County of Christian, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 381-382. JUDGE A. V. LONG. One of the very early settlers of Christian County, and among those who have long since been gathered to their fathers, was Thomas S. Long, the father of Judge A. V. Long, who is now a resident of the city of Hopkinsville; was born in this county and has lived here all his life. Thomas S. was the son of Gabriel Long, the head of an old Virginia family, and who fought for American Independence in the war of the Revolution. Lucy Slaughter, who became the wife of Thomas S. Long, was the daughter of Col. John Slaughter, who also served as a Revolutionary soldier from Culpeper County, Va. Mr. Long, on first coming to the State of Kentucky in 1803, settled in Logan County, where he remained but a few years, and from there he came to Christian County probably in 1806. He was a plain, honest farmer, and died near Hopkinsville in the year 1826; his wife, Lucy Long, survived him nearly forty years, and died in Hopkinsville, in March, 1866. They had five children, of whom Judge A. V. Long is the eldest and only representative now living in the county; he has never married, but during the life of his mother devoted himself to the pleasant task of securing to her the comforts of life; he is a man of kind and generous impulses, possessed of more than ordinary mind, as well as a remarkable memory, which characteristics have rendered him of very great service to the writers of this history; his knowledge of this county is second perhaps to no one now living in it, he having made it his life-long home, and for eight consecutive years served as Judge of the County Court. Long Slaughter = Culpeper-VA Logan-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/christian/long.av.txt