Person:Ellender Laughlin (1)

adopted parents: John Laughlin and Margaret Duncan (2)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Case, Nelson. History of Labette County, Kansas and representative citizens. (Chicago, Illinois: Biographical Publishing Company, 1901).

   JAMES O. STOTTS, ... was born in Morgan county, Indiana, May 22, 1829, and is a son of Robert C. and Helen (Laughlin) Stotts.
   
   Robert C. Stotts and his wife were born in Virginia, of Scotch descent. They were married in Virginia, and went at an early period, to Indiana, where the husband was engaged in farming until his death, at the age of sixty years. His wife also died in Indiana. They were parents of seven children, as follows: Virginia, Margaret, Sarah, John L. and Robert C., all of whom are deceased; James 0.; and Eliza (Smith), who resides in her native county in Indiana.

2. ↑ Madison, Daviess, Indiana, in United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
   Image 22/Page 367.