Braxton Lankford

Other Events:

• Raid: 9 April 1865, Stokes County, North Carolina; Braxton Loses a mare to the Union Army
• Claims Commission: 20 Dec 1875, Stokes County, North Carolina; Files claim for mare lost during war with the Southern Claims Commission which recognized the Federal Government's debt to loyal citizens for property loses suffered during the Civil War.
• Newspaper: 22 Sep 1887, Danbury, Stokes County, NC; Owners of Mineral Lands in Danbury
• Newspaper: 11 April 1907, Stokes County, North Carolina; It is learned that Mr. Braxton Lankford, of Campbell Rt. 2 fell & hurt himself a few days since & is seriously ill from the effects of the fall & other complications. Mr. Lankford is one of the oldest citizens of the county.

Notes:

Newspaper:
Stokes County Minerals

We learn that one or more realroad Co's want to accertain the fact whether we have iron ores, and other minerals in the section of Stokes just around Danbury. Our word for it, we have in great abundance, but we say come and see for yourselves. This section of Stokes county will furnish more freight to the square mile, than any section of the same extend in the state, we mean in tonage, the freights will be heavy, magnetic iron ore, the hemetites, manganese, graphite and several other minerals, such as lime, mica, asbestos, building stone, etc.

Below we give a partial list of those who own iron and other minerals here, and as we have said before, the existence of those minerals is no theory, some of them having been worked near one hundred years.

J.H Fagg, magnetic iron good out crop, Powell Lawson, undeveloped, Brax Lankford, undeveloped, William Nelson good veins 6 to 8 feet thick, Julius Lawson, undeveloped, B.R. Lawson, undeveloped, William Fagg, old works good vein, Mastin Mabe, good veins.

The above is only a partial list of those who own mineral lands in this section the mineral right on which in most cases may be brought not only reasonable but low considering the real value.

Died:
(Danbury Reporter Feb 6) Mr. Braxton Lankford who was one of the oldest citizens in the co., died a few days since at his home near Lawsonville. Mr. Lankford was born in 1818 and was therefore 90 years of age.

Braxton married Nancy Elizabeth "Lizzie" Fagg on 07 May 1865 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Nancy (daughter of John Fagg and Frances Lawson) was born in May 1842 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died on 8 Feb 1930 in Peters Creek, Stokes, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Braxton married Jincy/Quincy Unknown in 1840 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Jincy/Quincy was born in 1815. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]