WASHINGTON CO, AR - GEORGE WASHINGTON LANKFORD - Bio Submitted by: Bebe [arctic@inland.net ] ====================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. ====================================================================== GEORGE WASHINGTON LANKFORD George Washington Lankford was born September 10, 1842, in Dickson County, TN, and died October 8, 1936, at Weddington, Washington County, Arkansas. He was a son of Moses and Catherine (Cooper) Lankford. George married on February 22, 1864, in Tennessee, to Julia Ann Anglin. George was 22 years old at the time and was "wearing the "gray" and fighting for the southern cause under General Robert E. Lee. He served four years in the 29th Regiment from Tennessee, enlisting as a private on December 10, 1861, at Fort Donelson, in Company D, 49th Infantry, Confederate Army. He was captured when General Grant took Fort Donelson at Corinth Mississippi, on February 16, 1862, and spent seven months in the hospital in Illinois after his capture. George and Julia met when she was fetching a bucket of water at a spring and he came down the hill. When Julia first saw George, she reportedly said "there's my man." They rode horseback to their wedding ceremony and celebrated 72 years of marriage. ======================================================================