My Genealogy Hound

Amos Laughlin is a native farmer of Osage County, Mo., and was born in 1830. His parents were John M. and Magdaline (Alckire) Laughlin, the former of whom, of Irish descent, was born in South Carolina in 1799, and was a farmer by occupation; about 1818, with his father, William Laughlin, he located in Osage County, where Chamois is now situated. John M. married and settled near the old homestead, but afterward removed to two miles northwest of Linn, where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1880. Magdaline Laughlin was born in Virginia in 1803, and died in 1877. Of the ten children in this family, four are living, viz.: Benton, Amos, Ivah, wife of Thomas J. Robinson, and Jennie, who married James Reynolds. Amos Laughlin lived at home with his parents until 1878, when he married Sophronia King, who was born in Georgia in 1839, and is a daughter of John M. and Phoebe (Comb) King, natives respectively of Lincoln and Knox Counties, Tenn., the former born in 1808 and the latter in 1809. The parents of Mrs. Laughlin first removed to Washington County, Mo., in 1848, locating in Linn Township, Osage County, where the mother died in 1854, and the father removed to Texas County in 1861, where he died in 1863. In March, 1881, Mr. Laughlin removed to his present farm of 160 acres near Linn, and is an industrious farmer. The Laughlin family is one of the oldest and best known in the county, and our subject is one of the few elderly men now living in Osage County who claim that county as their birth place. Mrs. Laughlin is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Laughlin is a Democrat politically.