↑ "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FBDJ-SVS : 16 March 2020), John Lanham and Mary Garnes, 1831; citing Jackson, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 567,217.
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8DH-3RL : 23 December 2020), John Lanham, Kanawha, Virginia, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6RP-Y49 : 15 January 2022), John R. Lanham in household of Calvin Fields, Washington District, Jackson, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
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I'm wondering why the Roy's are living with the Lanham's, I'm a descendant of the Roy's but can find no links to the Lanham family. Maybe it had something to do with the civil war.