E. Langfitt  Biography   Hancock County, WV
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Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.


                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:

E. Langfitt:
    was born in 1814 near Fairview, then Brooke County, Virginia.  His 
grandfather, with four of his brothers, fought in the engagement at the 
mouth of Big Kanawha River, at Point Pleasant, October 17, 1774, under 
General Lewis, who was attacked by Indians.  He, out of the five, was the 
only one that escaped.  Four fell, pierced with bullets.  Our subject's 
father was a soldier in the war of 1812.  He located the tract of land which 
Ebenezer, his son now owns, in 1813.  He migrated from Beaver County, Pa. 
and lived on this land following farming until he approximated the declivity 
of life.  His death occurred on the 7th day of February, 1856, at the age of 
seventy-six years.  Our subject took charge of the old homestead.  He 
grasped the plow left in the furrow by his progenitor, and continued tilling 
and breaking up the fallow ground ever since.  In the year 1835, he married 
Miss Mary, daughter of Colonel John McMillan.  They have a family of four 
boys and three daughters, all of whom are still living.