 Of the older half-siblings, William Langston had the closest relationship with Quarles's sons.Before his death, Ralph Quarles arranged for his Quaker friend William Gooch to be made guardian of his children.As requested by Quarles, after the parents both died in 1833 (when Charles was sixteen and his younger brother John Mercer Langston was four), Gooch moved with the three boys and their half-brother William Langston to Chillicothe, Ohio, in a free state.