William Thomas McLAUGHLIN

  General Notes:

Photo: William Thomas McLaughlin, 1884-1958, was nicknamed ' Grover.' This good-looking man remained single. His photograph was taken at Foehlinger Studio, 518-520 Jefferson Street, Burlington, Iowa.

Original vintage photo from the collection of DeeAnna Allum Granston


1884 BIRTH of William Thomas McLaughlin ("Grover")

1895 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Des Moines County, Franklin Township (no date) ("William," age 9, born in "Des Moines County, Iowa")

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Yellow Springs Township (June 12) ("Grover," age 15, "Farm Labor," is "boarder" in the home of Morris and Mary Panther)

1903 DEATH of grandfather, Charles McLaughlin

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Des Moines County, Franklin Township, P. O. Sperry (no date) ("William McLaughlin Junior") (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, DesMoines County, Franklin Township (May 5) ("William T.," age 24, "Odd Jobs," with parents) (in 1910 William would actually have been about 26; in addition, his age in the 1915 census immediately below is "off," even though it is for the correct person)

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, DesMoines County, Mediapolis (no date) ("Wm.," age 25, born in Iowa, completed 9 years of grammar school, occupation, "Meat Cutter," earnings in 1914, $600, church affiliation, "Catholic," father born in Ireland)

1918 DRAFT Registration, Iowa, DesMoines County, Burlington (September 12) (William McLaughlin," age 34, born July 29, 1884, occupation, "Trucksmith, C.B.&O. Railroad," Burlington, DesMoines County, Iowa, contact, "Mary McLaughlin, 836 Columbia, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa)

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, DesMoines County, Burlington Township, Burlington (January 6) ("William," age 35, "Truckman, R.Road stops," is "boarder" in the household of Florence M. Smith)

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, DesMoines County, Burlington Township, Burlington (April 3) ("William T.," age 45, "Meat Cutter, Retail Shop," is in the household of his widowed mother, Mary A. "McLoughlin," age 72)

1941 DEATH of mother, Mary Ann (Counihan) McLaughlin

1958 DEATH, William Thomas McLaughlin, at 73 years 8 months 19 days


William did not marry



DESCRIPTION (William): "Medium height, medium build, blue eyes, brown hair" (World War I Draft Registration)




OBITUARY (William) from BURLINGTON HAWKEYE GAZETTE, Saturday, April 19, 1958:


William Thomas McLaughlin, 73, Florence Avenue, Burlington, Route 3, died at 4 p.m. Friday at Mercy hospital. He had been in failing health for several years.

McLaughlin had retired in 1949 after operating a grocery and meat market on North Main Street for many years. He was born July 29, 1884, in Franklin Township, the son of William and Mary Ann Counihan McLaughlin. He was a member of St. Paul's Catholic Church.

Surviving are two sisters, Agnes McLaughlin, Burlington, with whom he had made his home, and Mrs. Leonard W. Covert, Yucaipa, California; two brothers, James H. McLaughlin and Charles Joseph McLaughlin, both of Burlington; and a number of nieces and nephews. His parents and several sisters and brothers are dead.

Services will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday in St. Paul's Catholic Church. The cortege will leave Prugh's Chapel at 8:50 a.m. Burial will be in St. Mary's Catholic cemetery, Dodgeville. The rosary will be recited in Prugh's Chapel at 7:30 p.m. Monday.




PHOTOGRAPH:

Gravestone at St. Mary's Cemetery, Dodgeville, Des Moines County, Iowa, inscribed as follows:

WILLIAM McLAUGHLIN
JULY 29, 1884
APRIL 18, 1958




MISCELLANEOUS:

Original Funeral - Prayer card

William married.