Continuing with the pension file of Silas James Langford/Lankford, the next form was a questionnaire dated 26 April 1902. No.1 Are you a married man and if so please state your wife’s full name and her maiden name. Answer: Yes, Emily Langford, maiden Hunter. No.2 When, where and by whom were you married? Answer: 15 [...]
It could have taken up to six months for me to get it, but it didn’t! Last week while I was away, I received the full pension file–Civil War–of Silas James Lankford! And, it is CHOCK FULL of information. Over the next few days, I will detail the info given in this pension file. It [...]
My latest family sleuthing has been centered on Silas James Lankford/Langford and his wife Nancy Susan McKinnis Lankford/Langford and Silas James’ father, Henry Lankford. In my last entry I was pondering whether Silas James was still married to my great-great-great grandmother when he married for the second and third time in Dickson County, Tennessee, in [...]