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_SRCT:
_FIELD: TX-AUTHOR
Text: Marion J. "Jim" Laughlin and Julia Laughlin
_FIELD: DT-PUBLICATION_DATE
Date: 1992
_FIELD: TX-TITLE
Text: Descendants of John Laughlin and Tabitha Trimble
_FIELD: TX-PUBLISHER
Text: self-published
_FIELD: TX-REFERENCE
Text: 25
_FIELD: RP-REPOSITORY
Repository:
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[S1314] Laughlin/Trimble Book page 25
Generation #2
Robert Lucky Laughlin • m 24 Aug 1848 Nicholas Co. Ky. • Rebecca Frances Githens
b 7 Jan 1830 Bourbon Co. Ky. • • b 20 Feb 1832 Bourbon Co. Ky.
d 20 Oct 1914 Franklin Co. Kansas • • d 7 March 1913 Franklin Co. Kansas
• • parents: John H. Githens Rebecca Cooper m 8 Sept 1830 Bourbon Co. Ky.
• ch: Martha, Nancy, John B., Louisa, Robert Jr., Eli C., Richard F., Wm. Elliott, Sterling •
Robert & Rebecca were farmers in 1850 Nicholas County, Ky. All the children were born in Bourbon or Nicholas Counties. Robert & Rebecca are first found on census 1850 Nicholas Co. District #2 page 428 line 551, no children. Robert's father & mother with younger siblings and his brother, John Jr. are nearby.
Robert on the Early Tax List until 1862 and again in 1867. These were Civil War years. We believe Robert participated in the war as a volunteer, but have not yet found a record.
About 1877 some of the grown children migrated to Jackson County, Missouri and in the spring of 1879 Robert and Rebecca followed with the younger children. On the 1880 census son John is living in Washington Twp. near New Santa Fe, the historic stopping point on the western migration route to Oregon and New Mexico. John and wife Annie (Morton) with their baby daughter Clora Lee. New Santa Fe is on the Missouri-Kansas state line. A mile away in Johnson County Kansas we find Robert & Rebecca living with two youngest sons Wm. Elliott and Sterling. There is no 1890 census for these states.
Robert & Rebecca and their children John B., Richard, Eli, Nancy, and Louise (Lizzie) are listed as members of the New Santa Fe Christian Church. (Vital Historical Records of Jackson County Mo. 1826-1876).
1900 and 1910 our families are in Johnson County Kansas. Robert and Rebecca living with their sons Wm. Elliott, Sterling, and Eli, in Mission Township and then in Lenexa, Shawnee Twp.
In June 1912 at ages 80 & 82 Robert & Rebecca traveled to Franklin Co. Kansas to the home of Louisa (Lizzie) Heinis. Probably by horse and buggy. For someone in their 80s in those days, 50 miles was a long, arduous trip. During the winter of 1912/13 Rebecca fell and broke a hip, dying of complications one week later.
Robert L. stayed in Franklin County and died 20 Oct 1914. They had a long life and lived together for 65 years. Both are buried in the Princeton Cemetery in Franklin County Kansas. where the Heinis family are also buried. The Sexton reports there are no stones marking the graves and no records have survived. The preceeding obituaries and Rebecca's Death Certificate are the only proof we have found of their final resting place.
CHILDREN OF ROBERT & REBECCA LAUGHLIN
Gen #3
Martha J. Laughlin (Mattie) • m 7 Jan 1875 Nicholas Co. Ks. • Cameron A. Manas
b 24 Jan 1851 Nicholas Co. Ky. • •
d 21 Feb 1937 • •
• no further information on this family •
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