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Charles Langston, Marker
Artist: Hughes, Langston
Height: 0.000"
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Charles Langston, Marker, Oak Hill Cemetery
When Charles Langston died in 1892, he left his widow Mary to support their daughter Carolina (Carrie) Langston. His children Desalines and Nathaniel were adults by then. Langston Hughes never knew his grandfather.
Charles Langston attended Oberlin College, recruited African-American soldiers for Kansas regiments, worked for the Impartial Temperance movement, and taught at Quindaro Colored School in northeast Kansas. In the 1850s, Langston was part of abolitionist efforts that included the Underground Railroad in Ohio and abolitionist efforts. He lived in Leavenworth, Kansas, 1862 to 1868 (Andreas). He moved to the Lawrence area in 1870, where he farmed and worked in the grocery business at 820 Massachusetts St.
This granite stone was placed on the Oak Hill gravesite in 1991 by Pinckney School students.