Thomas McLaughlin

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Family Group Record                 0079
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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:         
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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)
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Children                   6 children identified
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                           Moved to Missouri 1803
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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                    Moved to Clark County, Arkansas 1818
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 5. Sex Name
     M  Andrew Jackson McLaughlin
        Born:       Abt 1818    Place: Clark County, Arkansas
        Died:                   Place: 
        Married:                Place: 
        Spouse:  Anna Gibbins
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 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
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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.
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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.
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... 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.
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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.
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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.
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Update 03.08.00               David Kelley 2000                FGR-0079.HTM
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