Who is this Sarah Long? DE Death Certificate 183 Sarah E. Long, widow, no former spouse listed. Birth:20 Sep 1839 Death:7 Nov 1931 Age at Death: 91 Residence: Sussex, Delaware Father: Lettie (yes, that is what it says); Mother:Suffa Murray Informant is Parker Long (on 1870 census son of Stephen Lewis Long and Sarah. Stephen Lewis was son of Benjamin2 Long whose Bible listing his children I own. n.b., is "Lettie" really Lettie or is it Liddie, sometimes a nickname for Lydia? There were 3 Sarah Longs about the same age. 1. The first I think we can eliminate as the one on the DC. She was a child of Benjamin Long2 & Elizabeth "Betsy" Ake: 2nd child listed in his Bible b 27 June 1830. On the 1850 census she is not in Benjamin2's hh388 so she had either died or married. 2. A second Sarah Long was the wife of Stephen Lewis Long(3rd child listed in Benjamin Long's Bible, b 23 Nov 1832). DE Marriage record on Ancestry.com: m 18 Oct 1860 in Sussex. (The m record is just a list of marriages and gives no additional information.) This Sarah is believed to be dau of Elisha Long (of Zeno Sr. of Benj.1) & LYDIA(nee LONG). The 1850 census lists in hh414 of Elish & Lydia: Sarah age 11( b 1839) She was the sister of Zeno Pattey b 1835, Louisa b 1838 and Eber b 1842. [Elisha had a sister named Lettie (of Zeno Sr.) which is the name given for the father of Sarah on the DC.] The 1870 census lists children of Stephen L Long 37 & Sarah Long 30 as: Martimore Long 9, Parker J Long 7, Elizabeth Long 5, Eber Long 3, and Lecty P Long 1. 1800 and 1900 find Sarah with Stephen Lewis Long; he died in 1907. 1910-1830 she is Sarah E with dau Lecta in the hh. She seems to fit the DC until mother SUFFA MURRAY is considered. 3. There is another Sarah Long b abt 1830 thought to be the dau of Eber Long (of Benjamin1) d 1848 and SOPHIA MURRAY(of David). This Sarah m Thomas Stevens 1 Nov 1849 (Ancestry has marriage date and an earlier bond co-signed by Isaiah Long (probably Isaiah of Zeno1, brother of Elisha.) In the 1850 census Sarah & Thomas with Joseph age 1 are in hh of SOPHIA MURRAY. In 1860 they have their own hh and 4 children: William 10, Curtis 8, Joshua 6, John M 4; Joseph must have died. In 1870 neither Thomas nor Sarah are found but all their children, with the addition of Sarah age 8 and 1yr old Vicy, are in the hh of George Harrison and his wife Rhoda (nee Long of Joe of Benj.2). Sarah and Rhoda were cousins. From this I assume that both Thomas and Sarah d bet 1868-1870. So why is Suffa (Sophia) Murray listed as the mother of the Sarah Long d 1931? by her son Parker? Is it possible that he did not know which female Long was his grandmother? And what is meant by Lettie as the father of Sarah? Perhaps that information was supplied by undertaker? The DC seems to me to be for Sarah Long m Stephen Lewis Long whose parents were Elisha and Lydia Long. But am I missing something here?