Samuel Long, Part Two

The previous post included a newspaper article about the death of Samuel Long. This correspondence is also about his death. Thanks to Samuel's descendants Vincent and Norm and Becky for sharing this information. Double click on the photos to enlarge them. Then, use your back arrow to return to this page.
Page 2 states that the soldiers went to "arrest Sam Long", but I haven't found why he was being arrested. My own great Uncle Fred had told the story that a neighbor of his grandfather's was killed because he wouldn't join the army, so Sam Long's death was not an isolated incident and he might not have done anything wrong other than having slaves. Although Missouri was officially a "Slave State", with so many German Yankees, the area was very volatile.

Samuel Long, Part One

Samuel Long (1795-1862) was the brother of my ancestor Thomas Long (1792-1837). They came to Missouri from Allen County Kentucky around 1816-1817 with two of their sisters. After their father Bromfield Long died, their mother Elizabeth Mitchell Long came to Missouri to live with Samuel's family. The narrative below was written by Alfred Long one of Samuel's descendants.
This first part of the narrative was very exciting when I first read it because I believed that the Thomas Long mentioned was my ancestor. I wrote to one of Samuel's descendants, we compared family names, photos and were pretty sure we were related. DNA last summer confirmed our suspicions.