Elizabeth Sophrona "Bertha" Long

Biography

Elizabeth Sophrona "Bertha" (Alloway) Long was born on February 22, 1888 in Darlington, Charles Mix County, South Dakota, United States. Her parents were Benton Dudley Alloway and Mary Augusta (Dutton) Alloway.

Elizabeth married Rev. Elmer Phillip Howery on December 24, 1904 in Stanton, NE, United States. Together they had the following children: Margaret Evelyn (Howery) Belknap; Dudley Hamilton Howery, Sr; Mary Howery; Kenneth Elmer Howery; Wilma Syphronia (Howery) Hardy; Charlotte Howery; Warren Phillip Howery.

Elizabeth married Evi Emberson Long on September 14, 1929 in Greeley, CO, United States. Together they had the following children: Carrol Howery Long.

Elizabeth married Edward David Wolking on September 8, 1938 in Greeley, CO, United States.

She died on December 12, 1963 in Greeley, Weld County, Colorado, United States and was buried on December 16, 1963 in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Obituary

Mrs Bertha Long, 75, of 431 8th St., died Thursday morning at Weld County Hospital.

She was born Feb. 22, 1888, in a sod house in Darlington, Charles Mix County, South Dakota, the daughter of a South Dakota pioneer family and one of 13 children. Her family later left for Kansas in covered wagons but only made it as far as Norfolk, Neb., where they settled on a farm six miles east of the town.

Bertha Alloway was married to Elmer Howery at Stanton, Neb., in 1904 and seven children were born to them, four of whom are living. Howery was killed in a tractor accident in 1922. In 1924, she was married to Evi Long and he left Nebraska for Colorado in search of work. The family arrived later by car, Sept. 6, 1929, and settled in Greeley. They had one son. Long died April 16, 1936.

Mrs. Long was a member of the First Church of God.

Survivors include five children, Carrol H. Long, who is a policeman with the Greeley Police Department, Mrs. Margaret Belknap, also of Greeley, Dudley H. Howery of Laramie, Wyo., Mrs. Wilma Hardy of Carpenter, Wyo., and Warren P. Howery of Golden; a brother Roy Alloway of Dallas, S.D.; 19 grandchildren; and 23 great grandchildren.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday from Adamson Memorial Chapel with interment at Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Chronology

• Residence: Age: 12; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter, Union Creek, Stanton, Nebraska, USA - 1900
• Residence: ED 179 Union Creek & Dimick Precincts, Stanton, Nebraska, United States - 1900
• Residence: Age: 22; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Precinct 6, Rio Grande, Colorado, USA - 1910
• Residence: Precinct 6, , Colorado - 1910
• Census: 1920 -  Platte, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: Humphrey, Platte, Nebraska, United States - 1920
• Residence: Age: 31; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Humphrey, Platte, Nebraska, USA - 1920
• Residence: Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Humphrey, Platte, Nebraska, USA - 1920
• Residence: Fremont, Nebraska, USA - 1923
• Residence: Fremont, Nebraska, USA - 1925
• Census: 1930 -  Greeley, Weld, Colorado, USA
• Residence: Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Greeley, Weld, Colorado, USA - 1930
• Residence: Greeley, Weld, Colorado - 1935
• Residence: Age: 52; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head, Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States - Apr 1 1940

Sources

• Greeley Tribune, Greeley, Colorado, Friday, Dec. 13, 1963
• Findagrave.com, Bertha Long
• Updated from MyHeritage Match by SmartCopy: Sep 21 2014, 5:06:11 UTC
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Dec 26 2017, 4:04:29 UTC