Hi Coleen, Champ LANGFORD was born November 26, 1833. He would have been 20 when he married. Elizabeth was born about 1836 (according to the U. S. census). So she would have been about 17 or 18. Champ's father died the month before he was born. He was raised by his mother, Elizabeth LANGFORD, and Elizabeth's father, Robert REED. Robert died January 16, 1842 (Champ was 8). According to the family bible, Champ's mother died January 24, 1854 (about 2 weeks before his marriage). Champ's Confederate pension application says he served from August 12, 1861 to the Spring of 1865. The doctor's report said: He was shot in the posterior portion of the left leg, the ball ranging downward. A considerable portion of flesh and a part of the fibula were destroyed. (The fibula is in the calf of the leg. His wound would make walking very painful.) The report also said the extent of his disability was almost total. (He must have been living with someone in Arkansas.) But I didn't know where Champ was when he was wounded, what his rank was, Elizabeth's middle name, Elizabeth's father's name (all I had was R. I. and C. P. HAGOOD). Thank you. I'd appreciate any other information you may have about Champ, Elizabeth, their children or Elizabeth's family. Do you need any information I have about Champ, Elizabeth, their children or Champ's parents? (Champ's 2 oldest daughters dies 3 days apart -- 10/18 and 10/21/1864. Do you know how they died? Or what happened to their other children?) Bill Allen <misterbill@pdq.net> "Dale W. Colgrove" wrote: > The Ganrud books of Alabama Records has.....Lankford, Champ to Elizabeth > Hagood, 4 February 1854 (executed 7th) by G. H. Cole, J. P. at the house of > R. J. Hagood, George S. Shotwell, Security. "Please isue licens for Champ > Lankford to Elizabeth Jane Haygood to get married. Oblige Yours, " Curtis > G. Beason, guardian for Champ Lankford. "I do hereby gave my consent for > you to grant a marriage between my daughter Elizabeth and Champ Lankford, > Yours, R (obert) J. Hagood." February 4, 1854. > G. H. Cole was my g-grandfather, George Hampton Cole, who was a Justice of > the Peace at Pinson (formerly Mount Pinson, Hagood's Crossroads before that) > in Jefferson Co., AL. > From the "Civil War Records of Jefferson Co., AL" by Marilyn Davis > Barefield, on page 12, under "Membership, Co. C., 19th Alabama Volunteers, > C. S. A." there is a listing of soldiers "Compiled by W. F. Hanby, 41 years > after the first Roll Call ( was August 11, 1861) of his Company, and > presented to his surviving comrades as a token of his Love and Esteem." > Champ Lankford, 3rd Sgt. Wounded near Chattanooga, TN. Served through war. > Is roaming out West. > I do not have these books, just copies of a few pages. I hope this will > be of some assistance. > Coleen