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From: "Jeri Fultz" <>
Subject: RE: [ARKANSAS] Jarvis Langford
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:50:38 -0500


Hi,

There is a Langston in the Goodspeeds for Izard Co. See below.

Jeri


Nathan J. Langston is one of the oldest native residents of Izard County,
and when his parents, Nathan and Patty (Weir) Langston, made their first
settlement in this region, Arkansas was a territory. They came here from
their native State of North Carolina in 1814, and Mr. Langston and Col.
Stewart erected the first mill in the county, he and four brothers being
the ones to build it. They carried the logs on their shoulders, and had the
mill completed in six days, and although it was a very rude construction,
and only ground about a bushel of corn a day, yet it was sufficient to
supply the demand, as the settlers at that day were very few. Nathan
Langston, Sr., was only connected with this mill for about six months, when
he turned his attention to farming, at which he was fairly successful, and
in early days he also carried the mail for twelve years from Mount Olive,
in Izard County, to Thomasville, Mo., a distance of 160 miles, there being
only four offices on the entire route. According to Mr. Langston the first
postoffice in this county was at North Fork, which was also the first
county seat. In 1838 it was moved to Calico Rock, afterward to Athens, at
the mouth of Piney Bayou, next to Mount Olive, and thence to Melbourne,
where it now is. When Mr. Langston first came to Arkansas Batesville
consisted of two pole cabins, and from Batesville to the mouth of the Big
North Fork there were only five families living on the east side of the
river. The west side was inhabited by the Indians, who were very numerous
at that time. The first year of his location Mr. Langston had to go to
Helena, Ark., for flour, and to Little Rock, Ark., to attend circuit court.
He died in 1870, at the age of seventy nine years. He was married twice,
and by his first wife became the father of sixteen children, and by his
last, three. Those living are Absalom, Thomas B. and Nathan J., whose name
heads this sketch. The latter was born in the year 1830, was reared to a
farm life, and at the early age of nineteen years was married to Miss
Rachel Adams, who died in 1856, leaving four children, three of whom are
living: Alex., Mary, wife of Johnson Holfora, and Matthew R. Mr. Langston
married his second wife in 1859, she being a Miss Lucy A. Churchill, and
five of their eleven children yet survive: Luvinia J., wife of James
Brothers; Dempsia M., Rebecca A., Acenith B, and Albert W. Mr. and Mrs.
Langston are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in his
political views he is a Democrat. He owns a good farm comprising 120 acres,
and has twenty-five acres under cultivation. Among his numerous
acquaintances and friends the respect shown him by them is in full keeping
with his well established reputation for honesty of purpose [p.957] and
hospitality. Mr. Langston remembers many interesting facts connected with
the early history of this county, which the limited nature of this volume
will not admit of insertion.



______________________________________________________
"but I remain your affectinate cosin untill death."
Thank you again ggrandpa Davis for those words.
Never dreamed I'd get to use em!
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Personal webpages: http://home.earthlink.net/~jerifultz/
Edward G. Gerdes Arkansas Civil War Pages
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Original Arkansas Genealogy Project:
http://www.couchgenweb.com/arkansas
Helms Brothers Parents research:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~helmsnc/


> [Original Message]
> From: Tree Mother <>
> To: <>
> Date: 4/12/2004 6:20:01 AM
> Subject: [ARKANSAS] Jarvis Langford
>
> Arkansas 1850 Census Every-name Index by Bobbie Jones McLane and Desmond
Walls Allen. Page 205
>
> Langford, Jarvis 72 [b.25 Jan. 1778, d. 20 Mar. 1859, s/o Frank Langford
- GDSS P. 849] [1840 census Dallas Co. AL; was War of 1812 pensioner, m.
1st Miss Bishop, m. 3rd Martha Withering - PJG, Mary [Christie b. 3 sep.
1826 d. 1882 d/o Jeremiah Christie - GDSS p. 849] 55, wm. c. 24, Jno. 21,
Mary J. 16, E. W. 15 MD/SC dwg 833, Franklin twp., Union Co.
>
> I will have to go back and find this book and look at what the
abbreviations, i.e. GDSS and PJG, which I assume are journals which our
library probably does not have.
>
> If someone has Ancestry access he may appear in PERSI and the names of
the journals should be listed on his entry.
>
> As the Allen Library has most of the material that they use to create
PERSI any article listed could be purchased from them at a small fortune.
> If anyone has access to Polk Journal of Genealogy and the GDSS(?) will
they do a look up and let the list know the content of the articles?
>
> A mighty group of Langford/Lankford migrated to Arkansas but we have not
had much information discussed about these families on the list.
>
> There are more Langford/Lankford entries in this work by McLane and Allen
and I will copy more of it to the list as time permits.
>
> Tree Mother
>
> "She is insane, of course. The family history has bcome a mania for her."
Hercule Poirot
>
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