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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: Gray 4
_FIELD: RP-REPOSITORY
Repository:
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[S1378] Laughlin/Trimble Book page Gray 4
One of the early members of this church and only survivor of the War still living in the community is Mrs. Sara Jane Bartlett and whose son, Troy Bartlett I loaned the early record book of this Christian Church from which the names of the early members were copied.
A Santa Fe Trail Marker stands at the corner of State Line and the one street in the little town. Inscribed on a granite marker is found:
Santa Fe Trail
1821-1872
Marked by the
Daughters of the
American Revolution
and the
State of Missouri
1908
Among the early members of this church we found William & Elizabeth Gray, W.C. Morton & Rachel Gray Morton, John & Annie Laughlin, Robert L. & Rebecca Laughlin, Isaac Lawson, B. Norton (Hyram B.), Richard Laughlin (d 1888).
In these same "Vital Historical Records of Jackson County", surviving Cemetery records: pg. 361 The Kerby Burying Ground `among those who were buried here and removed to the little cemetery at New Santa Fe Church':
"Billy" Gray
_______ Morton, son-in-law of "Billy" Gray
Mrs. ___________ Morton, daughter of "Uncle Billy" and "Aunt Betsy" Gray, died 1882
As far as we know (1992), this is the only mention of a burial of our Gray ancestors. They were living in this area 1880. There is no 1890 census.
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