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Mallie Jordan Long - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Madison Journal, May 1952

Funeral Rites for Mrs. R. G. Long Held Tuesday Morning
 
Succumbs Sunday at Vicksburg Hospital Following Long Illness
 
Mrs. Mallie Jordan Long, beloved wife, mother, sister and daughter, passed away Sunday 
night, May fourth, just two years exactly after returning to her home on Banks 
Plantation, after an absence of twenty-five years.  Death occured in Mercy Hospital, 
Vicksburg, Miss.  Mrs. Long had been ill for two years, and her devoted family and friends 
are grieved at her going.  She was 46 years old and a native of Madison Parish, having 
been born on Banks Plantation, where she made her home for the last two years.
 
She was a graduate of Tallulah High School, All Saints College, Miss., and Louisiana 
Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, La.  After her graduation she taught school in Madison Parish
until her marrige to Robert Glenn Long in 1928.  After several years residence here, they 
moved to Chicago, Illinois, and later to New York City where Mr. Long was employed by 
American Air Lines.  
 
Mrs. Long was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a past president of the Presbyterian 
Auxiliary.  
 
Funeral services were held at the Tallulah Presbyterian Church at eleven o'clock Tuesday 
morning, with Rev. Lloyd O'Neal of Ruston, Home Mission Superintendent of the Red River 
Presbytery, officiating.  Interment followed in the Silver Cross Cemetery.
 
Mrs. Long is survived by her husband, R. G. Long, one daughter, Glenna L., her mother, Mrs.
Louise Graves Jordan; one sister, Mrs. Andrew L. Sevier; and three brothers,  Mr. Ben 
Jordan of Tallulah, Mr. George W. Jordan of Baton Rouge, and Mr. Francis Jordan of Pitkin, 
La.
 
Pallbearers were her three nephews, Andrew L. Sevier, Jr., Howard S. Sevier, and Warren J. 
Sevier, and her three cousins, W. P. Sevier, Barton Sevier and James Sevier.