Elizabeth LAUGHLIN

Father: John LAUGHLIN
Mother: Jane MATHEWS

Family 1: John SHARP

  1. Jane SHARP
  2. Elizabeth SHARP
  3. Anne SHARP
  4. Sarah SHARP
  5. Margaret SHARP
  6. Marianne SHARP
  7. Melissa SHARP
  8. Clarissa SHARP
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 _John LAUGHLIN _|
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Notes

Updated December 12, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Laughlin, Samuel Hervey, "A Diary of Public Events and Notices of My Life and Family and Of My Private Transactions including Studies, Travels, Readings Correspondence, Business Anecdotes, Miscellaneous Memoranda of Men, Literature, Etc From January 1st, 1845 to August, 1845 and Sketch of my Life from Infancy"

"John LAUGHLIN, my great grandfather, came from Ireland, with his family, consisting of three sons, John, James, and Alexander, James being the eldest, and Alexander the youngest, and three daughters, Jane, Elizabeth and Margaret, and on arriving in the then Colonies, at Philadelphia, about the year 1740, removed first to Chester County and then to the vicinity of where Harrisburg now stands in Pennsylvania, now Dauphin County I believe. About the year 1760, as Benjamin SHARP, my great uncle believes, (see his letter to me in my books of letters of 4 January, 1845, written from Warren County, Missouri) and about the year 1764, as my father remembers from family tradition, my great grandfather and his family, and many of his connections, intermarriages with the SHARPs, DUNCAN's, etc. having been formed, removed from Pennsylvania to Virginia."

"Elizabeth, my grandfathers’ sister married John SHARP of Sullivan, Co. Tennessee. They were married early after or about the time of the removals of the families from Pennsylvania... The place where they then lived, was at that day, believed to be in what is now, and which then included all East Tennessee, Washington Co. Tennessee, then North Carolina. By an honorable life of frugality and industry as a farmer, [John SHARP] made a large fortune. His wife [Elizabeth LAUGHLIN], who died before him, was deranged for some years before her death. He had a number of daughters-Sally, married to Thomas McCHESNEY of Washington, Va. now both dead; Ann, married to Dreron LONGACRE of Sullivan Co., Tenn., both alive and surrounded by a numerous family of married and prosperous children; Margaret, married to the late Col. George W. CRAIG of Knox Co. Ky.; Marianne, married to Thomas McCONNEL of Washington Co. Va. now dead though her husband survives and is married again; Clarrissa, married to Mr. COWAN, of Sullivan Co. Tenn, who is, I believe also dead. He had no sons."

(2) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Elizabeth LAUGHLIN
- Gender: female
- Birth Year: 1748
- Spouse Name: John SHARP
- Spouse Birth Place: PA
- Spouse Birth Year: 1745
- Marriage Year: 1771

(3) Mostert family records, August 4, 2000.