Martha Laughlin (abt. 1769 - abt. 1812)

Born about 1769 in Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of George Lee Singleton Sr — married 1789 in Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia

Descendants

Died about 1812 at about age 43 in Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia

Biography

Samuel Hervey Laughlin:

Martha, another sister of my father, married Maj. George Singleton, who removed at an early time from Sullivan Co. Tenn. to Wayne Co. Ky. He lived there many years, much esteemed, and represented the District in which Wayne County was included, one term of four years in the State Senate, at, or before the close of which, about the year 1809 or 1810, he removed to Louisiana, Parish of Oppeloosas or Attakapos. He succeeded well there, on the Lafourche I think as a sugar planter, but he and his wife both died soon after the late war. He was a Philadelphian by birth, and inherited from an uncle, a batchelor of Blountville, Tennessee, who was all his days a merchant's clerk, a good property and a fine library of the best old English standard works. The uncle's name was John Williams. From this library, in those day a rare thing in Western Virginia, East Tennessee, or Kentucky south of Green River, he became a cultivated and well informed man. He left several sons, with whom I have no acquaintance. One named George, I think is still in Louisana. Another, Owen I believe to be his name, came back to Wayne, and possibly still lives there. He married a daughter of John Laughlin, a son of my father's uncle Alexander L. who married a Miss Newton in Virginia or East Tennessee and removed to Knox Co. Ky. first, and then to Wayne, and finally perhaps to Red River, Louisana.

Sources

• Laughlin, Samuel Hervey, A Diary of Public Events and Notices of My Life and Family and of My Private Transactions (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).