""Lafe" told his granddaughter Helen Long that he knew little of hisan cestors, but said he was one of a family of 21 children with nofull bl ood brothers or sisters -- only halves and steps. He knew hewas born n ear Crab Orchard, Kentucky, that one of his Longhalf-brothers was Andr ew, and that his mother had died when he was 8years old. He knew his f ather Elisha very well since he grew up withhim and his step-mother Lu cinda in Clark County, Illinois, along withhis step-brother and two st ep-sisters. He also knew that there hadbeen a long wagon train when he w as small enough to play under thewagons."
