ROANE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA 
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@aol.com
November 28, 1999
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LANG: Arthur Wellington Lang, of Tanners Run on the Spencer and Ripley turnpike, was born
in Harrison County, in the year 1841, son of Hender­son and Mary (Ferris) Lang; enlisted and
served as a soldier of the Confederacy, in the 14th Regiment, Virginia Calvary, and was one of
the picked three hundred assigned to General Albert G. Jenkins for his famous raid from
Virginia into Ohio where horses were commandeered for the Confederate cavalry; and on which
raid General Jenkins cap­tured Buckhannon, Weston, Glenville, and Spencer, Ripley and
Ravens- wood. Mr. Lang “rather liked” Spencer and after that war, returned to Harrison County
and there married Margaret Teter. Of this marriage two sons were born: Homer and Arthur W.,
Jr. With these and the wife, Arthur W. Lang came to Roane County, purchased the farm on
Tanners Run, in the year 1901, lives there yet, :hale and hearty, though now (1926) in his
eighty-sixth year of age. He frequently walks to town since the old turnpike is now
concrete-surfaced from town to where it passes his door. Homer Lang, of the above family, is
not married; Arthur, Jr., married. Miss Sallie J. Goff, Feb. 25, 1910; he then 26, she 26. 

Source:
History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 579