Levi Laughlin 1837-1921

LAUGHLIN, CALL, METCALF, CORDILLA

Posted By: Phyllis Hazen (email)
Date: 8/22/2020 at 12:10:32

The Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Saturday, 12 February, 1921, page 2

IN MEMORIAM

Levi Laughlin, son of John and Harriett Call Laughlin, was born Sep. 17, 1837, at Crooks Corners, Penn.

In his early life the family left Pennsylvania and settled in northern Ohio where he grew to manhood.

When the civil war broke out he enlisted in the 49th Ohio Infantry and served through the war, he served as sergeant, was wounded twice and a prisoner in the Andersonville prison.

He was a constant reader and a man well informed, a great Bible student. After the civil war was over he united with the Christian church through the ministry of an uncle, Dana Call.

The last seventeen years he made his home with a nephew, Harvey Metcalf, and died at his home in Standford, S. D., Feb. 1, 1921.

Uncle Levi is the last to depart from this life of a family of seven children. Cyrus, a corporal in the civil war was wounded, and carried a bullet in his head nine months but died about eleven days before the close of the war. Melissa Cordilla, Clara, Hudson and Dana.

Thus another family has been transplanted, and reminds us that this world is only for a time.