Mrs. Ann Laughlin, A Native of Ireland

This brief obituary for Mrs. Ann Laughlin appeared in the Sandusky Star Journal on August 1, 1917. Mrs. Ann Laughlin (sometimes spelled Loughlin) was born in Ireland, and moved to Sandusky, Ohio in 1849. In her later years, she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Catherine Martin, on Shelby Street. Mrs. Laughlin died on July 31, 1917, at the age of 68. Her son, William T. Martin, told many stories about his beloved "Gram" in the book OUR OLD TOWN AS SHE USED T' BE, published in 1959 by the Pageant Press. He tells of stories his grandmother told him, in which she comforted the sick and mourning people of Sandusky during the cholera epidemic. During the Underground Railroad days, she took food to fugitive slave who were hiding in an old barn near the old B&O Railway yard in Sandusky. To view  this book, and learn more about Mrs. Ann Laughlin, visit the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. Though I could not determine the exact location, Mrs. Laughlin was buried in the St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Sandusky, Ohio.