Sandra Helen Langford

Sandra Helen Langford, daughter of Vernere C. Langford and Beatrice Johnson, was born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia on March 16, 1944. She was the 5th child of 11—Barbara Anne Langford, Vernon Eugene Langford, James Stewart Langford, Vivien Lee Langford, Sandra Helen Langford, Bonnie Sue Langford, Brenda Elizabeth Langford, Francis Lanell Langford, Sherry Delores Langford, Larry Kenneth Langford, and Patricia Langford. Sandra is my 4th cousin 1x removed with our nearest common relatives being Charles L. Lankford and Miss Moore, my 4th great grandparents.

When Sandra was seven months old, she contracted laryngotracheobronchitis, an “inflammation and obstruction of the larynx, trachea, and major bronchi of children” according to The Free Dictionary. We know it as croup. She was taken from her home on Eastland Road in southeast Atlanta to Grady Hospital in downtown Atlanta. Sandra died there 24 hours later, on October 24, 1944. She was buried at Hillcrest Cemetery in East Point, Fulton County, Georgia the next day following a funeral service officiated by Rev. W. A. Duncan.

References

• FUNERAL NOTICES - LANGFORD, Sandra Helen, The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, October 25, 1944.
• Larry Kenneth Langford obituary, The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, March 26, 1963.
• Laryngotracheobronchitis, The Free Dictionary; https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/laryngotracheobronchitis. 
• MORTUARY - SANDRA HELEN LANGFORD, The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, October 25, 1944.
• Personal memories and photos provided by Vernon Langford.
• Sandra Helen Langford, Certificate of Death no. 21739, Georgia Department of Public Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
• U.S. Federal Census, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 1950.