Flora Angeline (Reeves) Long (1896 - 1984)

Born 14 May 1896 in Cedar Creek, Taney, Missouri

Ancestors

Wife of Jesse Edmond Long — married 15 Feb 1922 (to 1 Mar 1950) in Briartown, Muskogee, Oklahoma

Descendants

Died 3 Sep 1984 at age 88 in Porum, Muskogee, Oklahoma

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Biography

Flora was born in 1896. Flora Reeves ... She passed away in 1984. ^[1]

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1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Jerrie Hall Hall, Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.

STICKY LEAVE A COMMENT EDIT My Remarkable Mother I would like to share some things with you about my mother. I never knew any of my grandmothers and my mother lived enough in her eighty-eight years for several lifetimes. She was a strong woman. Few would have the strength to go through as much as she did and remain the loving, honorable woman that she was. My mother married young not yet eighteen years of age. After three years. One child, and one on the way her life was torn apart. She lost her husband, her young daughter and her father, within the same week, her husband and child on the same day. Less than a year later, she lost her mother and a baby brother. To keep her younger brothers and sisters out of an orphanage, she stayed on the farm to raise them. For five years, she did this alone until she and my dad married. My dad brought three children to the marriage, plus her one and all the brothers and sisters. She loved all of them, as she began bearing children in this union. All through the depression years they fed this brood by deversifying. She took a pig to town for a down payment on a refrigerator. Amazingly, they took it! This allowed her to sell butter eggs and cold milk to the coal miners as they came home from work. No one else in our area had a refrigerator. She canned way over a thousand jars of fruit and vegetables and some meat. Many of these jars were gallon jars. Later she would take in boarders as additional income. Not a lot extra, as everyone we knew was struggling. My dad was sickly and spent several months a year with his married children, where the climate was better for his health. Mom was the bread winner of the family. I never heard one word of resentment from her for having all the children. In fact, two more children came to live with our family because they had a need. She sent nine school lunches out of our home every school day back then. She watched over every one of the extras and the six children she had with my father. She knew what every one of us were doing, and if we strayed, she knew what to do. Throughout all this my mother taught us work ethic, family loyalty, honesty, integrity and many more things. During it all, she gave us love. That was my mother, deserving to be both Mom and Grandmother to me.

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