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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
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removed to Tennessee, where they remained a year
and then again came to Texas. The subject of this
notice, Mr. James B. Langham, then a youth sixteen
years of age, left the family at San Augustine
and went to Montgomery County, where he worked
on a farm for eighteen months, receiving $20.00
per month for his services and taking horses for his
pay. He drove these horses to Beaumont and left
them, with the exception of one that he retained as
a saddle animal, with an uncle living at Grigsby's
Bluff.
He married Miss Sarah Jane Nettles, daughter of
James Nettles, of Jefferson County, Texas, MayT. D. Brooks, proceeded with it to a spot situated
near where the city of Dallas is now situated and
there erected a fort. He was with the company
something over three months.
At the breaking out of the war between the
States, being physically unable for active service in
the Confederate army, he promptly joined the
militia for home protection and was stationed at
Sabine Pass immediately after the capture of the
( Morning Light."
After his marriage Mr. Langham farmed two
years, then moved to Village Creek with his family
and remained there a year, then moved to Leoni ;
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I:IJAMES BIDDLE LANGHAM.
15, 1845, and settled about two miles from Beaumont
on a tract of one hundred acres of land,
inherited by them from his wife's father, and
opened up a farm on it. They have had nine children,
seven of whom are living, viz.: Thomas, now
Sheriff of Jefferson County, an office that he has
held for nineteen years; William, City Marshal of
Beaumont; Lizzie, wife of Frank Wilson, of Harrisburg,
Texas; Biddle, a farmer of Orange County,
Texas; Victoria, wife of Charles Wakefield, of
Beaumont; Annie, who died August 20, 1882, at
the age of twenty-two years; Nora, wife of Alex.
Broussard, of Beaumont; Cora, wife of Richard
Garrett, of Beaumont, and one child who died in
infancy.
At an early day Mr. Langham joined, at Nacogdoches,
a ranger company, commanded by Capt.County, and stayed there a year, then moved to Newton
County, where he rented land and farmed one
year and then moved back to the house in which he
was married in Jefferson County, where all of his
children were born except two. Here he again
went to farming, at the time owning two negroes.
At the beginning of the late war he owned fourteen
slaves, and had acquired three leagues of valuable
land. In April, 1891, Mr. Langham was hurt by a
horse, which caught him by the coat collar and
jerked him backward, breaking his hip. When he
came to Beaumont he endured all of the hardships
incident to a pioneer life in Texas. He has provided
a home for all of his children. He is one of
the well-to-do men of the town. His wife died
February 12, 1875, and is buried in the family
cemetery at the old homestead.
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