Wann Langston, Jr. - a life amongst bones

摘要

Wann Langston Jr. was born on 10 July, 1921 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was the only surviving son of Wann Langston and Myrtle Fanning Langston, who died in childbirth as his life began. Three previous children all died young. The derivation of the name "Wann" is not fully known, but appears to have been the patronymic of an itinerant, African-American Baptist preacher who visited Warm's grandfather and made a sufficiently strong impression that he named his son Wann. Middle names were not used in the family.