GEORGE THOMAS LANGSTON
Is'the oldest of four children of the late Jacob and Cornelia (North-
cutt) Langston, and was born March 1st, 1830, in Bourbon county,
Ky. His father moved to Boone county Mo., in 1835 or 1836, and
settled on a firm about seven miles northeast of Columbia on the old
Columbia and St. Charles road, on Little Cedar creek. George was
educated at the country schools in the neighborhood and has always
lived upon the old place. In 1861, when the country was arming for
the great civil war, he espoused the cause of the South and went out
with the old State Guards from Boonville, in Shanks' regiment,
Company K. Was in the battles of Lone Jack and Independence.
Being sent by C ol. Thompson to gather up recruits that were in hiding
in the brush in the vicinity of his father's farm, he was captured by
Col. Frank Russell and Captain Williams and taken to St. Louis and
confined in prison for ten months, when he was tried as a spy and sen-
tenced to be shot. Wars under sentence of death for three months.
He was granted a new trial and was tried by a military commission
and sentenced to the military prison at Alton, Ill., at hard labor.
Was released ill the fall of 1864, after being in prison over a year.
He then came back to the farm and has lived at his present home ever
since. His is a good farm, containing 280 acres of good land, well
timbered and watered, the Little Cedar running through the place.
His father died February 20th, 1851, and his mother December 17th,
1878, at the age of 69. They are buried at Cedar Creek church,
Callaway county, Mo. Only himself and brother, James F., are living
of the children. Joseph W. was wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge,
in 1862, and died from the effects of the wound. Nancy H., his only
sister, died some time since. Our subject, George T., is a Mason, in
good standing in the lodge, and is regarded by all as an upright,
honest citizen. He deals almost exclusively in stock, only having
thirty acres ill cultivation for grain, all the rest in grass.
Source:
Title: History of Boone County, Missouri
Publication date: 1882
Collection: Missouriana Digital Text Collection; page 774-776
The Langston family is mentioned in The Journal of Henry Martyn
Cheavens, 1862-1863
Is'the oldest of four children of the late Jacob and Cornelia (North-
cutt) Langston, and was born March 1st, 1830, in Bourbon county,
Ky. His father moved to Boone county Mo., in 1835 or 1836, and
settled on a firm about seven miles northeast of Columbia on the old
Columbia and St. Charles road, on Little Cedar creek. George was
educated at the country schools in the neighborhood and has always
lived upon the old place. In 1861, when the country was arming for
the great civil war, he espoused the cause of the South and went out
with the old State Guards from Boonville, in Shanks' regiment,
Company K. Was in the battles of Lone Jack and Independence.
Being sent by C ol. Thompson to gather up recruits that were in hiding
in the brush in the vicinity of his father's farm, he was captured by
Col. Frank Russell and Captain Williams and taken to St. Louis and
confined in prison for ten months, when he was tried as a spy and sen-
tenced to be shot. Wars under sentence of death for three months.
He was granted a new trial and was tried by a military commission
and sentenced to the military prison at Alton, Ill., at hard labor.
Was released ill the fall of 1864, after being in prison over a year.
He then came back to the farm and has lived at his present home ever
since. His is a good farm, containing 280 acres of good land, well
timbered and watered, the Little Cedar running through the place.
His father died February 20th, 1851, and his mother December 17th,
1878, at the age of 69. They are buried at Cedar Creek church,
Callaway county, Mo. Only himself and brother, James F., are living
of the children. Joseph W. was wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge,
in 1862, and died from the effects of the wound. Nancy H., his only
sister, died some time since. Our subject, George T., is a Mason, in
good standing in the lodge, and is regarded by all as an upright,
honest citizen. He deals almost exclusively in stock, only having
thirty acres ill cultivation for grain, all the rest in grass.
Source:
Title: History of Boone County, Missouri
Publication date: 1882
Collection: Missouriana Digital Text Collection; page 774-776
The Langston family is mentioned in The Journal of Henry Martyn
Cheavens, 1862-1863
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