History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 757. [Nicholas County] [Carlisle City and Precinct] JOHN LONG, farmer, P. O. Carlisle, was born in what is now Nicholas County near Millersburg, in the year 1800, Nov. 28. He has always lived in the county and been identified with its interests. His parents were Eliakim and Jemima (Victor) Long, natives of Maryland, near Snow Hill, where he learned the trade of shoemaking; she was a daughter of John Victor, who died in Maryland; his wife, Hannah (Brewington) Victor, came to Nicholas County in 1790 with four sons and three daughters, all of whom married and settled in the county; Eliakim is a son of Delves Long, who only had two sons and a daughter, who married John McCauley, and finally moved to Kentucky; they had two sons, both of whom left children in Ohio. Wm. Long, an uncle to our subject, was killed by a horse, he had two daughters, who married and located in the West, and a son who went to sea and was not heard from. The father of John was married about 1796, and had eleven children, the oldest born in 1798; there were nine sons and two daughters; all had children but two sons. William, deceased, settled in Harrison County; Polly, now the widow of Parish Jones, residing in Vermillion, Ill.; James, deceased, settled in same county; Nancy, deceased, wife of John C. Cassidy, left children in Missouri; Levi, residing in Vermillion County, Ill.; Littleton (see hist.), Eliakim, in Putman County, Ind.; Samuel, in Kansas. The subject of this sketch received a very limited education and worked on the farm with his father until of age. In 1825, he was married to Nancy Young, whom he buried after eight weeks of married life. On the 6th of Sept. 1827, he was again married, to Nancy Nesbit, who was born upon the farm where they now reside, April 16, 1800; she a daughter of Nathan and Sarah (Huston), who were natives of Pennsylvania, near Carlisle, but settled in Bourbon County in 1788; some of the family were among the original settlers of Bourbon; Sarah was a daughter of Joseph, who was a prominent man in Pennsylvania; Nathan was a son of John. By this marriage Mr. Long had two children: Sarah J., born Sept. 4, 1837, now the wife of Charles Wise; John W., May 9, 1841, married Elizabeth F. Victor, Dec. 20, 1866; she born Aug. 23, 1845, an only child who lived to maturity, of George and Sarah (Hedges) Victor, who were natives of Kentucky. They have one child, George Victor, a daughter born June 28, 1869. They are devoted to a general agriculture and stockraising; religiously, they are connected with the Presbyterian Church. Long Victor Brewington Jones Cassidy Young Nesbit Huston Wise Hedges = Harrison-KY Vermillion-IL Putman-IN KS PA MD MO OH http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/nicholas/long.j.txt