{"id":1861,"date":"2014-07-30T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T02:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne2\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2014-07-30T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T02:22:19","slug":"long-ralph-newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/long-ralph-newt\/","title":{"rendered":"Long, Ralph &#8220;Newt&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LONG, Ralph &#8220;Newt&#8221;<\/strong>, was born 9 February 1896 on Forty Eight Mile Creek. He was the son of Sylvester LONG, born April 1865 and Emily KEETON, who was born 7 Oct 1866, and died 1946, buried Keeton Cemetery. His siblings were Louis T., b. April 1893, William D., b. Jan 1898; Taylor, born 11 April 1893, d. 2 Nov 1967, buried Greenwood Cemetery, Waynesboro, TN.; Ada LONG FLIPPO; and Pearl LONG KOLTHOFF.<\/p>\n<p>He was inducted in 1918 and discharged in 1918. He served as a cook in the Officer&#8217;s Mess in Arkansas. He married Martha Ann IRVIN on 26 Dec 1920. They had three children: Robert Garland LONG, deceased; Grover Curtis LONG; and Nadine LONG. Newt LONG died in Wayne County Nursing Home, Waynesboro, Tennessee on 20 April 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. LONG had five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Grover&#8217;s children are Ann MULFORD and Kaye SMITH of Jacksonville, FL; and Peggy MILLS of Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONG, Ralph &#8220;Newt&#8221;, was born 9 February 1896 on Forty Eight Mile Creek. He was the son of Sylvester LONG, born April 1865 and Emily KEETON, who was born 7 Oct 1866, and died 1946, buried Keeton Cemetery. His siblings were Louis T., b. April 1893, William D., b. Jan 1898; Taylor, born 11 April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteranbiography","tag-long"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}