James LONG

                   Family group sheet at the church archives.

Luke Syhpus Temple Book shows his temple work done by Luke Syphus, a nephew.
                  

                   Family group sheet at the church archives.
                  

                   Family group sheet at the church archives.

Luke Syphus Temple Book: Her work is listed as being done twice.  I took the earliest dates.

Note: check IGI baptism 22 Aug 1930  endowment 6 aug 1930.
                  

                   Family group sheet at the church archives.

Temple data from the Luke Syphus Temple Book.
                  

                   Family group sheet at the church archives.
                  

                   Data from the Family Group Sheet at the Family History Library.
Record Submitter: William Keity Clark
                           1160 Idaho Avenue
                           Idaho Falls, Idaho  83401

Marriage certificate of Christiana Long shows her to be a minor child of John Long, a lawyer living in the county of Middlesex, London, England.  She was married in the St. Pancras Church, in the parish of St. Pancras.  They were Luke Syphus and Christiana Long were married Dec. 25, 1851 in the presence of John Long and Sarah Wildman (her name is hard to read).  They had posted banns three weeks earlier.  Jphn Long and Luke Syphus obht lived on Lewis Stree in St. Pancras, the northern part of London, Middlesex Co., England.  It may be that Luke was an apprentice of John Long.

Letter Dated July 24, 1857, from Levi Long to Luke and Christina Syphus:
92 Grove Street
Camden Town, London
My Dear Brother and Sister,
     It is with a heart profoundly penetrated with grief that I address this letter to you.  The contents of which are fraught with tidings of the bitterest sorrow and of most extreme grief inasmuch as they announce the death of our poor father.  Yes, death that grim and unrelenting tyrant, that Universal Conqueror, hath laid his irresistible and iron grasp upon him.  He died on the 23rd of
February 1857, in the University College Hospital of brain paralysis.  The first symptoms of the malady began to manifest themselves in the May of 1856 as him and me was walking down in the city looking for work.  His speech was suddenly effected so that he could not articulate his words, neither could he remember what he was about to utter but wandered into something else and from that to something else to utter confusion.  At the same time he felt oppressed with a very faint and languid feeling.  So much so that his limbs almost refused to bear him home. After getting ome and resting a day or two, his speech was perfectly restored and he felt comparatively well.  Still that resolute energy had left him and he feld low-spirited and weak at times.  Still we worked on an on together wherever we could get a job, till at length, after a few months, he was attacked with a similar but much more powerful stroke which affected his sight and speech and limbs to a considerable degree and gave rather a curious expression to his features.
     After a few days he showed sighs of recovery.  But what he wanted and what had wanted from the first attack was plenty of nourishing food, rest and a change of air all of which, alas, his low and indigent circumstances denied him and what indiscribable pain it gave Amelia and myself to think that we was not in a position to give him what he required.  But what we could do we did do and
that is the only consolation left us. Recovering from his second attack, we worked together and put out seven houses.  It was in midsummer, under the scorching rays of a July sun which must sorely have effected his poor brain but there was no alternative.  His circumstances goaded him on.  O, with what feelings of deep grief did I witness his untiring efforts to keep himself up an to earn a few shillings and how this did add to my grief to know that I could not help him.  After finishing the job and as time wore away all down the Autumn, father had nothing to do.  He was at homes sometimes a little better an then worse and not having enough nourishing food till about the latter end of November 1856 he had a little job home.  On it was tow pair of villas at Hollowery and the best he ever done.  After working a week or so he began to get very weak and to fel a dreadfull sensation of sickness and giddyness so that he was absolutely obliged to go home, every object in his vision appeared double o treble and he realed and stagered from one side of the road to the other as if drunk. I perfectly well remember the best peice that ever we put together.  After being at home two or three weeks he went into Kings College Hospital for he could not afford medical advice and treatment at home.  Neither was that what he wanted.  What he wanted as I once observed was plenty of good living and rest.  After being in the hospital a fortnight and be subjected to a great many examinations, the medical men could not tell what was the matter with him. Coming out of there he went to the University Cllege Hospital where he was sounded and examined by very skillfull men who soon found out the nature of his malady and treated him accordingly.  He was cupped three times at the back of the neck and afterwards the back of his head was shaved and blistered, which so effected him that he lay in a state of utter prostration and unconsiousness with little or no pain he lay in this way six days.  Being in the hospital but nine days before he died.  The first four days he could just verly whisper and would move his hand toward us in order that we might press it.  He would open his eyes for about a minute at a time and look at us with such and indefineable expression of tenderness and love and then doze off again for hours, as if in a state of stupor.  On the Sunday, the 2nd we gve up all hopes and on the 23rd we could see that the period of dissolution drew near.  He died upwards and the last few hours he laboured and his breast heaved with mighty convulcions.  A little whilt and the last low gurgling sound is heard and all is over--he is dead.  His chest was opened and his lungs and heart were perfectly sound and healthy.  It all lay in his brain.  We gave him a highly respectable funeral.  He lays in the cemetery at Fincheley, a little on the other side of Highgate.  We laid him in a very sequestered spot, down in a gently valley near to a littl grove or copse and I hope his immortal soul is at rest.  Thus I have shown you the end of a brave and valliant man.  I could not possibly give a better account of him illness and untimely death.
     Poor Uncle Soloman died just a fortnight after him of deseased lungs and kidneys and was burried at Hanwell.  He died on the 9 March 1857.  Uncle William died in 1854 of Cholera and Calib's brother Henery Long died on his voyage home from the Indias and poor Bulben the sawyer has lately died in Cuba of brain fever.
     Of the state of trade in this country, I shall simply say that it has never revived since the war broke out and that there is nothing whatsoever doing in this pool.  Of ourselves I can also say that we were never in such low circumstances since we have been married before as we are at the present time.  I hope you will answer this directly as I am firmly resolved to go to Australia
as soon as I can get a few things together to go with.
     I am very glad to hear that you are in good health both of you and also that you have a way of obtaining a good living.  All Mrs. Reynolds faily are alive and well.  Caleb Long was married to Fanny's sister on the 9th of December 1856 and that was the last bit of enjoyment that ever poor father had at their wedding.  He spent his last Christmas down at John Newman's.  John and Amelia
are quite well as also Fanny and myself and we all individually and collectively send our kind love to you and your family.
     I remain with the sincerest gratitude and highest respect, yours eternally,
Levi Long
(Levi Long came to America and died in Frisco, Utah, never going back for his family.)
                  

                   Family group sheet at the church archives.
                  

                   Note: check baptism 1872; endowment 1878.

Her Patriarchical Blessing has her date of birth as 1808.  Other family records has it as 1807. Dated 24, May 1875 so she died after that date.
Effie Syphus Family Group Sheet, in the Church Archives, has her birth date as Aug. 18, 1807.
Luke Syphus Temple Records Book has her birth date as 8 Aug. 1807.

Temple Records: Family File of Ellis Gentry - Ancestral File records gives her birth and death data.
We believe that her birth date is August 8, 1807.  We believe she was baptized 23 June 1874 in England before she came to America, by her son, Luke Syphus, who went on a mission to England in 1872.

Panaca Ward Record has her birth as August 8, 1807, England.
Micro-fiche M0374, North America, Utah has her name as Mary Ann with the sealing to her husband, Matthew Syphus, as being 9 Aug. 1861. Sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. (They did not come to America until 1874) another sealing to her husband is found in the Ellis Gentry Family Records: 20 July 1874.

She died in 1879 in Panaca, Lincoln County, Nevada.  A new grave stone was put on her grave in May 1991 with dates on it.
                  

                   Church Archives - Family Group Sheet of G. Fenton Whitney.
Sealing of the family done by: Paul C. Child
Witness': Emery E. Peterson; Keith Randall
Proxy for Husband: Ernest C. Earl
Proxy for Wife: Nellie M. Earl
Proxy for Children: Olive Gedge (for the girls) and James A. Hill (for the boys)
All done on 15 Aug 1972 - Salt Lake City, Utah for those done that date.

The Luke Syphus Temple Book has different dates of temple work.

All data from the Luke Syphus Temple Book.

Temple Index Card File - Bureau.

(James Grimm: The merged data had him married to 2 Mary Townsend's, the first marriage date was listed as About 1834 and the second marriage date listed as About 1840.  Also the first Mary Townsend's record had no data while the second did.  I assume he only married one Mary Townsend and the merged data was incorrect, so I removed the first Mary Townsend's record.  I also assumed the second marriage was correct since his first wife died in 1834.)