Eglintine Langley

Female, #32064, (6 Apr 1810 - 3 Apr 1878)

Birth*6 Apr 1810 Eglintine was born at South Carolina on 6 Apr 1810. Tombstone Apr 1810 but FG Culpepper Bible record had 'April 6 1804.' 
Marriage*13 Jan 1825 She married Francis Gillespie Culpepper on 13 Jan 1825. 
Married Name13 Jan 1825  As of 13 Jan 1825, her married name was Culpepper. 
1830 Census1 Jun 1830 Eglintine was probably a free white female, age 20 and under 30, in Francis Gillespie Culpepper's household, on the 1830 Census at Talbot Co., Georgia. The enumerator recorded 3 Females 0-5 and no Male children. We believe this was an error and should have been recorded as 3 Males 0-5..1 
1840 Census1 Jun 1840 Eglintine was probably a free white female, age 30 and under 40, in Francis Gillespie Culpepper's household, on the 1840 Census on 1 Jun 1840 at Chambers Co., Alabama.2 
1850 Census1 Jun 1850 Eglintine, William, Martha, James, Shadrach, Benjamin, Nancy, Sarah, Cynthia, Amanda, Mary, Susan and Selena listed as a household member living with Francis Gillespie Culpepper on the 1850 Census on 1 Jun 1850 at Lafayette Co., Mississippi.3 
1860 Census1 Jun 1860 Eglintine, Sarah, Amanda, Mary, Susan, Selena, Georgia and Shadrach listed as a household member living with Francis Gillespie Culpepper in the 1860 Census at Lavaca Co., Texas.4 
1870 Census1 Jun 1870 Eglintine, Shadrach, Amanda, Georgia, Daniel, Martha and Mary listed as a household member living with Francis Gillespie Culpepper on the 1870 Census at Lavaca Co., Texas.5 
Death*3 Apr 1878 She died at Lavaca Co., Texas, on 3 Apr 1878. From tombstone, but see 1880 census. 
Burial*circa 5 Apr 1878 Her body was interred circa 5 Apr 1878 at Mount Olive Cemetery, Lavaca Co., Texas. 
Biography* The "BIBLE FAMILY RECORD OF FRANCIS G. & EGLINTINE CULPEPPER" listed the following birth record: _________________________Eglintine Culpepper _________________________Born April 6 1804 Francis Gillespie was also born in 1804 but there is a question that this was Eglintine's year of birth. Based on an age of 50 in the 1860 census, an age of 60 in the 1870 census, Eglintine was probably born in 1810. However in the 1850 census, which is the earliest to record her by name, Eglintine was listed as being 38 years old, suggesting she was born in 1812.
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      There is a question about the parents of Eglintine Langley. Francis G. Culpepper's father, John Culpepper, was living next to a Josiah Langley in Edgefield District, SC and John sold land to Josiah in 1823.
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Mrs. Charley (Cleone Walker) Langley wrote of her Langley research in an 8 Jan 1979 letter: Josiah Langley lived in Edgecombe Co. No. Car. (1790). He had in his household some of his brothers and a sister (I think his brother was James Langley a Rev. War Soldier) and Josiah took care of his brothers and a sister after his parents died.
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By 1800, Josiah wasn't in No. Car. Census but we find him in Edgefield Dist. So. Car. with two males in his home over 26 yrs old. (He [Josiah] was possibly one and his brother David was the other one.)
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In the 1790 Census of Edgefield District So. Car. was an Isham Langley with four sons (I read that he left with his family and went to Kentucky or Tenn.) Isham may have been a brother to Josiah's father or some relative.
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By 1810 we find that David, the brother of Josiah had married and there was also a William Langley in the Census, married with a family of small children.
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An earlier account of the land records showed where an Osey Langley had received land from Josiah in 1798 and it was recorded in 1801. This Osey could have been Josiah's brother. He had to be 21 years old by 1798 in order to own property so he could have been born around 1776 or before. The 1800 or 1810 census didn't show an Osey Langley. He could have been living with another family or living in Geo. waiting for the Land Lottery.
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In the 1820 Census William has moved and only Josiah and David are listed.
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By 1822, David Langley leaves a will naming Josiah as his executor and as "My brother Josiah Langley." Among his children is one named Manning Langley....
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Monroe Co. Geo. was formulated in the 1821 Land Lottery of Geo. The marriage records of Monroe Co. Geo. show that Osey Langley married Sarah Hardy 8? Feb 1827. William and Isaac Langley also marry in the same period of time.
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Then I examined the Tax Digest. This is a list of those who have to pay a poll tax on their land. I found two William's, three Isaac's & two Osey Langley's.
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Then by 1830 William and his family and Osey and his family are in Talbot Co. GA.
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By 1828 Josiah Langley dies in Edgefield District So. Car. and names William Langley as his son.
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The Superior and Petite Courts (Talbot Co.) show that William, Osey, Hampton and Whitfield Langley served on their juries from 1830 to 1838.
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The 1830 Census shows that this William and his wife (also the 1840 Census) were born around 1775.
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By 1840 Osey has moved to Tallapoosa Co. Alabama and William and his family are living in Chambers Co. Ala. where James Langley the Rev. Soldier is now residing.
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By 1850 William and his family are gone, I don't know where [MS with FGC?] Osey is now living in Tuscaloosa Co. Ala. Whitfield and Isaac Langley are in Tallapoosa and Manning Langley the son of David is also there....
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In the 1860 census we find Osey still in Tuscaloosa Co. [&] Sarah Hardy Langley the wife of Osey... with his married children living close to each other. Among them is one Eli Langley age 94 and his wife Elizabeth also in the 90's. He said he was born in Geo. I have not been able to find this man in any previous censuses.... Then also there was a Charles R. Brittain with his wife Ann L. several children and a daughter Eglentine and at the end of a list of children was a woman age 77 born N. C. Mary A. Langley....
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[In] the 1870 census [of Tuscaloosa Co., AL]... the Brittain family is still there but Mary A. Langley is not listed.
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And this ends the notes from Mrs. Charley (Cleone Walker) Langley.
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Mrs. James L. (Vivian Hastings) Culpepper wrote 6 Jul 1979 that Eglintine was not mentioned in the will of either Jacob or David Langley.
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Mrs. Charley (Cleone Walker) Langley on a 2 July 1979 pedigree chart listed her husband as a descendant of Osey Langley who was born about 1807 in South Carolina and who married in 1827 in Monroe Co., GA. Mrs. Langley listed Osey's parents as William Langley ? and Mary A. Anglin.
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The John Culpepper family was also from South Carolina and has been shown in deed records to have been in Monroe Co., GA by 1827. In addition to the parallel moves of the two families, the name Mary Anglin is intesting. If this was Eglintine's mother is it possible that her name was meant to be Anglintine Langley?
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In a 22 Feb 1979 letter Mrs. Charley Langley gave her reasoning for thinking that William Langley was Osey Langley's (and potentially Eglintine's) father: Osey was with William when Osey married in Monroe Co. Geo....
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When Osey was born James [Langley] in his statement of where he lived and when was not in So. Car. and Osey was born in that State.... Wm was in So Car at that time....
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      A 60 year old "Egletine" was listed (p. 473 #873) in the 1870 Lavaca Co., TX census in the household of Frank Culpepper. Her place of birth was given as South Carolina.
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There was a reference to Eglentine in an article about her husband, Francis G. Culpepper, in the Shiner Gazette Lavaca Co., TX of Wednesday, 2 Feb 1898: In 1825 Mr. Culpepper was again married, this time to Miss Agaltine Langley, by whom he had sixteen children. His second marriage took place in Georgia, where he had removed in 1823.... His wife died in 1878 and he has since resided with his youngest daughter, Mrs. B. F. [Georgia Culpepper] Burke....
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      The "BIBLE FAMILY RECORD OF FRANCIS G. & EGLINTINE CULPEPPER" listed a death record for Eglintine: _________________________2nd Wife of _________________________F. G. Culpepper _________________________(Eglintine Culpepper) _________________________Departed this life _________________________April 3rd 1878.
      In addition, on a 30 Sep 1893 Indian War survivor pension application, Francis G. Culpepper swore that his wife had died "the 3rd day of April, A. D. 1878" and this statement was witnessed by their son J. T. J. Culpepper. The 2 Feb 1898 Shiner Gazette article about Francis Gillespie Culpepper also recorded his wife's death in 1878 and finally the 3 Apr 1878 date was recorded on the tombstone.
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The problem is that a 70 year "Eglentinie" was listed (pct 3 ED 79 p. 21 #150) with her husband and youngest daughter, Georgia, in the 1880 Lavaca Co., TX census. She was listed as having been born in South Carolina as were her parents. Mrs. T. D. (Patty Bennett) McGinty noted in a 25 Jul 1988 letter: I believe the stone mason goofed when he carved the stone and someone copied it into the Bible wrong or just the opposite but Eglantine definitely was alive in 1880 [recorded in 1880 census]. Ergo, her death date was probably 1887.
      Lynn C. Mauldin gave the death date as "April 3, 1888" but no source was cited. But it is hard to believe that the five sources, including two sworn statements, are all wrong about Eglintine's death. One possibility is that since census takers were paid by the head, the census taker might have known the family well enough to add one to his head count. Another possibility is that there was a misunderstanding of a question about Francis G. Culpepper's wife and information was provided without the census taker realizing the woman was deceased.
      Eglintine is buried in Mt. Olive Cemetery in Lavaca Co., TX and according to Mrs. Travis (Jacqueline Lorenz) McClinton the following information is on her tombstone: _________________________Eglatine Culpepper _________________________April 1810 _________________________April 3, 1878
      The following record is from p. 52 of Lavaca Co., TX - Cemetery Records Vol. I by Sammy Tise: CULPEPPER, Eglentine_____Apr 1810_____3 Apr 1878
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Source: church minutes reproduced in They Tarried in Taylor by Essie Jones Childs, page 21.
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Eglentine Culpepper was on a list of Bethel Baptist Church members. It indicates that the membership was established in 1829. Bethel Baptist Church was constituted in Talbot County, GA on 4-12-1828. This portion of Talbot County later became Taylor Co. The church later became known as Horeb Baptist Church.
Also on this list:
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Langly, Hampton 1828
      Martha 1828
      William 1828
      Ovesy? 1829
      James Riley 1835
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The year after name is the year the individual became a member.
 
1880 Census1 Jun 1880 Eglintine was listed as Francis Gillespie Culpepper's wife on the 1880 Census at Lavaca Co., Texas.6 
Research note*May 2008 Dwayne,
I was interested to hear that William B. Knox was a founding member of Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Chambers County, Alabama. That probably means that Francis G. Culpepper was a member of that church as well. I'd bet that over time we could piece together quite a few of the families who were in that colony that went to Texas with Frank Culpepper. There were no Knox's buried in this cemetery, nor in any other recorded cemetery in Chambers. But I do see a number of other familiar names there, possibly some who might have been related to Francis G. Culpepper's wife, Eglantine Langley, such as Rev. War Soldier James Langley and various early Anglins.
Lew
-----Original Message-----
From: Dwayne Knox [mailto:dwayne@ritternet.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 6:03 AM
To: Lew Griffin
Subject: Re: old family legend?

Lew,

William B. Knox followed Francis Culpepper from Alabama to Texas. They were both in Chambers County Alabama, both his son John Hugh and Cynthia Jane Culpepper were born in Chambers County. William is on the 1840 census there, (with nine children) and is listed as a founding member of the Mt Pisgah Baptist church there. 

Family

Francis Gillespie Culpepper (31 Jan 1804 - 21 Oct 1903)
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Last Edited 31 May 2008

Citations

  1. 1830 Federal Census, United States.
    Page 339, Duprees Twp, Talbot Co., GA
    Francis G. Culpepper, 1 M20-30, 3 F0-5 (sic), 1 F20-30.
  2. 1840 Federal Census, United States.
    Page 179, Ancestry.com images 21-22, Unknown Township, Chambers Co., AL
    Francis Culpepper, 2 M0-5, 2 M5-10, 3 M10-15, 1 M30-40, 2 F0-5, 1 F5-10, 1 F30-40, 0 slaves.
  3. 1850 Federal Census, United States.
    Page 43, Family 290, Lines 12-25, (not stated) Lafayette Co, MS
    F. G. Culpepper, 46, M, Farmer, 100, SC
    Edlentine Culpepper, 38, F, SC
    William H (W) Culpepper, 21, M, Student, GA
    Martha A E Culpepper, 18, F, GA
    Jas L. Culpepper, 16, M, Student, GA
    Shadrack D. Culpepper, 14, M, SC
    Francis B. Culpepper, 13, M, AL
    Nancy R. Culpepper, 11, F, AL
    Matilda S. Culpepper, 10, F, AL
    Cynthia J. Culpepper, 8, F, AL
    Amanda Culpepper, 6, F, AL
    Mary J. Culpepper, 4, F, AL
    Melvina Culpepper, 3, F, AL
    Salina Culpepper, 1, F, MS.
  4. 1860 Federal Census, United States.
    Sheet 36, Pg 200B, (19 Jun 1860), Hallettesville PO, Lavaca Co., TX (Anc.com img# 36)
    Francis Culpepper, 56, M, SC, RE=$4500, PE=$3500, Farmer
    Egletine Culpepper, 50, F, SC
    Sarah Culpepper, 18, F, AL, Spinister
    Amanda Culpepper, 14, F, AL
    Mary Culpepper, 13, F, AL
    Melvina Culpepper, 12, F, MS
    Selina Culpepper, 11, F, MS
    Geo Ann Culpepper, 9, F, MS
    Shadrick Culpepper, 23, M, AL, Farm Laborer
    Sheet/Pg 9, Pg 061, (1 Slave House), (18 Jun 1860), Lavaca, Lavaca Co., TX (Anc.com img# 9)
    Slaves: 1 F40, 1 M20, 1 F12, 1 M6.
  5. 1870 Federal Census, United States.
    Sheet/Pg 134, Pg 473 (15 Jul 1870), Lavaca Co., TX
    Frank Culpepper, 66, M, SC, RE=$1500, PE=$1500, Farmer
    Egletine Culpepper, 60, F, SC
    Shadrick D. Culpepper, 36, M, GA
    Amanda Culpepper, 28, F, AL
    Georgia Culpepper, 19, F, MS
    Mattie Culpepper, 11, F, TX
    Nancy A. Culpepper, 9, F, TX
    Daniel F. Culpepper, 45, M, AL, Stock-Raiser
    John Holly, 22, M, MO, Works on Farm.
  6. 1880 Federal Census, United States.
    ED 79, Sheet 21, Pg 418A, Pct 3, Lavaca Co., TX
    Frank Culpepper, M, 76, Head, M, SC NC SC, Farmer
    Eglentine Culpepper, F, 70, Wife, M, SC SC SC
    Georgia Culpepper, F, 29, Dau, S, MS SC SC
    Henry Welch, M, 35, Laborer, S, IL IL IL.