McLAUGHLIN, Sarah Albertine Bishop 1848-1921

MCLAUGHLIN, BISHOP

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 1/8/2006 at 12:01:13

Another Pioneer Woman Called to Rest

Mrs. A. R. McLaughlin,
Mother of County Superintendent
Died Last Thursday

Mrs. A. R. McLaughlin passed away last Thursday, May 19, at 10:45 p.m. after a lingering illness.
She had been an invalid for the past six years, since stricken with paralysis that length of time ago.

Sarah Albertine Bishop-McLaughlin, was born at Spencertown, New York, on September 10, 1948, the eldest of four children born to John H. and Elizabeth Bishop.

In 1856, at the age of 12, she came with her parents and a brother and sister to Osage. The trip from McGregor to Osage was made overland. The family settled on a farm four miles east and one mile north of the city, where they lived for several years, afterward moving to Osage.

She attended the Cedar Valley seminary while the same was held in the court house.

On January 5, 1871, she was united in marriage to Archibald Robert McLaughlin, by the Rev. Alva Brush. One year after their marriage they moved to the present home in the 4th ward, thus living forty-nine years in this one home. Last year their golden wedding anniversary was celebrated in this home.

Three children were born to them; two little boys, who died in infancy, and one daughter, Blanche who is now superintendent of schools of the county. Two brothers, J.E. Bishop, of Pomona, Calf. and E. L. Bishop of Seattle, Wash., are left, with the husband and daughter to mourn the passing and rever the memory of a noble woman.

Mrs. McLaughlin was a woman retiring by nature, a lover of home and family. Hers was the typical pioneer experience of early Iowa settlers. Coming to this county when Osage was barely started, she watched the making of a wonderful history of development. For years all the intercourse she and her neighbors had with the outside world was via the overland route to McGregor. All the farm products sold were hauled away to that distant point by wagon, and all the necessities of life, not homegrown, were brought in the same way.

During her earlier years she was an attendant of the Baptist church.

The funeral service was held at the home Sunday afternoon at 2:30, the Rev. M. D. Mack an old friend of the family, officiating.

[Mitchell County Press -- May 25, 1921]