One of the progressive, forward looking young men of the A. M. E. Zion
Connection who with singleness of purpose devotes all his time and
talents to the work of the ministry is Rev. Henry Philbert Lankford
of Gastonia (1919).

He is a native of Virginia though the range of his work has extended from Pennsylvania to Georgia. He was born in Southampton Co., Va. on Oct. 5, 1884. His parents were Allen G. and Laura A. Lankford.

His paternal grandparents were Ned and Agnes Lankford and the maternal grandparents were Alfred and Laura Freeman.

Allen Lankford was a man of education, having graduated from Hampton
Institute.