Family Lore and Legend

  • Daniel Suiter had been through a difficult few years, serving with the 80th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army. His unit had seen some significant action, and would see more before the War Between the States finally ended. For…

  • Lawrence Lavern Suiter, son of Lloyd Wesley and Laura (Cole) Suiter, was born on April 19, 1923 in Stafford County, Kansas. He grew up on a farm, with three older half-siblings, and one younger sister. The 1930s were a difficult…

  • Lloyd Wesley SUITER, son of Daniel SUITER (1836-1907) and Hannah ALLBAUGH (1841-1899), was born on August 27, 1880 in Seneca County, Ohio. He moved with his family to Lane County, Kansas about 1894. In 1900, he was living with his…

  • Laura B. Cole was born December 20, 1882 in Seneca County, Ohio, the third child of Benjamin and Rebecca Ann (Elliott) Cole. Before she turned three, her father died, aged 35. Sometime between 1885 and 1890, Rebecca remarried, to Edward…

  • Marion Jesse “Jim” Laughlin was born to Jesse W. Laughlin and Cora Belle Filtingberger on March 28, 1916, in Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri. He was the third of five children in the family. Jim provided an autobiographical essay for “Descendants…

  • Jesse LAUGHLIN, born September 2, 1887 in Martin City, Jackson County, Missouri, was the son of John Breckenridge LAUGHLIN and Annie MORTON. This was near the town of New Santa Fe, the first stop for travelers from Independence, Missouri, on…

  • A Rose By Any Other Name — or, who is Elmer’s wife, anyway?

  • Irene Ethel LAUGHLIN, daughter of Jesse W. LAUGHLIN (1887-1968) and Cora Belle FILTINGBERGER (1892-1973), was born on April 10, 1910 in Stanley, Johnson County, Kansas. She lived in Johnson County until adulthood. Irene married Robert Albert POWELL on June 19,…

  • My primary goals in reviewing and documenting my grandmother’s research are to 1) cite sources for her assertions, and 2) disprove any errors. Naturally, I hope for mostly the former, and very few of the latter. I think I found…

  • Bonnie June LAUGHLIN, daughter of Jesse W. LAUGHLIN (1887-1968) and Cora Belle FILTINGBERGER (1892-1973), was born on August 19, 1924 in Johnson County, Kansas. She attended schools at Stanley, Johnson County, Kansas, graduating from high school in 1942. Bonnie married…

Surnames and Locations

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