Elizabeth Langford

Elizabeth Langford is the only child born to Jeremiah Euchlet Langford and Sarah Ann Unity Robinson, both of Georgia.

The Langford family left Georgia and joined the Seth M. Blair / Edward Stevenson Company to journey to the Great Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Cholera, a bacterial disease caused from contaminated water, infected many of the travelers. Jeremiah and Sarah both died on June 19, 1855 and are buried in Kansas. Sadly, their precious 11-year-old daughter followed them in death and is buried with other Saints in Atchison, Kansas.

From the company journal: “Brother Jerry Sangford and wife both died during the night and the four were buried at this camp, on the hill some two hundred yards from the Creek on the West side of the road. On the next day Eliza Jost, Mary York, Susan Greer, Martha Allison, Sarah Jones, James Jones, and Elisabeth Langford died and were buried at the same place.”