Lair, Clayton - Laughlin, Fannie cabinet card, postcard, and snapshot photos

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 15

Scope and content:

The photos in this folder are as follows:

An 1894 small cabinet card photo of Clayton Lair, by J. L. McCown, Lexington, Virginia.

A circa 1906 cabinet card photo of siblings Garland Lair, Howard Lair, and Leta Lair.

A circa 1890 small cabinet card photo of Henry Lam.

A circa 1891 cabinet card photo of Emma Laughlin, by Blackburn, Grand Forks, Dakota.

A circa 1894 cabinet card photo of Hugh Laughlin, Jr. and his sister Emma Laughlin, by P. E. Lynee, Crookston, Minnesota.

A circa 1930 snapshot photo of Brown Laughlin and a Mr. Wilkinson.

A circa postcard snapshot of Erma Laughlin, by

A circa 1890 cabinet card photo of Erma Laughlin and Minnie Bickle, by Blackburn, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

A 1909 postcard photo of Erma Laughlin, by J. Z. Dufresney, Portland, Oregon.

A circa small cabinet card photos of Fannie Laughlin of Carlisle, Kentucky.

Biographical / historical:

Minnie Bickle was a prominent educator in Augusta County, Virginia teaching primary school students in the Staunton school system. Mattie Elizabeth "Minnie" Bickle was born on August 25, 1875, in Staunton, Virginia. Her parents were Yeizer Morris Bickle (1831–1909) and Henrietta E. Alby Bickle (1845–1918). Minnie never married and passed away on July 17, 1951.

Clayton Lair was born on June 6, 1894 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Clayton was the son of John William Lair and Mary Susan Entsminger Lair. They raised Clayton and his siblings on a family farm in the Walker's Creek district of Rockbridge County, located just outside of Lexington. Clayton Lair married Margaret Huffman on October 4, 1916. Margaret was the daughter of Henry Huffman and Sarah Huffman, who were also a long standing farming family in the Rockbridge area.

Garland Ocie Lair (1903–1943) was the firstborn child of Robert Elmer Lair Sr. and Martha Jane Reynolds Lair. Garland passed away at a relatively young age during World War II. Leta Margaret Lair (1905–1982) was the second child and oldest daughter. She later married and went by Leta Lair Kyle. Howard Elijah Lair (1906–1980) was the third child. He lived a long life, passing away in 1980. These three children were the eldest siblings of what would eventually become a family of ten children.

William Henry Lam was a lifelong resident of Rockbridge County, Virginia, who spent decades working as a professional carpenter. He was born around 1869, married Mary Bliss, the daughter of Mason Bliss, a resident of the area. and died on April 25, 1936.

Emily Frances "Fannie" Hedger was issued a marriage bond on January 15, 1848, and legally married James Jesse Laughlin the next day on January 16, 1848, in Harrison County, Kentucky Marriages. James and Fannie lived and farmed on the border country between Harrison, Bourbon, and Nicholas counties. Carlisle, Kentucky, the county seat of Nicholas County, served as their central hub for business, and many of their descendants settled directly there. James and Fannie had a large family. Fannie was part of the prominent pioneering Hedger family that populated the Harrison/Nicholas County area.

Fannie Laughlin, Mrs. Hugh Laughlin was the married name of Fannie Alexander Laughlin, the granddaughter of the Carlisle, Kentucky grandmother Fannie Alexander. Fannie was born in 1868 and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia, but traveled extensively to Carlisle, Kentucky, during the summers in the late 1910s and 1920s. Fannie visited her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Fannie Alexander in Nicholas County, who met her at the train station in Maysville, Kentucky. As she entered adulthood, Fannie married Hugh Laughlin in the mid 1930s. Fannie Alexander Laughlin was the daughter of James Laughlin and Sallie Alexander Laughlin. She passed away in 1937.

Hugh Brown Laughlin, Jr., born in 1892 and his older sister Emma S. Laughlin, born in May 1888, were the children of Hugh Brown Laughlin Sr. and Erma Albertson Starr. They married in 1886. Hugh, Sr. and Erma moved out west shortly after their marriage and settled in Minnesota by early 1888, which is where Emma and Hugh, Jr. were both born. The family moved further west into North Dakota before 1900, where they established a homestead. Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Crookston, Minnesota, are only about 25 miles apart. They eventually pushed even further west, settling permanently in the Pacific Northwest, Spokane, Washington area, later in life.

Access and use