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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: 35
_FIELD: RP-REPOSITORY
Repository:
_AUTO: 0
[S1297] - Laughlin/Trimble Book page 35
Gen #4
GEORGE W. LAUGHLIN
b 14 Aug 1883 Jackson Co. Missouri -- d 1 Nov 1883 Jackson Co. Mo.
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DORA F. LAUGHLIN m ORVILLE MURRAY
b 20 Oct 1884
Jackson Co. Mo.
ch: RUTH MURRAY, ERNEST MURRAY
Generation #4 - 5th child of John B. & Annie (Morton) Laughlin
JESSE WARD LAUGHLIN • m 19 Aug 1909 Johnson Co. Ks. • CORA BELLE FILTINGBERGER
b 2 Sept 1887 Jackson Co. Mo. • • b 26 Nov 1892 Johnson Co. Ks.
d 5 Feb 1968 Johnson Co. Ks. • • d 9 Dec 1973 Johnson Co. Ks.
Jesse Laughlin lived in Jackson Co. Mo. near the town of New Santa Fe, the first stop for travelers from Independence on their western migration. About 1890 the family moved to Johnson Co. Kansas, just across the state line. His father was a farmer.
Jesse attended school through the 5th or 6th grade and left home in his late teens to work in a sawmill in Jonesboro, Ark. and roamed around the country for a time before returning home. This was a usual part of growing up for boys in those days.
In 1909 Jesse married Cora Belle Filtingberger, daughter of Manuel Filtingberger and Eliza Jane Stephens, early residents of Johnson County. Jesse worked for his uncle B. (Hyram) Morton who taught him how to operate and repair steam engines used to power threshing machines.
In 1916 the family moved to Joplin, Missouri, where Jesse was a hoisting engineer at a lead and zink mine. Later he bought his own threshing machine and did custom threshing for farmers in Johnson County. After the harvest near home he would ship his machine to western Kansas - Russell & Ellis counties - where he threshed wheat from shocks in the fields.
Some time in the early 1920s Jesse ran a steam engine for Davidson Bros. Construction Co. pulling difference machines used in building many of the early highways around Kansas City. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he cleared the right-of-way for construction of #50, 69, and 169 in Johnson County from Kansas City, Mo. and Kansas City, Ks. to Olathe and the south county line. Some stretches of these highways were brick, laid by hands of hundreds of workers.
When not helping farmers with harvest or road work, Jesse pulled hedge trees along county roads and for farmers who were clearing land. One time the family moved to Plainville, Kansas in the heart of the wheat growing country where Jesse and his brother Grover owned their stem engine used to power the wheat seperator. 1928 the family lived in Parsons, Kansas where Jesse helped clear the right-of-way for the highway project between Parsons and Coffeyville in Labette County. About 1936 Jesse bought a Caterpillar tractor and earth moving equipment with which to dig ponds and lakes for farmers in Johnson County, Ks.
Jesse & Cora lived most of their lives around Stanley, Kansas and thru his work knew almost everyone in Johnson County. Jesse could play the violin and they enjoyed going to barn dances and house parties. Thru the years Jesse owned several cars of the times. A 1917 Maxwell touring car, a 1924 Rickenbacker four door sedan and a 1928 Dodge four door sedan among the early ones.
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