Laura A LANGLEY

Other Events:

• Obituary: 27 May 1907, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; San Antonio Light

Notes:

Obituary:

Mrs. Laura A. Cook, residing at 523 Crosby street, died at 5:30 o'clock this morning of blood poison resulting from severe burns received recently by her dress catching fire while at her home. Deceased was thirty-seven years old.
Mrs. Cook was the wife of George A. Cook, a railroad engineer, and leaves besides her husband, a mother, Mrs. Josephine Fuller, two sisters and a brother. She was a member of the Baptist church, also a member of the Adah Chapter, Eastern Star and Maccadoos societies.
The funeral takes place at 3:30 o'clock from the late home. The remains will be entered in the Anchor Lodge cemetery.

Thomas married Josephine A GUEST on 11 Mar 1869 in , Bexar, Texas, USA. Josephine (daughter of Barton GUEST and Elizabeth PORTER) was born on 28 Mar 1850 in , , Mississippi, USA; died on 14 Jun 1928 in Asherton, Dimmit, Texas, USA; was buried on 15 Jun 1928 in Asherton, Dimmit, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 9 Jun 1880, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; ED 12, pg 29 (52A)
• death certificate: 15 Jun 1928; Mrs Ethel Fuller of Asherton

Notes:

Census:

Eliza Wuest Self F 50 South Carolina
Josephine Langley Dau F 30 Mississippi
Laura Langley G-dau F 10 Texas
Lilly Langley G-dau F 8 Texas

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• Census: 1850, , Lafayette, Mississippi, USA; pg 530 (266A) d/f #560
• Property: Abt 1852, , Atascosa, Texas, USA; James R Langley L/S 49.5 Abs 1428
• Residence: 1854-1857, *Benton City, Atascosa, Texas, USA

Notes:

From Hara Pue:
"I received a family group sheet with James Riley Langley's father as James Langley b. Mar.23,1762 at Elizabeth City, Hampton Co., Va. and his death 1868 at Chambers Co. AL. It seems unlikely he lived to 106. Later found references that he DID live to 106. 1850 Census MS Lafayette Co. #265."

Census:

Jas R Langley 39 South Carolina
Eliza Langley 29 Alabama
Marion J Langley 11 Alabama
Laura A Langley 9 Mississippi
Seaburne Langley 7 Mississippi
Malvina Langley 6 Mississippi
Jasper N Langley 4 Mississippi
Thos Langley 2 Mississippi

Property:
The Langley Abstract is at the southwest corner of State Highway 173 and FM 1333.
Mrs Z Langley L/S 34.5 Abs 1417

Atascosa Co, Property Records
James R Langley J.R. Langley 49.5 1428
Mrs Z Langley 34.5 1417

James married Elizabeth HUMPHREYS on 28 Dec 1837 in , Chambers, Alabama, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph J HUMPHREYS and Sarah Jane JONES) was born in Oct 1820 in , Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA; died on 30 Jun 1903 in , Frio, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Eliza Humphries
• Census: 22 Jun 1870, , Atascosa, Texas, USA; pg 16 (181A), d/f #119/119
• Census: 7 Jun 1880, , Frio, Texas, USA; ED 59, pg 12 (615D)
• Census: 14 Jun 1900, , Atascosa, Texas, USA; ED 5, pg 7A

Notes:

or born 10/18/1818 in Chambers Co, Alabama (Pue, Hara)

From Hara Pue:
"Listed on 1870 census of Atascosa Co. Somerset P.O.
Listed on 1880 census of Frio Co. as "Letitia" Pearce as James Langley's mother. In 1900, she is listed in Atascosa census living with daughter and son in law Amanda and Horace Pittman in Atascosa Co. TX."

Census:
Precinct 2, Somerset PO
PEARCE, Eliza 49 AL 500/3000
LANGLEY, Seaborn 26 MS
Jasper 22 MS
Amanda 16 TX
Paralie 14 TX
James R 12 TX
Next to F S W Randle

Census:
Precinct 1 or 2
James Langley Self M 21 Texas
Lutitia Pearce Mother F 55 Texas
James is a stock raiser.

Census:
Precinct 3
Horace M Pittman Head M 56 Oct 1843 Arkansas m. 10 yrs.
Amanda Pittman Wife F 46 Jun 1853 Texas 7/7 children
Lee Pittman Dau F 23 Jan 1877 Texas
Thomas W Pittman Son M 19 Nov 1880 Texas
David Pittman Son M 15 Dec 1884 Texas
Hester Pittman Dau F 9 Feb 1891 Texas
Allen W Pittman Son M 6 Jul 1893 Texas
Lesley H Pittman Son M 2 Jan 1898 Texas
Eliza Langley M-in-l F 79 Oct 1820 Alabama

Notes:

Married:
Married by John R Humphries, MG.

Barton married Elizabeth PORTER. Elizabeth was born in 1830 in , , South Carolina, USA; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Eliza Porter
• Census: 1880, , Bexar, Texas, USA

Notes:

1880 Bexar Co, Texas Census, San Antonio, page 52
Wuest, Eliza head 50 SC SC SC
Langley, Josephine dau 30 MS GA SC
Laura grdau 10 TX MS MS
Lilly grdau 8 TX MS MS

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• Military: Abt 1776, , Orange, North Carolina, USA
• Census: 1830, , Pike, Georgia, USA; pg 123
• Pension: 1833, , , Alabama, USA
• Census: 1840, , Chambers, Alabama, USA; pg 89-90
• Census: 1841, , Chambers, Alabama, USA; pg 149
• Census: 18 Nov 1850, , Chambers, Alabama, USA; pg 782 (391B), d/f #116/116

Notes:

This probably a second marriage for James since he was over 40 when they married.

From Hara Safford Pue:
"Most of the info for the first two generations comes from Jim N. Langley III, PO Box 135, Pasadena, MD 21123, e-mail
Info below is copied from letter from Jim N. Langley III.
Mt. Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Hwy 431 Stroud, AL. Stroud, AL is a very tiny town that still has Langley kin there today. It is just over the line from GA in the central eastern border (right over from Troup Co.) not far from Opelika and Auburn, AL.
(James Riley Langley) was born in GA, not far from the SC border. Right over the border in SC is a town named Langley, and was the site of a cotton mill and a gin mill.

Rev. War Patriot. Pension #S31813
Came to Elbert Co. GA from SC. While in Troup Co., James Sr. lost land in a court case and his property was sold by the sheriff in 1827. Lot 31-6th district. James Gray of Pike Co. bought the land at auction. In Sept. 1839, our Jas. Sr. bought back the same land for $470.68. In Oct. 1839, he sold the land to Horatio S. Whitfield for $1,721.25. As a boy, the family moved to Orange Co. NC (which later was split into Caswell Co.) 1780, lived in Orange Co. lived in High Hills of Santee, SC. Richmond Co., GA 1805 Land Lottery awarded land in new Baldwin Co. 1806 Baldwin Co. married Elizabeth Bandy (this was a remarriage #??.) Putnam Co. GA census lived in Troup Co. 1833 (applied for pension here) thru 1839. 1840 and 1850 census of Chambers Co. Alabama A possible brother John Langley, 1756-1850, died in Troup Co. GA. James most likely had another set of children, but who knows. When he remarried in 1806 he was 40+yrs. old. James bought land in AL Jan. 17, 1837, patent #6163-76 35/100 acres. Jr. or Sr.? Was a Revolutionary War Veteran."

LANGLEY, JAMES, aged 80, resided in Chambers County, June 1, 1840. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.
In 1840 James Langley stated he was 80 years of age In his pension record he stated he was under Col. William Davidson He died in 1853 Chambers County.
Private James Langley, NC Militia, Revolutionary War. 1762-1868 (105/6 years old!?) Buried Mount Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, near Stroud, Chambers County, Alabama.

Military:
Col Wm Davis, American Revolution. See the newspaper article.

Census:

male
1 10-14 [1816-1820] William
2 15-19 [1811-1815] James & ?
1 60-69 [1761-1770] James
female
1 0-4 [1824-1830] Elizabeth?
1 10-14 [1816-1820] Bathia?
1 15-19 [1811-1815] Eliza
1 40-49 [1781-1790] Elizabeth

Pension:
$46.66 per year

Census:

male
1 15-19 [1821-1825] John
2 20-29 [1811-1820] James, William
1 70-79 [1861-1870] James
female
1 10-14 [1826-1830] Elizabeth?
1 15-19 [1821-1825] Bethia

Census:
Census of Pensioners, State of Alabama, Southern District.
Resided in Chambers County on 1 Jun 1840.
James Langley, age 80, head of house is James Langley.

Census:
District 19 & a half
James Langly Male 88 Virginia
John Langly Male 27 Georgia
Frances Langly Female 16 Georgia
William Langly Male 33 Georgia
Mary Langly Female 18 Georgia
Bathia Langly Female 29 Georgia
Elizabeth Langly Female 19 Georgia
James is a Revolutionary and the young men are farmers. The 4s, 8s and 9s on this census are hard to distinguish, making the ages difficult. James is worth either $4500, $8500 or $9500.

James married Elizabeth BANDY on 11 Nov 1806 in , Baldwin, Georgia, USA. Elizabeth was born about 1786; died before 1841. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

No one knows what became of Elizabeth. Depending on which records you reference, she either died in Georgia, or she died just after they moved to Alabama.

Other Events:

• Religion: Primitive Baptist
• Property: 1822, , Marion, Alabama, USA
• Residence: Between 1836 and 1837, , Chambers, Alabama, USA
• Tax List: 1841, , Harrison, Texas, USA; Harrison Land District
• Residence: 24 Dec 1851, Martindale, Caldwell, Texas, USA
• Tax List: 1852, , Caldwell, Texas, USA

Notes:

Moved from Mississippi to Texas with the Jennings Family. Owned a large home which sat high on a bluff overlooking the falls of the San Marcos River below Martindale. The home burned. They brought 10 of 11 children with them to Texas.

HUMPHREYS CEMETERY
Members of the Jennings and Humphreys families settled in the Martindale area in the 1850s. They established a cemetery on land bought by Joseph Humphreys in 1855. Set aside on this raised area, the burial ground initially served family members who had settled the 2,000 acres adjoining the site.
Randolph Reed Jennings (d. 1854), who reportedly died of yellow fever on his way to Martindale, was the first buried here, and the grave marker of Agnes Jennings (d. 1869) bears the earliest birth year, 1783. Joseph Humphreys (d. 1864) was the first buried in the Humphreys family plot, denoted by two obelisks. Tradition holds that a number of unmarked graves belong to former slaves of the pioneer families. Notable burials include the graves of early settler Jemima Crunk (1799-1876) and George H Martindale (1842-1892), son of the community's founder.
Today, families and descendants of those buried here meet regularly and maintain the cemetery, which was enlarged in 1946. This burial ground, a link to the area's early settlers, remains a symbol of Martindale and its rich history.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2003

Joe and Sallie are ancestors of my children.
I found many records with the alternate spelling HUMPHRIES but none with UMPHRESS OR UMFRESS.

(Research):Chambers Co, Alabama Marriages
Allen John B. Susan L. Humphries 10/17/1869
Humphries Lou Ann William F. Fuller 4/24/1859
Martha Clark Wilson 5/28/1835
Susan L. John B. Allen 10/17/1869
Humphries, Alfred Amanda Smith 1/8/1846

Joseph married Sarah Jane JONES on 24 Dec 1816 in Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, USA. Sarah was born on 18 Feb 1799 in *Athens, Jackson, Georgia, USA; died on 1 Apr 1889 in Martindale, Caldwell, Texas, USA; was buried on 2 Apr 1889 in Martindale, Caldwell, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, , Caldwell, Texas, USA; pg 38 (295A), d/f #268/269
• Census: 1880, , Caldwell, Texas, USA; ED 29, pg 40 (279D)

Notes:

Census:
Lockhart PO
Sarah Humphreys F 71 Georgia
Jesse L Humphreys M 30 Alabama
Maria Johnson F 40 North Carolina (Servant)
There is a black Jones family living next to them.

Census:
Precinct 3
J L Humphrey Self M 42 Mississippi
Eliza T Humphrey Wife F 32 Mississippi
Lula Humphrey Dau F 6 Texas
Elloe Humphrey Dau F 4 Texas
Pearl Humphrey Dau F 1 Texas
Sarah Humphrey Mother F 81 Alabama