The Laughlin and McLaughlin Family in Sonoma County, California

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The Laughlin and McLaughlin Family in Sonoma County, California

Prior to the state of California requiring death certificates to be filed, Sonoma County kept it's own death register.  The complete register is available to purchase as follows: "Sonoma County, California Death Records, 1873-1905, Second Edition. Sonoma County Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 2273, Santa Rosa, California 95404"  We are also told that you can purchase it from: "Heritage Books, Inc., 65 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157-5026, 1-800-876-6103"

The following McLaughlin's are listed in it, although we don't get the date of death, we can be certain that they all died between 1873 and 1905:

Surname	First Name	Age at Death
McLaughlin		82
McLaughlin	Annie A.	70
McLaughlin	Jane T.	70
McLaughlin	Mary N.	66

The following Laughlin's are listed:

Surname	First Name	Age at Death
Laughlin	Alpheus J.	27
Laughlin	James H.	72
Laughlin	Jas. Henry	35
Laughlin	John M.	68

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The Great Register of Voters 1890 Sonoma County has been published and includes the following McLaughlins:

McLaughlin	Caspar Wistar	45
McLaughlin	Charles Paul	21
McLaughlin	James	34
McLaughlin	James Patrick	25
McLaughlin	John Francis	31
McLaughlin	John Charles	21
McLaughlin	Joseph	21
McLaughlin	Michael	62
McLaughlin	Patrick	78
McLaughlin	Philip	21
McLaughlin	Thomas	28

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And the following Laughlin's

Laughlin	Albert Pernell	32
Laughlin	Alexander Douglas	33
Laughlin	Alfred Franklin	21
Laughlin	Charles William	30
Laughlin	Frank Wing	21
Laughlin	James Henry	24
Laughlin	James H.	68
Laughlin	John M.	63
Laughlin	John McGill	21
Laughlin	Joseph William	23
Laughlin	Joseph Porter	41
Laughlin	Leonidas	55
Laughlin	Madison	63
Laughlin	Oscar Wendell	22
Laughlin	Robert Lee	21
Laughlin	Samuel McK	27

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The General Land Office maintains a website where a search for McLaughlin in Sonoma yields the following:

MCLAUGHLIN, D J J	CA	Sonoma	11/10/1868	Assigned For Automation	1553	CACAAA 016370
MCLAUGHLIN, DORSEY H	CA	Sonoma	5/13/1952	Sacramento	042845	1135026
MCLAUGHLIN, MICHAEL	CA	Sonoma	5/1/1867	Assigned For Automation	433	CACAAA 015280
MCLAUGHLIN, MICHAEL	CA	Alameda	11/3/1876	Assigned For Automation	5784	CACAAA 092425
MCLAUGHLIN, MICHAEL	CA	Sonoma	4/20/1867	Assigned For Automation	97713	CACAAA 015279

And a search for Laughlin in Sonoma yields the following:

LAUGHLIN, EMILY E	CA	Sonoma	9/25/1888	Assigned For Automation	10629	CACAAA 017847
LAUGHLIN, JAMES H	CA	Sonoma	5/1/1867	Assigned For Automation	557	CACAAA 016347
LAUGHLIN, JOSEPH P	CA	Sonoma	2/5/1875	Assigned For Automation	4564	CACAAA 016288
LAUGHLIN, LEONIDAS	CA	Sonoma	5/1/1867	Assigned For Automation	528	CACAAA 017799
LAUGHLIN, MARSHALL N	CA	Sonoma	6/6/1873	Assigned For Automation	2248	CACAAA 017835

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History of Sonoma County [Cal.]: including its geology, topography, mountains, valleys and streams; with a full and particular record of the Spanish grants; its early history and settlement. Western Americana, frontier history of the trans-Mississippi West, 1550-1900, J. P. Munro-Fraser. Alley, Bowen & Co., 1880. 717 pages

"Laughlin James H Was born in Rutherford county Tennessee January 11 1819 Here he received his education and lived on a farm until nineteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to Van Buren county Iowa At this place Mr Laughlin married December 22 1853 Frances E Briggs a native of Windsor county Vermont He followed farming in this locality until April 1854 when in company with his wife mother and a brother and sister he crossed the plains to this State bringing with them a drove of two hundred head of cattle They arrived on Cache creek October 10 1854 Here Mr Laughlin engaged in farming until the following September when he came to Sonoma county and settled on his present place at Mark West station Here the subject of our sketch and his belongings camped using the same gear as that which had been brought into requisition on the plains Necessity compelled them thus to be housed for lumber had yet to be cut out of the forests and transported to the spot This was done in about three weeks and soon a simple clapboard house sprung into existence To day on the old site there stands a finer dwelling than is to be found in the county Mr Laughlin has large interests in Mendocino county and is also a large stockholder in the Santa Rosa Bank as well as being a director of that institution His living children are Sarah born January 20 1856 Annie A born January 23 1863 James H born July 24 1866 Frank W born November 15 1869 Grant A born July 23 1870 Clyde B born December 1 1871 Two children have died Francis M and Albert"