Jonas Laughman LAST NAME: Laughman FIRST NAME: Jonas MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN: Abt 1846 DIED: Dec 1896 BURIED: 13 Dec 1896 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Farmer, Engineer at Indian School BIRTH PLACE:  Illinois DEATH PLACE: Chemawa, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  IOOF - Jonas Laughlin [sic], age 52, born in Illinois, died at Chemawa, Oregon of pneumonia, an engineer at Indian school, leaves a wife and 6 children. 1880 IL CENSUS - Jonas Laughman, age 34, farmer born in Illinois, is enumerated with wife Ellen, age 25, b. Illinois, and Edna, age 11, Edward, age 7, Dollie, age 6, and William, age 2, all born in Illinois; 1895 - Jonas Laughman, age 49, b. Illinois, engineer, Catholic, voter, light, 6' 210 lbs, also enumerated are Ellen, age 46, postmaster, and Dollie, age 20, Phillip, over 10 & under 18, Florence, age 9, and Violet, age 6. DISCREPANCY - Name is Laughlin in IOOF - Laughman in 1880 and 1895 census records, and Lauflin in obit. OBITUARY:  DIED OF PNEUMONIA.  Jonas Lauflin, Engineer of the Indian School. Friday night Jonas Lauflin, who has for several years been engineer of the Chemawa Indian school, died of pneumonia, after about a week’s illness.  Deceased was about 52 years of age, and came to Oregon from Illinois. He leaves a wife and six children, who reside at the school, there being three boys and three girls.  The funeral will be held Sunday forenoon, probably under the auspices of the masonic fraternity, of which he was a member. The remains will be brought to Salem on the 11 o’clock train, and interred in Rural cemetery.  Capital Journal 12 Dec 1896 4:7 INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  LR  IOOF Register of Burials  1880 IL CENSUS (Edgar Co., Symmes Twp., ED 105, sheet 28D)  1895 Oregon, Marion Co., CENSUS, Vol II, pg 41 (WVGS, 2001)  CJ 12 Dec 1896 4:7 CONTACTS:  LOT: 372 SPACE: 3 SW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: