Person:James Laughlin (11)

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•Name: James LAUGHLIN •Surname: LAUGHLIN •Given Name: James •Sex: M •Birth: 20 Jan 1735/1736 in near Belfast, Ireland •Death: 27 Mar 1810 in Spring Creek, Washington Co., VA •Birth: 20 Jan 1734/1735 in near Belfast, Ireland

Marriage 1 Mary Jane DUNKIN b: 1740 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania •Married: 10 Jun 1756 Children 1. Elizabeth LAUGHLIN b: 10 May 1757 in Black Fort, VA 2. Alexander Duncan LAUGHLIN b: 1760 3. Jane Duncan LAUGHLIN b: ABT 1764 in Washington Co., Virginia 4. Mary LAUGHLIN b: BET 1767 AND 1770 5. Matty LAUGHLIN b: 1768 6. Sally Mary LAUGHLIN b: 1770 7. Ann LAUGHLIN b: 9 Jan 1774 in TN 8. John Duncan LAUGHLIN b: 1776 9. James LAUGHLIN b: 1780 10. Margaret LAUGHLIN b: 1 Oct 1784 11. Susannah M. Laughlin b: 10 Jan 1786 in Abingdon, Washington, VA

1.   Fitzgerald, O. P. John B. McFerrin, a biography. (Nashville, Tennessee: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1888)
   pg. 16-17.

   HE McFerrins emigrated from Ireland to America about 1750. They settled in York County, Pennsylvania. The family connection consisted of three brothers and their young families. The descendants of one of the three removed to the western part of that State. The Rev. Dr. McFerrin, an able and respected minister of the Presbyterian Church, lived for many years near Pittsburgh. William McFerrin, the greatgrandfather [sic, s/b grandfather] of John B. McFerrin, removed to Augusta County, Virginia, in 1765, where he married Jane Laughlin. John Laughlin, the father of James, was married to Jane Matthews, and was reared within two miles of Belfast, Ireland. They emigrated to America in 1753, and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His son James married a Miss Duncan, and the grandmother of John B. McFerrin was one of their numerous offspring. These Duncans indulged a pardonable pride in a family tradition that they were remotely connected with the once royal family of Scotland. (The most democratic of Americans are seldom indifferent to the fact of having a noble ancestry.)
   
   The Laughlins and Duncans became numerous families, and intermarried with the Singletons, the Kings, the Sharps, the Prices, the Vances, the Berrys, the Youngs, the Porters, and many others.
   
   The Laughlins were noted for their muscular strength and courage. These qualities were highly valued at that clay, and many striking incidents were related concerning these strong and dauntless people. One of these was the grandmother of J. B. McFerrin. She was small of stature, weighing only one hundred and ten pounds, but was a woman of extraordinary bodily strength. She became the mother of nine children, all of whom lived to reach maturity and developed into remarkable physical vigor. Some of this Laughlin family became noted, also, for their intellectual power and culture. There seem to be remarkable exceptions to the law that unusual brain power is to be looked for in connection with a vigorous physique, but the law holds good in general. The sound mind is found with the sound body. The human being is a unit, and all its faculties and powers are correlated and interdependent. It is not an unwise or heartless thing to inquire into the physical as well as the moral soundness of the family with which you may become allied by marriage. Passion will not pause to consider this question in most cases, but rushes blindly on to secure its object, leaving future generations to pay the penalty.

2.   There are differences in Maellen King Ford's book on the Kings. Revised edition is on call #929.273 K589f. She says he was born in 1838 in Ireland. Our birthday of 20 Jan 1736 was in a family bible but I don't have it so can't verify. She also says the marriage is 20 Jan 1758. May be a typo on someone's part.