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_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: Morton 3
_FIELD: RP-REPOSITORY
Repository:
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[S1368] Laughlin/Trimble Book page Morton 3
The 1860s were turbulent times along the state line between Missouri and Kansas during the Civil War conflict between Secessionists and the Unionists causing much fear to the inhabitants, many of which left their homes according to the Order #11 by General Ewing.
We believe that Warren C. Morton took his young bride and first child, Annie, to Kentucky, Shelby County in order to volunteer, probably for the South. We have found no Military record to prove this (the Confederacy did not issue Pensions, some states did after a long period). This is our belief because of the two children born 1867 and 1868 according to the census, in Kentucky. We will continue to search.
In Jackson County Missouri we again find on the 1870 census our family living in Lee Summit, Prairie Twp., page 81 line 619/634.
Morton, Warren C. • age 41 • born Ky • farmer
Morton, Rachel • age 35 • born Virginia •
Morton, Ann • age 8 • born Missouri •
Morton, B. Hyram • age 3 • born Kentucky •
Morton, Betty Lee • age 2 • born Kentucky •
We did not find W.C. Morton and Rachel (Gray) on the 1880 census of Jackson Co. Missouri, not on Johnson Co. Kansas, across the state line where many of the early settlers migrated after the Civil War. We presume that they may have die because we have found their children in the area of New Santa Fe.
1880 Jackson Co. Mo. Washington Twp. page 17 line 135/138
Laughlin, John • age 26 • born Ky • farmer
Laughlin, Annie • age 19 • born Mo. •
Laughlin, Clora Lee • age 2 mo. • born Mo. •
Laughlin, Betty • age 12 • born Ky • sister-in-law
(we have found nothing else on Betty, no marriage or death)
page 10 E.D. 39
Morton, Hiram B., born Ky. age 16 - working for McPherson
There is no 1890 census so we next find our Morton family in Johnson Co. Kans. on the 1900 census. Annie (Morton) Laughlin's descendants are followed in the Laughlin Story.
Hyram B. Morton has been known and remembered simply as B. Morton. He was found in 1900 thru 1915 in Johnson Co. Kans. and is thought to have lived in Belton, Mo., Cass Co. in the 1920s. He was a farmer and owned steam machinery, he was instrumental in his nephew, Jesse Laughlin, learning to use and maintain large steam machinery in road building, hedge pulling, wheat harvest, and other work requiring heavy machinery.
1900 Johnson Co. Ks. Aubry Twp. sheet 5 line 55
Morton, Hyram B. • age 33 • born Ky • farmer
Morton, Hattie • • born Mo. •
Bertha • age 5 • born Mo. •
Mabel • age 2 • born Mo. •
Lyda • age 1 • born Mo. •
As of 1992 this is the last of our information on Betty and Hyram B. Morton, children of Warren C. & Rachel (Gray) Morton. No doubt there are marriage and death records on the descendants of Hyram B. Morton in Johnson Co. Ks. and Missouri.
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