Wednesday, January 20, 2021

The Headstone of Ella Long


Ella Long
Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell

  
                               

Ella Long was the daughter of Oden and Sarah Long.  Ella lived in Ward 1 in the Village of Tangipahoa. According to the 1940 United States Federal Census, she was a widow and her birthplace was Louisiana. She was a house cleaner for a private family.  Her father Oden was born in Mississippi in 1853. Her siblings are; Lizza, Flora, Florence, Chann, William, George, Jessie, Martha, Thomas, Clarence and Catherine.

Ella was born in 1876 and died in 1968. She's buried in Tangipahoa-Quinn Brown Cemetery in Tangipahoa Parish.