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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 of John Laughlin and Tabitha Trimble”, a family history book he co-authored with his wife,…