Wilkinson County Georgia Military CSA Death Pvt Wm Langford File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Don Langford" Table of Contents page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/wilkins.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm The Personal Effects of Pvt. William Langford of Wilkinson County, Georgia After being advised of her son’s death on November 14, 1862, in Richmond, Virginia, Mrs. Mary Langford, widow of William Langford of Bibb County, Georgia, requested that his personal effects be returned to her. She also inquired as to any pay that was due from the government. The request was granted and the items were returned to Mrs. Langford in McIntyre, Wilkinson County, Georgia. Private Langford served with Co. B, 14th Georgia Regiment, AONV, CSA, "The Raman Guards" of Wilkinson Co., Georgia Recorded is the content of Mrs. Langford’s affidavit, her letter to the Surgeon in Charge, and the doctor’s response as recorded in the Confederate Records, Hospital #16, Richmond, Virginia. _____________________________________________________________________________________ GEORGIA WILKINSON COUNTY Personally come before me Perry Rawels as Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the said County, Mary Langford Who being sworn deposeth and saith on oath that she is the Mother of William Langford, a soldier in Captain Kelly’s Company, of the Fourteenth Georgia Regiment, who died at General Hospital #16, at Richmond, Va., and she further states that her said son at the time he died had no wife or child or any other nearer of kin or entitled to receive his pay from the government than herself, and that she is entitled to receive the same. Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 2nd Day of December 1862 Mary (X) Langford (Her sign) //S// C.H.P. Rawels, JJC _______________________________________________________________________ To J. A. S. Milligan Surgeon R. Anson Clerk Hospital #16 Dear Sir I received your letter stating that my son was dead, a great and severe affliction to me. You will find enclosed papers to show that my son’s pay is coming to me, and that I was authorized to receive it. You do not state whether there is yet any of my son William Langford’s pay due from the government, but only that he left $81.00 and a haver sack. Please favor me so much as to ascertain if any of his pay is yet coming and get it, and send it with the $81.00 & haversack by express to MacIntyre Station No. 16 CRR Georgia and you with greatly oblige. Yours Respectfully //S// Mary Langford by I.C. Bowen _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Personal Effects of Private William Langford of Wilkinson County, Georgia _____________________________________________________________________________________ (Handwritten card from the files of Hospital #16, Richmond, Virginia) HOSPITAL #16 DEC. 11th 1862 Inasmuch as the effects of Private Wm. Langford of Captain Kelly’s Company, 14th GA VOLS, Deceased has not been transferred to the Quartermaster at the time of the receipt of the within papers, I have this day sent by the Southern Express Co. Eighty One Dollars being the whole amount of money in the possession of deceased at the time of his death -- To Mary Langford, the Mother, and nearest relative of the deceased. At the same time I sent the haversack of the deceased. DEC. 11th 1862 M. Cabret J.A. Milligan Surgeon in Charge Notes: Private William Langford was the son of William and Mary Perdue Langford of Bibb County, Georgia. He had four siblings: Rev. James M. Langford (Wife Susan D. Carr), Frances Angeline Langford (Husband Robert I. Carr), Timothy Langford, and Franklin P. Langford (Wife Emmeline Temples). William Langford moved from Newberry County, South Carolina, after the death of his first wife, Martha King. He brought his children, by this marriage, to live in Bibb County, Georgia. They were John Langford, Elizabeth Langford, and Ethelridge Langford. He married Mary Perdue in Bibb County on December 30, 1832. After William Langford’s death in Bibb County, Georgia, Mary and her children moved to Wilkinson County, Georgia. The Federal Census for 1860 list her and the children. Mary Langford was running a boarding house and her son, William, age 17, was a teamster. The descendants of this family continue to live in Bibb and Wilkinson Counties. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Submitted from research by Miriam M. Brown and Don H. 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