Descendants of Luke Langston of Calloway County Kentucky

Information given by a grandson, Luke Alva Lee (Judge) Langston from personal knowledge and records in his hands May 30, 1940.

Luke Langston was born in North Carolina April 20, 1794, married Jerusia Knight from Georgia about 1816. They settled in Calloway County, KY about 1819. Under the GRANT ACT of the Kentucky Assembly 1825 he entered two quarter sections of land, Range 3, East located about 3 miles West of Wadesboro, then the County Seat of Calloway County. This location would now be described as 3 miles North of Kirksey on highway 299

On this land he built his home and raised a family of eight children. Their names are: Enoch, Diana, Jane, John, William, Hansel, George and Alvah. He died Dec.26, 1873. She died Feb 25, 1877. Both are buried in Mt Carmel Church Cemetery.

Mt Carmel is a Methodist Church organized about 1840. He was one of the leaders in the church and gave the land for the church and graveyard located three tenths of a mile west of his home site. A certificate found among his papers written on parchment signed by the Presiding Bishop of the Memphis Annual Conference in session at Paducah, Ky, 1851 show that he was then ordained as a minister of the Methodist church. The pioneer circuit rider would stay at Luke’s home when he came to Mt Carmel to preach.

His children were told that their father taught school when he first came to Western Ky. But they were not told until they wore grown that he could play a fiddle and that he played for the old time dances in Carolina in his young manhood days.

He was a carpenter, brick mason and farmer by trade. He never heard from his two or three brothers after leaving