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Submitted: 11/11/13 • Approved: 6/26/19 • Last Updated: 6/28/19 • R949434-G949434-S3
JI
CSA
Company D 4th Arizona-Texas Cavalry
Civil War Confederate
March 14, 1841 - July 22, 1928
Elizabeth
July 30, 1841 - July 1, 1938
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Thursday, July 7, 1938
LANGSTON, Elizabeth MEISENHIMER – Mrs. James Langston, Shut Out From World 15 Years, Expires At 96 – Ninety-six year-old Mrs. Elizabeth Meisenhimer Langston, shut out from the world for the past 15 years, died at the farm home of her daughter, Mrs. M.J. Pullen, six miles east of Rogers on White River, at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon after an illness of only a few hours.
Mrs. Langston, widow of James Langston, Confederate soldier and pioneer Benton County farmer, was an aged blind-and-deaf invalid. She lost her sight and hearing 15 years ago. She would have been 97 her next birthday 30 days away.
Mrs. Langston was born in Johnson County, Illinois July 30, 1841. She had lived in Benton County for 60 years. Her husband died on the old farm place 16 years ago. She was a member of the First Christian Church at Rogers.
Funeral service will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Burns Funeral Home with W.B. Ragsdale, minister of the Church of Christ here, officiating. Burial will be in the Rogers Cemetery.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Pullen and Miss Maggie Langston, both of the farm home, and Mrs. P.U. Lough, wife of a Bentonville policeman, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Benton County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge
Contributed on 11/11/13 by wfield55
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