He was born on January 14, 1854 in Georgia, and died June 2, 1931 in Greenville. He was the seventh of eleven children born to Abner F. Langford (1809-1880) and Ann Jane Griffin (1820-1870). The 1860 and 1870 censuses has him living with his parents in Dale, Alabama. In 1884, he married Nannie Stacy Heaton. The censuses from 1900 and beyond have him living in Greenville.
My understanding is that Jefferson was a mule trader. Evidently he was pretty good at it, as he acquired a lot of land around Greenville. I hope to get a map of 1930's Greenville someday to see how much land he owned.
