In a Feb. 18, 2022 email message, Paul Decker reported that he has collected the necessary documentation for the Century Farm application and plans to submit it to the Ohio Department of Agriculture. Paul commented, "We still own the farm. Grandpa Theodore "Doe" Decker and his wife Mary bought the farm from the Beckett sisters in 1916. My Dad got the farm, after Grandpa died in 1966, buying out his brother Art's half. Martha and I bought the farm from Mom and Dad In 1989. We have since put it in a Trust. Our son Doug and some of his family live there presently. The trust is set up so that our grandchildren, Ciara, Caden, and Corrynn, will be the recipients in the end."

The following message was submitted by Marvin Russell, on March 7, 2022: "I have been meaning to tell you that the Laughlin farm is a Century Farm. Uncle Howard's father built the home in 1905. Howard and Roberta (Russell) Laughlin carried on farming it and the farm now belongs to Donna Jean (Laughlin) Blackwell." THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE MEMOIRS OF MIAMI VALLEY - published in 1869: William G. Laughlin, owns and operates a productive farm of eighty acres lying in section 18, Milford township. Mr. Laughlin was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, February 15, 1864, a son of David and Mary (Stewart) Laughlin. His parents, natives of Ireland, emigrated to the United States as young people and met and were married at Cincinnati. Some years afterward, they removed to a farm near Mechanicsburg, Ohio, where the father carried on operations until his retirement. This highly respected old citizen is a veteran of the Civil war, having served in the Union army, and been with General Sherman on his famous March to the Sea, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his worthy wife, who died in July, 1873, were the parents of four children, of whom only William G. survives. William G. Laughlin had but scant opportunity to attend school as a lad, for at the time of his mother's death, when he was only nine and one-half years of age, he went to live with his grandfather Stewart and his educational training was somewhat neglected. However, he made the most of his opportunities and today is a man well informed upon all essential matters. At the age of nineteen years, he left his grandfather's home and went to Osage, Kans., where he remained for several years engaged in farming, then coming to Butler county, where he purchased his present farm. He has made all the improvements on this property and is engaged successfully in general farming. He has not confined his interest to his own personal affairs, for he has been found ever-ready to lend his aid to whatever promised to work out for the ultimate good of the community, and, by his own example, has done much to advance and improve the standard of farming in his neighborhood. He is independent in his political affiliation and has never been a seeker after personal preferment. He and the members of his family belong to the United Presbyterian church at Oxford. Mr. Laughlin was married in 1905 to Anna Luella Finlay, of Milford township, a daughter of John and Mary J. (Todd) Finlay, of County Downs, Ireland. After coming to the United States, Mr. and Mrs. Finlay settled in Milford township, Butler county, where the father followed farming until his death in 1905, his widow surviving until 1914 and passing away in the faith of the Presbyterian church. They had eight children : Anna Luella, who became Mrs. Laughlin; Robert, of Collinsville, Ohio, who married Lucinda Harden; Edward H., a farmer of Milford township, who married Nora Blount; Alberta, a teacher in Milford township; Charles, a farmer in the same township; John and Margaret, who are single and residents of Milford township; and one child who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin are the parents of two children: Mary Chastine, born November 24,1906; and Howard Stewart, born July 5, 1908.

The following message was submitted by Marvin Russell, on March 8, 2022: “Fred, - I did some more checking and Howard's father, William, purchased the property in January,1899 and he died around 1940. His wife passed the 80 acres on to Howard and Roberta in 1944, after Howard's mother, Anna Luella (Finlay) Laughlin passed away.  There was a Mrs. Finlay that substituted as a teacher, when I was in Grade school (at Collinsville, Ohio) and that must have been some of Anna's relation. Donna Jean (Laughlin) Blackwell, daughter of Howard and Roberta (Russell) Laughlin, said it was relation to her.” - Marvin.