Young Marion Langford was born in Bibb County (later Marion Co.) Georgia, the son of James Langford II (1770-1854) and Candis Vinson Langford (1800-1840). The land his father's plantation was located switched often between new couties in Georgia and often was called "Old Switchback" as a result. He married Elizabeth Jane Nutt on 15 Dec 1854 which was the same year of the death of his father and atat the time of the death of his father he was the manager of his father's plantation and estate. After he sold the estate for his family he moved from Marion County, Ga. to Leake Co., Mississippi, where served in the Confederate Army in W. S. Parrott's 40th Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers Company H. He was captured in battle of the defense of Vicksburg and again in the battle of Nashville and sent to the notorious Point Pleasant Maryland Yankee POW prison until end of war. This coincidentally was only a few short miles from where his ancestors had originally lived after moving to the new world. After the Civil War had and yankees had devastated his farm in Mississippi he moved his family to Upshur County, Texas with his family and lived there the remainder of his life. His brother Francis Franklin (Frank) also made similar moves and was also the son of Candis Vinson Langford. He and Elizabeth had 9 children:
Oscar F Langford 1855–1860
Emma Victoria Langford 1857–1952
Young Marion C (Bud) Langford 1859–1889
James Rufus Langford 1861–1905
William F. Langford 1864–1910
Thomas F Langford 1867–1963
Desdemona A. Langford 1870–1888
Philip Pender Langford 1872–1938
Frances C. Langford 1876–1959

Young Marion Langford's burial site and that of the other Langfords is on the hillside above Little Mound Cburch which is the "old section" of the cemetery.

Biography by: Ron Wade