I have to think about this for a second. I know it's not my direct maternal line or it's offshoots: my Great-Grandmother Ruby Waters Huyler does not have a headstone. Other lines have much older headstones, but have missing generations in between. Some have memorial markers, but not actual gravestones. So, what's the longest line?
It's a tie! Both my Albea and Powell (via Craft) lines have graves with known locations and markers. Both lines go back to my 5x Great-Grandparents. On the Albea line, that's Thomas Albea who was born in 1778 and died in 1844. On the Powell line, that William R Powell who was born in 1772 and died in 1847.
I visited the graves of all but one of these ancestors. Wiley Powell died in Virginia during the Civil War and was buried at a veterans cemetery there. A FindAGrave volunteer kindly sent me a photo.
Roy Albea
(and Betty Huyler) 
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Thomas Craft
(and Sarah Britt) 
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C Vernon Albea
(& Auline Witt Albea Wilson)
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BE Craft (and Ruth Evans) 
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William Albea (& Nina Sprouse) 
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Effie Powell (and G "Bob"Craft) 
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Thomas Albea  |
John Powell (and Emma Taylor)  |
Tilman Albea (and Julia Glaze)  |
Wiley Powell (and Mariah Adkins) 
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Thomas Albea
(and Rachel Johnson)
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William R Powell
(and Sarah Franklin)
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