This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LAUGHLIN, DOUGLAS Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tk.2ADE/2265.2 Message Board Post: Mr. J. H. Laughlin is severely afflicted. Mrs. Laughlin has been very low with consumption for some months and to add to his trouble, about a week ago his little seven-year-old boy fell and fractured his skull, from the effects of which he died on Tuesday morning (April 3, 1883). Mr. Laughlin and family have the earnest sympathy of the entire community. Verily, this is a world of affliction, and it sometimes seems almost cruel that the human race was created. But perhaps it will be satisfactorily explained in "the sweet by and by." Submitter's note: The child mentioned was Frank Robert Laughlin, son of John Henry Laughlin and Mary Douglas.