Carrie Raymond Birch

courtesy of Dan - Find A Grave

Carrie Raymond Birch was the older sister of Howard from the previous post - the daughter of Russell Keeler Birch & Ella M Raymond.  

She married Harry Nathan DeLong, the son of Henry C DeLong & Mille Smalley in 1906. Like his father, Harry was a farmer.

They had 4 children - LeGrand Birch, Jeanette Helene, Olive Pauline, & Barbara June

  
Schenectady Gazette, Tues, 22 Jun 1948
Mrs Carrie DeLong Dies at Clifton Park
Ballston Spa - Mrs Carrie DeLong, 63, widow of Harry DeLong, died at her home in the Town of Clifton Park Friday night. She was born June 24, 1884, in the Town of Halfmoon and was a member of the Jonesville Methodist Church. Survivors are one son Legrand DeLong; three daughters, Mrs Harold Magnussen, Mrs Clifford Wind and Mrs Harry Christiance; two brothers, Howard S Birch and James Raymond Birch; four grandchildren, Julianne DeLong, Kathleen and David Christiance and Gary Wing. Funeral service will be conducted at 2:30 pm Tuesday from home. Rev Rowland Conklin, pastor of the Jonesville Methodist church will officiate, and burial will be in the Jonesville Cemetery. The home will be open Monday evening. 

Schenectady Gazette, Tues, 30 Jul 1935
Funeral services for Harry N De Long, 66, who died Sunday at Rexford after a long illness, will be Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his late home. Rev Lewis Henck of the Jonesville M E Church and Rev Fred Clarke of the Alplaus and Rexford Methodist churches will officiate. He was born in Ballston and for many years lived on a farm near Rexford. He was the son of the late Harry C De Long and Melissa Smalley De Long. The survivors are his wife, Mrs Carrie R B De Long, and three daughters, Jeanette, Pauline and Barbara De Long, and a son, LeGrand De Long, all of Rexford. A sister, Mrs Edna D Dyer lives in Saratoga.