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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: Stephens 5
_FIELD: RP-REPOSITORY
Repository:
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[S1389] Laughlin/Trimble Book page Stephens 5
James Stephens • m 3 Nov 1883 Clay Co. Mo. • Belle Baxter
b Oct 1859 Missouri • • b June 1863 Missouri
d 1905 Johnson Co. Ks. • •
• ch: Andrew, Clarence, Lansing •
James Stephens is listed with his parents on the 1860 census Jackson County Missouri age 2 years. On the 1870 census in Morgan County Missouri age 10 and the 1880 census again in Jackson County Missouri age 21. He was a farm laborer.
In Johnson County Kansas on the State Territorial census of 1885 at age 25 in Olathe Township James and Belle had a young son Andrew age 1 year. We did not find the family on the 1895 State census but on the 1900 Federal census they are found in Shawnee township, Dist. 105, line 216
Stephens, James • born Oct 1859 • Missouri • R.R. laborer
Stephens, Mabel ?? • born June 1863 • Missouri •
Stephens, Andrew • born May 1884 • Kansas •
Stephens, Clarence • born June 1887 • Kansas •
Stephens, Lansing • born June 1888 • Kansas •
We have not searched this family but we know their children lived in or near Johnson County, Kansas, leaving many descendants.
The Johnson County Kansas Cemetery Index by the Johnson County Genealogical Society and Library 1985 shows a burial of James Stephens 1859-1905 in the Olathe Cemetery. We do not know if this is the James from this family, as it does not list his wife or children. The listing is on page 252.
Eliza Jane Stephens • m 23 Dec 1880 Lacyne, Ks. • Manuel Filtingberger
b 10 Nov 1860 Jackson Co. Mo. • lic. at Olathe, Johnson Co., Ks. • b 4 April 1851 Gallia Co., Ohio
d 7 Feb 1942 Johnson Co. Ks. age 82 • • d 23 April 1925 Johnson Co. Ks. age 74
• • parents: Henry Filtingberger Susannah Stonebrook
• ch: William, Pearl, Charles, Mary, Cora Belle •
Eliza Jane Stephens was living with her parents on the 1880 census of Jackson Co. Missouri, taken during the summer months, and Manuel was in Johnson Co. Ks. with his parents, a distance of just a few months.
Manuel applied for their marriage license at Olathe, Kansas, the county seat. They were married at Lacyne, Kansas, Linn Co., which is about 40 miles south of Stanley and Olathe. Quite a distance in those days but it was on the Old Military Road to Ft. Scott, Kansas, garrison for the biggest U.S. Army in the region. Now 69 Highway.
We don't know if the Stephens family moved to Lacyne after the census of 1880 was taken, or if some of Eliza Jane's relatives lived there. The Historical Society of Linn Co. finds a number of Stephens & Filtingberger families living there but we cannot connect them to our families before 1900. The missing 1890 census of Missouri & Kansas has caused a problem in finding several of our ancestors at the time they may have died and were buried. Church records in Jackson County Missouri have been of some help.
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