Keturah Garrison Langley 1910 Will +E.Harris+Christy+Creamer+Jaggers+Dunham+Zip.Jones+Kigar
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Keturah Garrison Langley 1910 Will +E.Harris+Christy+Creamer+Jaggers+Dunham+Zip.Jones+Kigar
| D. Langley Solberg (View posts) | Posted: 28 Dec 2001 9:06PM GMT |
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Surnames: Langley, Garrison
The 1910 Will of Keturah Garrison Langley (widow of Rev. Richard Langley) mentions living children George B. and Mary E. (Langley) Christy of Millville; Joel G. of Newfield; Sarah G. (Langley) Haines of Los Angeles; and Mina (Langley) Collins of Camden. It also mentions granddaughters Ella Kigar of Palentine (Palatine?) and Alma Ward of Centerton (daughters of the late Hannah Jane Langley Hitchner); plus granddaughters Stella Newkirk of Centerton and Lillian Duffield of Elmer. Their mother was Rebecca (Langley) Harris, wife of Ephraim.
Keturah lived to be 93, and willed to Willow Grove Methodist Church, what was considered a generous sum in 1910. In 1839 she married Rev. Richard Langley (1815-about 1887) and is buried with him at Willow Grove at an obelisk near the church. Richard and Keturah's son, Joel G., was a long-time Lay Leader at Willow Grove and is also buried there with wife Sarah (Sally) Creamer and many other kin.
Their other son, George B., headed the building committee for Second Methodist in Millville in the 1890s, where his own son E. Lee later became a major donor. To this day, a college scholarship and building renovations fund still flourish there from E.Lee's benevolence. E.Lee is buried at Mount Pleasant's "Washington monument" (which bears no name except Langley) but I have not yet learned where George B. is.
Rev. Richard had founded the Langley Mill in Millville, then passed its management to George. George collaterally developed the popular White Lily Flour, was a partner in a Philadelphia-based corporation, and opened a major feed store in Millville. The names of Richard, George, E.Lee and his sister J. Bertha (Rafftery) are all memorialized on stainglassed windows at Second Methodist.
Rev. Richard Langley was the son of John Langley (1778-1838) and Hannah Jaggers, who married in 1803. Hannah was likely also married before that, because John’s Will refers to a daughter of Hannah named Zipporah Jones. According to Willow Grove cemetery records, both a Jaggers child and a Marian or Mariah Dunham are buried near Hannah. Some Richmans (McKendree, Mathias, et al) and Kandles (two Adams, et al) are buried nearby.
Historian C.E. Sheppard indicates that Keturah was the daughter of Arthur Garrison (1779 –1868) and Hannah Cornwell, whom he married in 1802. I believe the family was Presbyterian.
Since I saw Hannah Garrison buried next to John Langley, and knew Keturah’s mother was a Hannah, I thought for months that this was Keturah’s mother and Richard’s father, lovingly placed near their respective children. However, at the Gloucester County Historical Society is an 1840 marriage statistic for Hannah Langley and Arthur “Garretson.†I am certain this should instead read, “Garrison,†as it says on Hannah’s tombstone. This means that Keturah’s widowed father and Richard’s widowed mother, married late in life. Hannah then lived only until 1847, but according to C.E. Sheppard, Arthur went on to nearly age 90.
Keturah lived to be 93, and willed to Willow Grove Methodist Church, what was considered a generous sum in 1910. In 1839 she married Rev. Richard Langley (1815-about 1887) and is buried with him at Willow Grove at an obelisk near the church. Richard and Keturah's son, Joel G., was a long-time Lay Leader at Willow Grove and is also buried there with wife Sarah (Sally) Creamer and many other kin.
Their other son, George B., headed the building committee for Second Methodist in Millville in the 1890s, where his own son E. Lee later became a major donor. To this day, a college scholarship and building renovations fund still flourish there from E.Lee's benevolence. E.Lee is buried at Mount Pleasant's "Washington monument" (which bears no name except Langley) but I have not yet learned where George B. is.
Rev. Richard had founded the Langley Mill in Millville, then passed its management to George. George collaterally developed the popular White Lily Flour, was a partner in a Philadelphia-based corporation, and opened a major feed store in Millville. The names of Richard, George, E.Lee and his sister J. Bertha (Rafftery) are all memorialized on stainglassed windows at Second Methodist.
Rev. Richard Langley was the son of John Langley (1778-1838) and Hannah Jaggers, who married in 1803. Hannah was likely also married before that, because John’s Will refers to a daughter of Hannah named Zipporah Jones. According to Willow Grove cemetery records, both a Jaggers child and a Marian or Mariah Dunham are buried near Hannah. Some Richmans (McKendree, Mathias, et al) and Kandles (two Adams, et al) are buried nearby.
Historian C.E. Sheppard indicates that Keturah was the daughter of Arthur Garrison (1779 –1868) and Hannah Cornwell, whom he married in 1802. I believe the family was Presbyterian.
Since I saw Hannah Garrison buried next to John Langley, and knew Keturah’s mother was a Hannah, I thought for months that this was Keturah’s mother and Richard’s father, lovingly placed near their respective children. However, at the Gloucester County Historical Society is an 1840 marriage statistic for Hannah Langley and Arthur “Garretson.†I am certain this should instead read, “Garrison,†as it says on Hannah’s tombstone. This means that Keturah’s widowed father and Richard’s widowed mother, married late in life. Hannah then lived only until 1847, but according to C.E. Sheppard, Arthur went on to nearly age 90.