Harriet Malinda (Pratt) Long (1818 - 1850)

Born 24 Apr 1818 in Connecticut, USA

Ancestors

Died 2 Jul 1850 at age 32 in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Biography

No.713 in Frederick William Chapman. The Pratt Family. Case, Lockwood and Co. (Hartford: 1864).

“Harriet M. Pratt, daughter of Julius and Lydia Pratt, born April 24, 1818, was married to Rev. Walter R. Long, September 13, 1832, by whom she had five children. Mr. Long was born in Cambridge, Washington county, State of New York, January 16, 1811. His father was Edward Long, the son of Edward Long, who was born in New Hampshire and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His mother’s name previous to marriage, was Prudence Wells, a descendent of Timothy Wells, the patriarch of the Wells family of Connecticut. His grandmother Long, was sister to the late James Comstock, deceased, of Uncasville, Conn., and related to the Comstocks who fell on Groton Heights. Mr. Long graduated at Union College in the class of 1832, persued his theological studies at Andover, Mass., in 1834, and in Princeton, N.J., in 1835-6, and had labored as a minister of the gospel in Princeton, N.J., in 1835-6, and has labored as a minister of the gospel in Woodbridge, Conn., West Troy, Troy, and Whitesboro, N.Y., St. Louis, Missouri, and in Mystic Bridge, and Montville, Conn. Mrs. Harriet M. Long died at Meriden, at the residence of her father, July 2, 1850.”

Issue: Walter P, Julius P, Edward, Frederick, Harriet.

Sources

• Source: S4 "FamilySearch," database, FamilySearch   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: (http://new.familysearch.org)

• Frederick William Chapman. The Pratt Family. Case, Lockwood and Co. (Hartford: 1864).