The image is from a very small so-called Long family Cemetery at Selbyville, Delaware, Cemetery Rd & Rt 113.
My research has determined that the property where this cemetery is located once belonged to Benjamin Long, then to his son Joseph Long and then probably to his son Joshua P. who inherited some of his father Joe's land.
A stone for mother Elizabeth Long is in this plot. A stone for father Joshua P Long was found there by the so-called Hudson Survey taken between 1926-1930 (see Introduction to v4 of Tombstones...
Sources
↑ 1870 United States Federal Census, Baltimore Hundred, Sussex, Delaware (Elizabeth Long 48 (sic), Joshua P Long 47, Robert Long 21, Sarah Long 18, Orrina Long 13, Leander Long 9, Robert Campbell 82) ; Roll: M593_122; Page: 401A; Image: 27; Family History Library Film: 545621, [database on-line]. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
↑ Tombstones of Sussex County Delaware, Downstate Delaware Genealogical Society, Dover (DE), 2013, v4, p13.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to John Long for starting this profile. Adopted by Marj Adams.
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