On 9 September 1862 R. Webster Long enlisted at Shelburne, Massachusetts as a private in Company A, Massachusetts 52nd Infantry Regiment. He muster out on 14 August 1863 at Camp Miller, Greenfield, Massachusetts. On 15 December 1863 they were married. In 1870 he is 32 and lives with his wife’s parents in Ward 4, Worcester, Massachusetts. He works in a boot and shoe store with his father in law Noah Moody. Noah's wife, Sophia, age 52, keeps house. There are no Noah Moody children living there. His wife Phila A. Long, 29, and children Minnie, 4, and William, 2, all born in Massachusetts, live with them. 230 Phila died in 1879.

Noah died in 1894 and Sophia in 1895. In 1888, 1889 and 1890 Noah Moody is still listed as a bootmaker with his store at 14 Front and 16 Front and residence at the rear of 25 William in Worcester, Massachusetts in the Worcester city directories.938 Does Webster Long carry on this business?

On 1 June 1850 she is a 6 years old living with her parents at the home of her aunt Phila in Columbus, Georgia. 885She lives with her parents and grandmother in Greenfield, Massachusetts in the 1860 census.936 In 1864 she married Webster Long.