This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LAUGHLIN, DOUGLAS Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tk.2ADE/2265.6 Message Board Post: DIED. LAUGHLIN-In Chicago, Jan. 9th, 1892 of grip and internal hemorrhage, Elmer A. Laughlin, aged twenty-three years and about two months. Elmer was the only remaining son by his first wife of J.H. Laughlin, five having followed each other to the land of rest in a few years. It is a crushing affliction and Mr. Laughlin and the sisters have the warmest sympathy of all our people. Elmer was sick but a short time, having had an attack of grip but recovered from it to go to work again. He was taken worse Wednesday afternoon and died the following Saturday afternoon. Miss Lillian was telegraphed for at Des Moines and arrived in Chicago a few hours before his death. She arrived here with the remains on Monday morning and the funeral was held from the Congregational church at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, the interment being in the Minert cemetery. Elmer, like all the other brothers, was an exemplary young man, greatly respected by all who know him. He had a good position with a wholesale firm in Chicago, and his prospects were as bright as any young man could wish. But such are the uncertainties of life. While the old must die the young may also die. "In the midst of life we are in death," and if there remain anything to do to prepare for the change there should be no delay. In this case there is no doubt but the end was peace, and that beyond the winter storms of this uncertain and precarious life, if there is a harbor where there is "rest, sweet rest," our young friend is far better off than we who remain to buffet with the storms a little longer. Peace be with him. Submitter's note: He was the son of John Henry Laughlin and his first wife Mary Douglas.