BIBB COUNTY GA Bios Langford family File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by don_langford@email.msn.com Don Langford http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/bibb/bios/langford.txt LANGFORD FAMILY THE FAMILY OF JOHN AND WINNIFRED LANGFORD OF NEWBERRY COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA AND THEIR DESCENDANTS (This genealogical record was gathered from research by Jenny Disque, Miriam M. Brown, Joseph Maddox, Charles E. Langford and Don H. Langford.) JOHN LANGFORD DOB UNKNOWN. BELIEVED TO HAVE COME FROM MARYLAND. MARRIED WINNIFRED LNU LANGFORD. THE LANGFORDS WERE EARLY SETTLERS OF NEWBERRY COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. THE FAMILY LIVED ALONG BUFFALO CREEK. TAKEN FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA MAGAZINE OF ANCESTRAL RESEARCH, VOL. XII, NO. 1, WINTER, 1984, ABSTRACTS OF LEXINGTON DISTRICT WILLS. RECORDED IN THE NEWBERRY COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, COURTHOUSE RECORDS, PAGES 382-383, IS THE FOLLOWING WILL: "THE WILL OF JOHN LANGFORD, DECEASED, DATE JUNE 16, 1791, PROVEDN FEBURARY 29, 1796. WIFE WINNIFRED - BALANCE OF ESTATE AFTER SHARES TO THE CHILDREN. CHILDREN: (1) WILIAM - TO HAVE ONE HALF OF LAND WHEREON I LIVE ON WEST SIDE OF BUFFALO CREEK AND STOCK. (2) JACOB - TO HAVE ONE HALF OF LAND WHEREON I LIVE - HIS SHARE LYING ON EAST SIDE OF BUFFALO CREEK. (3) ANNE - TO HAVE CERTAIN PROPERTY AND 200 ACRES ADJ. CARTER'S LAND. (4) MY GRANDSON ASA LANGFORD - ONE SHILLING STERLING. EXRS: WIFE WINNIFRED AND SON WILLIAM. WIT: JACOB FREE, JOSEPH COTTON, JACOB LANGFORD." WILLIAM LANGFORD, SON OF JOHN AND WINNIFRED LANGFORD, MARRIED SARAH JORDAN IN NEWBERRY COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. THEIR CHILDREN WERE: WILLIAM LANGFORD, BORN CA 1789-1800, NEWBERRY CO., S.C.; AMY LANGFORD, 1788, NEWBERRY CO., S.C.; MARY LANGFORD. AMY LANGFORD MARRIED JOHN EDWARD LESTER CA 1805. MARY LANGFORD MARRIED DANIEL MORGAN. WILLIAM LANGFORD MARRIED 1ST. A WOMAN THAT DIED EARLY IN THEIR MARRIAGE. THE COUPLE WERE ABLE TO START A FAMILY. THEIR CHILDREN WERE JOHN LANGFORD, ELIZABETH LANGFORD, AND ETHELRED LANGFORD. EACH BORN IN NEWBERRY CO., S.C. WILLIAM LANGFORD, SON OF WILLIAM AND SARAH JORDAN LANGFORD, LEFT NEWBERRY CO., S.C., AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FIRST WIFE. HE MOVED TO BIBB CO., GEORGIA. HIS CHILDREN BY HIS FIRST MARRIAGE CAME WITH WILLIAM LANGFORD TO LIVE IN BIBB CO. IN EARLY MARRIAGES OF GEORGIA - WILINSON COUNTY, BY MADDOX, WE FIND THAT ETHELRED LANGFORD MARRIED ELIZABETH RAY ON 5JAN1846. IN THE 1850 FED CENSUS FOR BIBB CO., GA., YOU WILL FIND A JOHN LANGFORD, AGE 32 AND ELIZABETH LANGFORD, AGE 22. THESE ARE POSSIBLY THE CHILDREN OF WM. LANGFORD AND HIS FIRST WIFE. WILLIAM MET AND MARRIED A MARY PERDUE OF BIBB CO. THEY ARE RECORDED IN BIBB CO. MARRIAGE RECORDS AS HAVING MARRIED ON DECEMBER 30, 1832. WILLIAM AND MARY LANGFORD HAD FIVE CHILDREN: JAMES M., 22OCT1837, FRANCES ANGELINE, MARCH 26, 1841, WILLIAM, 1843, TIMOTHY AND FRANKLIN, 23AUG1846. IN THE 1850 FED CENSUS FOR BIBB CO., GA., WM. AND MARY LANGFORD ARE LISTED WITH THEIR CHILDREN: JAMES, ANGELINE, WILLIAM, TIMOTHY, AND FRANKLIN. WILLIAM IS RECORDED AS BEING 50 YEARS OF AGE AND FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. IN THE 1860 FED CENSUS FOR BIBB CO., GA., MARY LANGFORD IS NOW HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD. LIVING WITH HER ARE CHILDREN WILLIAM, AGE 18, THE TWINS TIMOTHY AND FRANKLIN, AGE 14. JAMES M. LANGFORD MARRIED SUSAN D. CARR 3DEC1857, WILKINSON CO., GA. FRANCES A. LANGFORD MARRIED ROBERT I. CARR 19DEC1858. THIS WILL EXPLAIN THEIR NOT BEING RECORDED WITH THE FAMILY. IN THE 1860 FED CENSUS FOR BURKE CO., GA., JAMES M. LANGFORD, AGE 22 AND SUSAN D. LANGFORD, AGE 19 ARE RECORDED ON LINE 132, BLOODWORTH DIST., MCINTYRE, GA. IN THE SAME CENSUS ON LINE 134 IS ROBERT CARR, AGE 21 AND FRANCES CARR, AGE 19. WILLIAM LANGFORD WAS A PRIVATE SERVING WITH CO. B. 14TH GEORGIA REGMT., THE RAMAH GUARDS, A.O.N.V., C.S.A. ARMY. HE DIED IN HOSPITAL, DUE TO COMPLICATIONS OF TYPHOID FEVER, IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM LANGFORD, MARY LANGFORD, HIS WIDOWED MOTHER REQUESTED HIS PERSONAL EFFECTS. SAME WAS SENT TO HER VIA MCINTYRE STATION #16, CRR, GA. A COPY OF HER OATH VERIFYING THAT SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF WILLIAM LANGFORD IS ON FILE IN THE WILKINSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE, IRWTON, GA. THE OATH WAS SIGNED BY JUDGE C.H.P. RAWLS, OF WILKINSON CO., GA., ITEMS OF ONE HAVERSACK AND $81.00 IN CASH WERE SENT VIA SOUTHERN EXPRESS CO. NO RECORD IS FOUND OF TIMOTHY LANGFORD. FRANKLIN LANGFORD MARRIED EMMELINE TEMPLES IN WILKINSON CO., GA. FRANKLIN DIED ON 22MAR1903. HE IS BURIED IN DAVIS-TEMPLES CEMETERY, NEAR MCINTYRE, GA. IN A GRAVE, WITHOUT I.D., NEXT TO FRANKLIN AND HIS DAUGHTERS SUSIE AND WINNIE, IT IS THOUGHT TO BE THAT OF EMMELINE TEMPLES LANGFORD. AS EMMELINE LANGFORD MARRIED JESSE ARRINGTON AFTER THE DEATH OF FRANKLIN; IT IS NOT KNOWN JUST WHERE SHE IS BURIED. FRANKLIN AND EMMELINE LANGFORD HAD FOUR CHILDREN. TWO DAUGHTERS, SUSIE AND WINNIE DIED AS VERY YOUNG GIRLS. THOMAS IRVING LANGFORD WAS BORN ON 23AUG1871. OSCAR SEYMOUR WAS BORN IN 1885. THOMAS IRVING LANGFORD MARRIED EMMA ROZAR MOORE ON OCT. 17, 1895, WILKINSON CO., GA. THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN: JAMES OTTO, MAR. 1908, WILLIAM CARLTON LANGFORD, 10JUL1898, THOMAS IRVING LANGFORD, JR., 10DEC1903, ETHAL LORENE. WILLIAM CARLTON LANGFORD MARRIED 1ST. BESSIE PEARL REYNOLDS; 2ND MAIME THOMPSON; 3RD ELLA MAE EDWARDS. CHILDREN BY BESSIE PEARL REYNOLDS WERE ROBERT MELVIN, DORIS, AND WILLIE PEARL. CHILDREN BY MAIMI THOMPSON WERE WILLIAM CARLTON LANGFORD, JR. CHILDREN BY ELLA MAE EDWARDS WERE CHARLES EUGENE, AND COLLEEN MAE. EACH OF THESE FOLKS ARE LIVING TODAY AND HAVE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN! WILLIAM CARLTON AND ELLA MAE EDWARDS LANGFORD ARE BURIED IN MACON MEMORIAL CEMETERY, MACON, GA. ETHEL LORENE AND HER HUSBAND WILIAM BROWN ARE BURIED IN MACON MEMORIAL CEMETERY, MACON, GA. JAMES OTTO AND THOMAS IRVING, JR. ARE BURIED IN THE MCINTYRE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY WITH THEIR MOTHER EMMA ROZAR MOORE LANGFORD. ======================== 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. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ==============