Son of Daniel Kelly Langston and Elizabeth Sawyer Langston. Brother of Sarah E, Isaac Taylor and Louisa Jane Langston.

The following was added by Lyon Stracner:
Benjamin F. Langston is my great, great grandfather.(son of Daniel Kelly Langston and Elizabeth Sawyer) He is buried at Oakland Cemetery in Warren with his wife,7 of his children, and his mother. He was from Warren, Ar, where I now reside. He served with the the 5th AR Infantry, Company C under the Army of TN with Govan's Brigade under Gen. Clebourne, who were both from Helena, AR. He was injured in the Battle of Franklin on Nov. 30 (which there are accounts of men having to be pried from the ground out of their frozen blood because it froze that night and this goes with Uncle Earl's letter as well as some other research I've done), left there to recover, then captured by the Union in Franklin on Dec 17th after the Nashville Campaign. He was admitted to a USA hospital in Nashville March 27, 1865, then listed as a MP in Camp Chase, Ohio April 3, 1965. He is not on the Camp Chase database and I would like to finish his amazing story. Did he ride the mule from Columbus to Warren with a four month old amputation? There is no oral history of any of these facts. Anyone with information on prisoner releases, etc...PLEASE contact me. He mustered in Warren on May 14, 1861 along with his cousin Daniel Thomas Langston (son of Absalom and Mary "Polly" Hart, both buried at Gravel Ridge) and was killed in the Battle of Murpresboro. His uncles, George(ho was wounded?) and Jesse Langston (died of typhoid in Dalton, GA) also mustered with this group. Geroge and Jesse A.or S. are sons of Isaac Langston. who was Ben's grandfather. Ben married Absalom's youngest daughter, Almeda Manema "Emma" Langston, his 3rd cousin in Dec of 1872. Their oldest daughter,Lula, married Norman McLeod, who was the mayor of Warren. Lula's daughter Almeda, named for her grandmother, married UR Byars of Bearden. Their oldest daughter Norma Jean Byars Lyon was my mother. I grew up on the lot where Lula and Norman built their house, which my mother tore down to build our house.(Norman and Lula lived in a house where the Kentucky Fried Chicken on Main now stands and that is where my gm, Almeda was born before they built the house on Cedar. Her parents, Ben and Almeda lived in a house on the next street, Mrytle, across from the old Edrington/Dixon house. Ben also owned a farm to keep livestock atthe end of Cedar across from the Human Development Center, which I think the Raper family now owns. Ben was listed as a teacher in Banks, Ar. He and sold sewing machines, traveling by horse, according to a letter he wrote to his wife. He served as Post Master, Tax Assessor, and County Clerk (up to his death) for Warren. The County Clerk's office still stands, (although it was wood at the time he served and is now brick), beside the Bradley Co. Court House. My mother always called it "Grandpa's office". He was a charter member of the First United Methodist Church in Warren and there is a stained glass window in his memory there. I think my grandpa lived as good and honorable life as he could after surviving the war and losing his leg. I am very proud to be his great, great granddaughter. Elizabeth "Libby"