From: Mat Boyd
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 4:04 PM
Subject: GOLDRUSH MOST WANTED - LAUGHLIN
I am searching for the 'lost' years my great grandfather, James Cost Laughlin,
was in CA. Per his obituary, he help organize an 'ox train' with his friends in
Logan Co, IL about 1852. They set out for CA, and arrived safely. He is supposed
to have made a large sum of money (for that time frame) of at least $5,000. He
was said to have had a butcher shop and boarding house, maybe other supplies
besides meat. He went cross country once, around the Horn once, over the isthmus
of Panama at least once. He was very impressed with Panama and had a hotel there
for a while. Got Yellow Fever (?) and was sent back to the northern states to
recover. Married my Great Grandmother in 1857, and off again, to Kansas
territory that time.
Mat Boyd
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