LANG:

Arthur Wellington Lang, of Tanners Run on the Spencer and Ripley turnpike, was born in Harrison County, in the year 1841, son of Henderson and Mary (Ferris) Lang; enlisted and served as a soldier of the Confederacy, in the 14th Regiment, Virginia Calvary, and was one of the picked three hundred assigned to General Albert G. Jenkins for his famous raid from Virginia into Ohio where horses were commandeered for the Confederate cavalry; and on which raid General Jenkins captured Buckhannon, Weston, Glenville, and Spencer, Ripley and Ravens- wood. Mr. Lang "rather liked" Spencer and after that war, returned to Harrison County and there married Margaret Teter. Of this marriage two sons were born: Homer and Arthur W., Jr. With these and the wife, Arthur W. Lang came to Roane County, purchased the farm on Tanners Run, in the year 1901, lives there yet, :hale and hearty, though now (1926) in his eighty-sixth year of age. He frequently walks to town since the old turnpike is now concrete-surfaced from town to where it passes his door.

Homer Lang, of the above family, is not married; Arthur, Jr., married. Miss Sallie J. Goff, Feb. 25, 1910; he then 26, she 26.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 579
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999