MySource:Kcshrader/Laughlin/Trimble book page 38

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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: 38

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[S1277] Laughlin Book page 38 38 Station near Stilwell, Kansas. After building a good business, in 1950 they bought a garage in Stanley. They both had worked there while in high school. After 30 years Laughlin Brothers Garage was sold in 1976. Herb and Edna moved to Pomme de Terre Lake in S.W. Missouri where they still live in 1991.

3rd Child of JESSE WARD & CORA LAUGHLIN

Gen #5

MARION JESSE LAUGHLIN • m 19 June 1938 Johnson Co. Ks. • JULIA MARIE EDWARDS b 28 March 1916 Joplin, Mo. (Jasper) • • b. 29 May 1916 Wyandotte Co. Kansas

•  • parents:   Lewis G. Edwards (1890-1973)  O. Mae Brunk (1896-1966)
• ch: Jerry Ward, Judith Wren • 

Marion J. Laughlin was nicknamed "Jimmy" at an early age. Many friends never did know my true name.

I was born in Joplin, Missouri where my father was a hoisting engineer at a lead and zink mine in S.W. Missouri. The family lived in Stanley, Kansas but traveled to several areas in Kansas where Pop used steam engines in the harvest fields threshing wheat. The early 1920s in Ellis & Russel Counties, 1927 at Plainville 1928 Parsons, Kansas where he helped clear the right-of-way for the highway between Parsons and Coffeyville. I attended schools in these towns for just part of some years.

Early memories especially around Stanley, included learning to swim in the shallow water of Niger Creek at the edge of Stanley, wading and catching crawdads then cooking them over coals which covered potatoes cooking. We went hiking out in the country and around the four square mile on country roads, sometimes to Kenneth. Winter time there were school activities, sleding with bon fires, and house parties. The two room grade school was ruled over by Mr. Vernon Myers who was tough on the older unruly boys but everyone received a good education. Recess was a time for games, usually baseball or basket ball, coached and refereed by Mr. Myers.

This same school was attended by more than one generation of Laughlins. Cora Belle (Filtingberger) Laughlin spent her years there before Irene, Herbert, Jim, and Bonnie. Then in 1950-52 my children Jerry & Judith had the same teacher, Mr. Myers.

In High School I enjoyed playing Basket Ball and taking part in school plays and debate along with the usual teenage parties and pranks. Except for one semester my sophomore year Stanley was my school, where I graduated in 1934. There were 20 in the graduating class. The school has an alumni reunion each year.

I remember most, summertime going with Pop when he threshed wheat for the farmers around Stanley. I would be water boy and run errands, fetch tools or whatever was needed. Pop would let me steer the big steam engine down the road when he was moving from farm to farm. One time he needed to go to town and said I could keep the machine going slowly down the country road but I went too far over the edge and got stuck. Another time I drove the car following him and got bored with the slow pace. I laged behind about a half mile and then drove faster to catch up but hit a mud hole and got stuck again. Pop had to unhook the steam engine, back up and pull the car out. He wasn't very happy but all I got was a lesson on doing what I was told. I was about 15 at that time.

I learned to drive at about 10 in an old Maxwell touring car that didn't have any tires on the wheels. It wasn't used anymore, just parked in front of the house. My friend Bud Lender and I would spend an hour cranking to get it started, then drive back and forth right there. Pop said 'as long as you don't go out on the street'. As boys will, we got tired of that and one day Bud talked me into going 1/2 mile east of Stanley and back. Naturally Pop found out, so that