Ellen Call Long, eldest daughter of former territorial Governor Richard Keith Call, died in Tallahassee on this date. Born in 1825 in Tallahassee to Mary Letitia Kirkman Call and Richard K. Call, she split her childhood between her family’s plantation in Tallahassee and the Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage Plantation in Tennessee. Ellen married lawyer Maricus Long in 1844 and had two children who survived into adulthood. By 1851, her father had deeded his plantation in Tallahassee, known as The Grove, to Ellen and her growing family. Richard K. Call died at The Grove in 1862 and Ellen, who loved her father tremendously, spent the rest of her life trying to preserve her father’s memory and wrote prolifically about her memories of “the old south.” She remained a prominent figure in Tallahassee society as evidenced by her funeral ceremony which was attended by both the current and former Governor.
