Elizabeth Laughlin McSparran Taylor 1832 - 1892

LAUGHLIN, MCSPARRAN, TAYLOR

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Date: 2/11/2021 at 17:49:08

Sioux Valley News
Correctionville, Iowa
14 January 1892

Elizabeth Laughlin was born in Hendricks Co., Indiana, August 3, 1832. She was converted and united with the Baptist church at the age of fifteen years. Married William McSparran, May 4, 1851, with whom she lived until his death January 9, 1874. Ten children were born to this union, five of whom survive. On May 4, 1882, she married N.F. Taylor, who died May 5, 1883. She with her family moved from Illinois, which had been her home for twenty years to Union Twp., Woodbury Co., Iowa, September 1868, and went on a homestead which practically was her home the remainder of her life.

Death from heart failure came suddenly to her at the home of her mother in Correctionville January 6, 1892. The funeral services, conducted by Rev. Lothian, occurred in the M.E. church, and the body laid to rest in the family lot in the Union Ridge Cemetery (now called Good Hope Cemetery) on the 8th.

Besides her mother and son Charles, who live in Correctionville, the relatives and friends from abroad who came to the funeral are J.S. McSparran, Sloan, Iowa, James McSparran, Jessup, Iowa, Luvica Richardson and husband, Fremont, Nebraska, Joseph McSparran, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Mr. E. Stratton, an old family friend of Washta.

The deceased had endured the many hardships of a pioneer life in addition to bringing up her large family of children after the death of her husband. Amid it all she maintained a Christian character, and left an influence for good that will be felt by her children and neighbors while the years roll by.