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Troy Arthur Langford

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Troy Arthur Langford

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1995 (aged 92–93)
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Gilmer, Upshur County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Shown with friend, Rev. Willie Steelman on photo to the right, Troy Arthur Langford is shown on the cannon in the battlefield in Vicksburg, Mississippi where his grandfather, Young Marion Langford, fought in defense of Vicksburg during the Civil War. Y.M. Langford was captured after the battle and paroled only to be captured again by the Yankees in the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee and spent the remainder of the war in a Maryland Yankee Prison only a short distance from where his great-grandfather arrived in the new world in Maryland. Troy Arthur Langford was the son of Philip Pender Langford (1872-1938) and Lela Alice Williams Langford (1880-1964) and married Dorcas E. Bullock (1907-1964) in Upshur Co., Texas and their children were Ruth Genevah Langford (1924–1924), Private W. H. Langford (1925–1944), killed in action in WWII in France, Infant Son Langford (1927–1927), Vennie Louise Langford (1929–), Martha L Langford (1932–1933), Shirley Ann Langford (1935–1941), and Melba Daisy Langford (1939–1939). Mr. Langford was active in the Nazarene Church and was a long-time song-leader in the church at Johnson Chapel and Gilmer. He was a farmer most of his life.
Shown with friend, Rev. Willie Steelman on photo to the right, Troy Arthur Langford is shown on the cannon in the battlefield in Vicksburg, Mississippi where his grandfather, Young Marion Langford, fought in defense of Vicksburg during the Civil War. Y.M. Langford was captured after the battle and paroled only to be captured again by the Yankees in the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee and spent the remainder of the war in a Maryland Yankee Prison only a short distance from where his great-grandfather arrived in the new world in Maryland. Troy Arthur Langford was the son of Philip Pender Langford (1872-1938) and Lela Alice Williams Langford (1880-1964) and married Dorcas E. Bullock (1907-1964) in Upshur Co., Texas and their children were Ruth Genevah Langford (1924–1924), Private W. H. Langford (1925–1944), killed in action in WWII in France, Infant Son Langford (1927–1927), Vennie Louise Langford (1929–), Martha L Langford (1932–1933), Shirley Ann Langford (1935–1941), and Melba Daisy Langford (1939–1939). Mr. Langford was active in the Nazarene Church and was a long-time song-leader in the church at Johnson Chapel and Gilmer. He was a farmer most of his life.

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