Maj. Gen. "Buck" Lanham
Maj. Gen. Charles Trueman "Buck" Lanham was a life soldier who
retired as a general. In 1944, during World War II, his troops were among the first to
break out from Normandy, enter Paris, and attack the Siegfried Line in Germany. He became
friends with author Ernest Hemingway and corresponded with him for the next 17 years.
After the war, Lanham was chief of troop information and education; post-retirement he was
associate editor of Infantry Journal. [from on-line catalog of Princeton
University Library].
"Buck" Lanham's second cousin is Laura Geneva Beckett Walker, the adoptive mother of Deane Merrill's wife Anna Christine Morben: 2C=M(W).
| Trueman Lanham (1798-1856)a,b m. Mary Ellen Tucker (abt.1808-1878)a,b | |
| Geneva August Lanham (1849-1929)a,b m. Humphrey Beckett (1839-1924)a,b |
Trueman Lanham (1840-1915)a,b m. Emma Elizabeth Walker (1845-1919)a,b |
| Walter Howard Beckett (1880-1966)a,b m. Sarah Sewell Hall (1880-1952)a,b |
Ira Clifford Lanham (1876-1963)a,b Alice Bryan O'Neil (b.1898)a,b |
| Laura Geneva Beckett (1908- )a,b | Maj. Gen. Charles Trueman
"Buck" Lanham (1902-1978)a,b |
| Anna Christine Morben (1949-)a,b
m. Deane Whitney Merrill (1938-)a,b |
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Sources:
a. GENDEX database dwmerrill9, Deane Merrill
(merrill@crocker.com).
b. Descendants of Lewis Lanham (1757-1822) Home Page,
Betty Lanham Pound (annie@dycon.com).
back to Deane Merrill's cousin page
updated 3/6/98
http://www.bearhaven.com/family/cousin/ctlanham.html