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This is a picture that was taken in 1956 at Chicago White Sox Park of Sandy Dalton, me, and Fritz Miller before the White Sox game that we attended as part of a Logansport Little League train trip. It was the last time that the Logansport Little League went to Chicago. The next year they spent their money constructing Crain Field in Fairview Park.
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You can see a lot more information and pictures on my Facebook Page. Just go to www.facebook.com and enter "Dave Long" to get to my page.
They Started It All
This is a picture of Nola and John Long, who are responsible for bringing all of the Long children, grandchildren etc., to Logansport. Family stories say that they are from Bulls Gap, Tennessee. They had 13 children, and were married very young. Somehow they were encouraged to move to Delphi, In., and began raising their family there.
Apparently a couple of their sons were pretty decent basketball players, and old-time Logansport basketball coach, Cliff Wells, enticed them to move to Logansport so that their sons could play for the Berries. That's probably why John was given a job as a custodian at Logansport High School with main responsibilities in the old Berry Bowl.
In any case, their family fanned out across the country with marriages and job opportunities, and it's been hard to keep track of what happend to all of them.
John and Nola lived on 12th Street between George and Spear for several years, and Nola lived later on East Market Street on the alley on the south side between 20th and 21st Streets.
My dad and mom both worked at the old RBM Manufacturing plant, and that's probably where they met. They had eight children, and we all lived at 1804 Smead St., where my mother and youngest sister still live. My mother will be 95 in September. She's already outlived three of her children, Abbie, Joel and Dennis, who all made an impact on the community in their own individual way.
Anyhow, the Longs are distributed throughout Indiana and this country, and records have been very hard to keep. The family tree, what we know if it, is included on this web site along with the family tree of the Berndt family - my mother's side of the family. That's also a very interesting side of our overall family tree. A picture of my mother and father is included below. This picture was probably taken sometime shortly after they were married. My dad worked until his death at RBM. My mother worked at the RBM, took time off to raise eight children, and then after all of the kids were out of the house, she worked in the cafeteria at Logansport High School.
Apparently a couple of their sons were pretty decent basketball players, and old-time Logansport basketball coach, Cliff Wells, enticed them to move to Logansport so that their sons could play for the Berries. That's probably why John was given a job as a custodian at Logansport High School with main responsibilities in the old Berry Bowl.
In any case, their family fanned out across the country with marriages and job opportunities, and it's been hard to keep track of what happend to all of them.
John and Nola lived on 12th Street between George and Spear for several years, and Nola lived later on East Market Street on the alley on the south side between 20th and 21st Streets.
My dad and mom both worked at the old RBM Manufacturing plant, and that's probably where they met. They had eight children, and we all lived at 1804 Smead St., where my mother and youngest sister still live. My mother will be 95 in September. She's already outlived three of her children, Abbie, Joel and Dennis, who all made an impact on the community in their own individual way.
Anyhow, the Longs are distributed throughout Indiana and this country, and records have been very hard to keep. The family tree, what we know if it, is included on this web site along with the family tree of the Berndt family - my mother's side of the family. That's also a very interesting side of our overall family tree. A picture of my mother and father is included below. This picture was probably taken sometime shortly after they were married. My dad worked until his death at RBM. My mother worked at the RBM, took time off to raise eight children, and then after all of the kids were out of the house, she worked in the cafeteria at Logansport High School.