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Perry D. Langford

23 Oct 1860 – 28 Dec 1886

Birth23 Oct 1860
Death28 Dec 1886
CemeteryCenter City Cemetery
Center City , Mills County , Texas , USA
Added byRose Lee Head on 20 Apr 2016
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100175689

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26 years old. PARENTS: Asa Langford 1820 – 1907 Rebecca Ann Morris 1840 – 1932 Perry lived during a tumultous time in lawless Hamilton & Mills County, where several "Mobs" were formed in many counties, over the new large landowners coming in and putting up barbed wire fences, which were being cut by small cattlemen so they could get their cattle to water as they always had. This is an excerpt from a Hamilton County historical book: On Sunday evening, 30 May, 1882, James Henry "Jim" Jones was shot as he was going to the mountain to turn his horses into the pasture while his wife was on the front porch churning and holding their eight-month-old-son, William Charles Jones. Perry Langford and Ves Howard ambushed Jim and shot him from behind. They were tried for the Jones' murder in Coryell County. Howard was not convicted, but Perry Langford was convicted, sent to prison, and released only shortly before his (Perry's) death. Until Perry and Ves were arrested, they with the Langford mob, continued to harass the family. All of the family--Pernina Jane "Nina" Coker Jones and her baby son, William Clift Winters, Harrett Garner (Jones) Winters, James Lemuel Grisham, Sr. and Margaret Amanda Jones Grisham, Martha Ann Jones Snider and Joseph Evans "Joe" Snider fortified the the Winter's house in which they stayed. At night they slept on the floor and stayed out of the moonlight lest the mob kill them also. Members of the mob would shoot through the windows aiming at their beds. The mob also would beat on the walls with whips. According to Grisham legend, Perry Langford had an intense desire to kill any of Jim Jones' relatives.

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