--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family Group Record 0079 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Husband's Name Thomas McLaughlin Born: 1775 Place: Maryland Died: 06 May 1860 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Married: 08 Dec 1799 Place: Greene County, Tennessee Father: Mother: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wife's Name Elizabeth (Betsy) Crow Born: 1781 Place: Augusta County, Virginia Died: 1862 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Father: Benjamin Crow Mother: Ann Gragg (Gregg) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children 6 children identified --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moved to Missouri 1803 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Sex Name M Henry G. McLaughlin Born: Abt 1803 Place: Bellevue, Washington, Missouri Died: Place: Married: Abt 1826 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Spouse: Malinda Edmiston --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Sex Name M Walter Crow McLaughlin Born: Abt 1812 Place: Bellevue, Washington, Missouri Died: Place: Hopkins County, Texas Married: 02 Feb 1832 Place: Clark (Pike) County, Arkansas (A-76) Spouse: Rebecca Bittick Married: 11 May 1859 Place: Hopkins County, Texas Spouse: Cynthia Neal --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Sex Name M William Finley McLaughlin Born: Abt 1814 Place: Bellevue, Washington, Missouri Died: Aft 1880 Place: Pike County, Arkansas (census) Married: 09 Jul 1838 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (B-18) Spouse: Harriet Weir Married: Abt 1846 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Spouse: Emily Kelley --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Sex Name M John Crow McLaughlin Born: 03 Jan 1816 Place: Bellevue, Washington, Missouri Died: 28 Oct 1898 Place: Roy, Pike, Arkansas Married: Abt 1837 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Spouse: Mary (Polly) Kelley --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moved to Clark County, Arkansas 1818 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Sex Name M Andrew Jackson McLaughlin Born: Abt 1818 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Died: Place: Married: Place: Spouse: Anna Gibbins --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Sex Name F Sarah Ann McLaughlin Born: Abt 1820 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Died: Place: Married: 08 May 1837 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (B-6) Spouse: Thomas S. Bassett --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources of Information: The Crowe Family, Reverend John Finley Crowe, Presbyterian Minister, Founder of Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana (written about 1855). Transcript provided by Barbara B. Thompson, Warren, Oregon postmarked (12 May 1993) excerpts; Clark County, Arkansas Marriage Records, Book A, page 76; Book B, page 6, 18; The Edmistons of Washington County, Arkansas, Allan S. Humphreys, June 1956, page 5. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other settlers in Bellevue Valley were ... Benjamin Crow (1803) ... on Big River; Walter Crow settled under the authority of Decelle; Curtis Morris (1803) made his home with William Ashbrook, but had a cabin on a grant and cultivated the land, married Polly Crow, daughter of Benjamin Crow ... in this valley also on the St. Francois ... Thomas and James McLaughlin ... A History of Missouri, Houck, Volume 1, page 372, 373. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... my father (Benjamin Crow) lived until the year 1802 ... (in Greene County, Tennessee), when he moved to what was then called the District of St. Genevieve, Upper Louisiana, now Washington County, Missouri. I had four brothers and six sisters. The two eldest, Elizabeth and Walter were born in Virginia. Ann, myself, Mary, Lydia, Robert, Benjamin, Nancy and James Rankin in Tennessee, and Rachel in Missouri. Elizabeth, Walter and Ann married in Tennessee. Elizabeth married Thomas McLaughlin, Walter married Margaret Hutchinson and Ann, James L. McLaughlin brother to Thomas. When my father moved to Missouri, they all went with him and settled in the same neighborhood in a beautiful cove called Bellevue. There my sister Mary married a man by the name of Curtis Morris. Robert and Benjamin both married after I left Missouri. The name of Robert's wife I have forgotten, but the name of Benjamin's was Nancy Daniels (Daniel). My sister Nancy married a cousin ... a son of Robert Gregg. In 1818 my father moved to Arkansas, having but three unmarried children, Lydia, James and Rachel, but the two McLaughlins and Morris and my brothers Walter and Benjamin moved about the same time to the same place ... Thomas McLaughlin raised three sons, Henry, William Finley and Benjamin Crowe, and three or four daughters. James McLaughlin raised but one child, a son called Thomas Jefferson ... The Crowe Family, Reverend John Finley Crowe, Presbyterian Minister, Founder of Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana (written about 1855). Transcript provided by Barbara B. Thompson, Warren, Oregon postmarked (12 May 1993) excerpts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Malinda Edmiston ... was born ca. 1804, in Tenn.; died before 1860, in Washington Co., Ark.; married, possibly in Clark Co., Ark., to Henry G. McLaughlin, born 1803; living age 56, in Washington Co., Ark. in 1860. They lived in Marrs Hill township, Washington Co., Ark. All of their children were born in Arkansas. Children of Henry and Malinda, surname McLaughlin: i. Elizabeth Ann, b. ca. 1828; living 1880, unmarried, as head of a family group consisting of two sisters and a niece (Emma Diven-age 19) in Cane Hill township. ii. Almeda, b. ca. 1830, in Pike Co., Ark.; living 1880 with her sister Elizabeth; died 1908 at home of her sister Margaret Ross. Member U.D.C. iii. Martha, b. ca. 1832. iv. Nancy, b. ca. 1834. v. Sarah, b. ca. 1836. vi. Jane, b. ca. 1840; m. 8 Jan. 1874, as his second wife, Judge Henderson Palmer Greene, son of Wesley and Catherine (Gentry) Greene, of Prairie Grove, Ark., b. ca. 1828 ... vii. Thomas, b. ca 1842, of Pike Co., Ark. viii. William, b. ca. 1844. ix. Margaret, b. ca 1845; living 1880 with sister Elizabeth; married Mr. Ross, of Prairie Grove, Ark ... The Edmistons of Washington County, Arkansas (Allan S. Humphreys), June 1956, page 5. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sketches of Antoine Township, Northwestern Part of Clark County, When a Territory: ... "North of Okolona, Walter Crow lived, the father of all the Crows, two miles, and several of his sons and daughters lived near him. The McLaughlins lived in the same neighborhood, all relatives, on the waters of Moore's and Love's creeks, tributaries of Terre Noire ... Thomas McLaughlin, the senior of all, lived on the East side of Antoine river, on the rise after going through the Antoine, on the old country road leading from Old Greenville to Brinley's ferry on the Missouri then to Washington, Hempstead county. Here I saw my first Catalpa tree. Finley, John and Jackson, sons of the senior slept on beds in the summer time tied to the limbs of these trees, very pleasant sleeping ... Near a mile on said road to Greenville, Walter C. McLaughlin, son of T. McLaughlin, found a bee tree in a remarkable large red oak, rather larger than he wished to attack with an axe, the bees were in the end of a large limb some ten feet from the main body of the tree, near 36 inches in circumferance, growing square off from the trunk. In order to get the honey, he cut a tall scaley bark hickory, standing near enough to lodge across the limb in which the bees were. Then he climbed the hickory tree, which lodged near the bees. This was said to be 50 feet or more from the ground. He was successful and made a safe trip. I have often passed by the tree. McLaughlin said it was the truth; other parties said the same." Dr. Willis S. Smith memoirs, originally published in the Gurdon Advocate, beginning in 1883, scrapbook with clippings, Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, Arkansas. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update 03.08.00 David Kelley 2000 FGR-0079.HTM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------