Word was received here Tuesday morning that Mrs. Anna McLaughlin died in the night, at the Lincoln Sanitarium. It was a great shock to her family and friends. She went to Lincoln for an operation some time ago, and up to the last, all reports were favorable for an early recovery. The remains arrived here Wednesday and the funeral is likely to be held in a day or so. She leaves quite a family of grown children and many grandchildren and other relatives besides a host of friends. Her husband, the late Robert McLaughlin, died here in Moorefield a few years ago. They were homesteaders in this vicinity, and were among the most successful and respected pioneers of Frontier Co.

The Stockville Faber 38(23) Thursday Evening, March 9, 1922

Last week we mentioned the death of Mrs. Robt. McLaughlin. We herewith give the obituary as read at the funeral, which occurred last Saturday afternoon, March 11th, 1922.

Anna Eliza Wood, the fourth of a family of fourteen children, was born near Lebanon, Indiana, Apr. 13, 1860.

She came with her parents to Daniels Co., Mo. in the fall of 1866, where she grew to womanhood and was married to Robert McLaughlin at Trenton, Mo. Mar. 17, 1881. They emigrated to Frontier Co., Neb. in the spring of 1886 and settled on a farm near Moorefield. To them were born seven children, David Henry, James Robert, Emerson Olee, Guilford Royal and Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Welch, of Moorefield, Earnest Albert of Sundance, Wyo. and Mrs. Zoa Belle Hamilton, of Bridgeport, Neb., all of whom were present at the funeral.

Beside these, she is survived by twenty-two grandchildren, three brothers, four sisters and a great number of other relatives and friends who mourn the loss of one so dear by nature and by grace, the brothers being William, of Gilmore City, Mo., Thomas and Samuel, of Curtis, Neb. and the sisters, Mrs. Melissa Kendall, of Pueblo, Colo., Mrs. Fannie Mitchell, of Goodland, Kans., Mrs. Sarah Curtis, of Grover, Colo. and Mrs. Rose Scott, of Jamesport, Mo.

They left the farm Jan. 1, 1912 and lived the remainder of their days in Moorefield, where he departed this life Oct. 6, 1912.

At the age of 19 she united with the Christian Church in Mo., in which affiliation she remained until they came to Neb. where she became a member of The Church of God, in which she remained faithful to the end, which occurred in the sanitarium at Lincoln, under surgical operation, Mar. 7, 1922, at the age of 61 yr. 10 mo. 24 da.

She was a very devoted wife and mother, so kind and patient that she was greatly beloved in the home, and her faithfulness and Christian grace endeared her to all she met, so that she is beloved and mourned by all who knew her.

Funeral services were held in the M. E. Church at Moorefield by J. W. Williams of Belle Plaine, Ia. and burial was made in the Moorefield cemetery.

The Stockville Faber 38(25):1 Thursday Evening, March 23, 1922