Jefferson Franklin Long (1836-1901) was born enslaved in Crawford County, Georgia, and became a successful merchant-tailor in Macon, Georgia. He married Lucinda Carhart (1845-1919), and they had five children, including Annie Eunice (1865-1933). In 1870, Long became the first African American elected to represent Georgia in the United States Congress during Reconstruction. He is buried in Macon, Georgia, at Linwood Cemetery. Annie Eunice Long attended Scotia Seminary in Concord, North Carolina, and married Henry Allen Rucker (1852-1924).

Henry Rucker was born enslaved to the King family of Athens, Georgia. Following the Civil War, he opened a barber shop on Decatur Street in Atlanta. Rucker attended Storrs Night School and Atlanta University Academy. In the 1870s, he served in Jackson McHenry’s Black militia company. He also taught in Atlanta Public Schools before becoming a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in 1880. He served as a clerk in the Internal Revenue Services collector’s office in Atlanta between 1880-1885 and 1889-1893. In 1896, President William McKinley (1843-1901) appointed him Collector of Internal Revenue Service for the District of Georgia; he was the only African American to receive such an appointment. He served in the position until 1910. Rucker was active in the Niagara Movement and the NAACP.

Annie and Henry Rucker had eight children: Henry Jr. (1891-1931), Elizabeth "Bessie" (1890-1931), Lucy Lorene (1894-1992), Jefferson (1896-1983), India "Neddie" (1897-1972), Hazel (1899-1882), Alice (1901-1988), and Ann L. (1907-1977). The family resided on Piedmont Avenue. Bessie Rucker attended Fisk University and in 1916 married Dr. John Wesley Davis (1888-1980), later President of West Virginia State College. They had two daughters, Constance "Dit" (1917-1970) and Dorothy "Dot" Long (1919-2006).

Ann Rucker attended Atlanta University and Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia. She served as a librarian at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Auburn Avenue branch of the Carnegie Library in Atlanta. In 1939 she married Charles W. Anderson Jr. (1905-?) of Louisville, Kentucky.

In 1920, Lucy Rucker married Walter Henry “Chief” Aiken (1893-1965). Aiken, born in Dover, Delaware, attended Hampton Institute, and worked as a football coach at Fisk University and at Atlanta University and Clark College. In addition, Aiken was an architect and engineer whose Atlanta projects include West Lake Court Apartments, the women’s dormitory at Morris Brown College, residences in the Hunter Street-Washington Park subdivision, the Waluhaje Hotel and Apartments, along with other subdivisions, residences, and facilities.