Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Butler Co. JASPER NEWTON LONG, Butler County, was born in Barren County, Ky., May 28, 1840. His father, Thomas Long, was a native of Virginia, where he married Mary Bond, in 1822, and soon after came to Kentucky, and located in Barren County. Several years later he removed to Arkansas, where he died in 1864. Jasper Newton Long is the youngest of a family of eight children. His early education was obtained in the common schools; he has acquired a practical business education through self-culture and application to business. At the age of eighteen years, he began to work his own way in life, and for three years worked at logging, and made several trips to New Orleans. His wife, Maria Jane Bunch, to whom he was married on August 25, 1862, bore him twelve children: William J., Charles B., Joanna, Lee, Eddy and Elby (twins), Katie, Frank, Henry D., Emma, Ella and Nellie. In August, 1863, he raised a company in the Fifty-seventh Kentucky Volunteers (Federal) which were merged into the First Capital Guards. After serving as captain of Company B eighteen months, he was discharged from service and returned to Butler County, leased land and began farming, and on August 25, 1866, got burned out. In 1878, he bought fifty acres of land, to which he has added, by subsequent purchases, 1,250 acres, all by his shrewd management and close application to business. His farm of 1,300 acres is one of the best in his vicinity, and is improved with new frame dwelling, spacious barns and an orchard of 200 fruit trees. Two hundred acres are fenced and in cultivation. For the last five years, Mr. Long has been engaged in the timber trade in connection with his farming interests, and has been successful in his business transactions. He is a Democrat, but takes little interest in politics; his time is given to the interests of his farm, and the education of his family. Long Bond Bunch = Barren-KY VA AR http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/butler/long.jn.txt