "a feticS
that we announce the painful intelligence
of the death of that estimable lady, the
venerable Mrs. Juliana Long, widow of
the late DR.. David Long, which took
place Monday afternoon at her residence
on Kinsman street. She had been for
sometime past in feeble health, but not
apparently in dangerous condition. On
the day she died, she was, to every ap-
pearance, no worse than she had been for
the previous few days Towards the af-
ternoon she was taken suddenly with a
paralytic stroke, which soon ended in her
death
In the death of Mrs. Long, society has
lost one of its brightest ornaments, and
the large circle of her acquaintances will
miss the presence of warm hearted and
genial friend. The death of this lady has
severed the connecting link that bound
the present with the early settlement of
our city She emigrated from her native
town, Aurora, Cayuga county, New York,
with her father, the late Judge john Wal
worth, when she was child of six years
of age, in the year $500, and settled in
Painesville. In theyear 1906, her father
left Painesvills and moved to the
then settlement of Cleveland,
where she resided till the day of her
death. In April 1911, she was married
to DR.. David Long then the only physi-
clan, perhaps, in Northern Ohio. The
wedding took place in the log mansion of
her father, situated on what is now Pitts
bursh street. She and her husband took
up their residence in log house at the
foot of Water street, on the site now oc-
cupied by the Lighthouse. Subsequently
they moved to house in the rear of the
present location of the American House.
In 1881 the Doctor erected what was con-
sidersd in those days an elegant stone
mansion on the southwest corner of
Seneca and Superior streets. In 1886 he
built the house now owned by E. f. Gay
lord, Esq, and occupied it till ls46, when
be erected the present family residence.
Mrs. Long was fine specimen of that
noble race of women, the pioneer mothers
of the West. When she moved to this
section in 1900, the journey occupied
some weeks from Aurora to p the
mouth of Grand River, four miles
north of Painesville. The country
was then a bowling wllderness-withn no
roads, hotels, settlements, and scarcely
house. We of the present generation,
living in the midst of wealth, refinement !
and luxury, have little conception of the
hsrdships and privations endured by the
early settlers, of which Mrs. Long was
about the only survivor. She has literally |
grown up with the remarkable growth of |
our beautiful Forest City.
Mrs Long was woman of the purest
patriotism. 1t was her privilege to
scrape lint for the wounded of the battle
of Lake Erie, fifty-th-ee years ago, and
again for the wounded of the recent civil |
war.
In 1920 Mrs. Long was one of the
first that formed the Presbyterian
Church, of which church she was pious
and consistent communicsnt. She had
three children, only one of whom is living
Mrs Mary H. Severance, mother of
Messrs. Solon & Lewis Severance.
Thus it is that those who were connect
ed with the early history of our fair city
are being gathered to their eternal home,
and soon there will be none left to tell the
story of the sufferings and hfrdships en-
dured by the noble pioneers of our city.
May their memory be cherished for all
time to come by their grateful descend
ants.
The funeral of Mrs. Long viii take
place tomorrow Thursday afternoon, at
4 o'clock, from her late residence.