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OM TIME RESIDENT.;C. O. Trimble Cekdjrntes Today) His S3tii Rirth Anniversary-SUAnResiding with his son. Monroe Trimble and family, three nndone-iHa half miles northeast of Windfall, the .Columbus 0. Trimble today celehra- ed ted the eighty-fifth anniversary of . of his birth. The day* was spent, very i • ' quietly on account of his very fee-, fro .ble condition. - ; farMr. Trimble-was born February. wb 27, 1S2S, in Grayson county, iVa. fat His fat her, John Trimble served in Mr the war of J812 as camaia and his hu; grandfather Trimble,-who had come am to this country from. Ireland and thr settled in Washington Co., Va.., in net the early days of the colonies was a *Cri revolutionary patriot, serving his coj country with distinction, vand three incof his brothers were killed in thi3.;to.war. ' waMr. Trimble’s mother vas Susan .-r« Knuckles, ' daughter . of Cfmrle* i! Knuckles, of Grayson county, Va.Mr. Trimble was one of thirteen Te: children, • he being tho youngest. 1 Twelve of these children grew to: vivUa-c:Mal■ yesheder•witho\2' manhood and • womanhood,' but allchnMr;GwEx.are now deceased with, the* excep- ,ltacue):tion of himself, and George Tnm-»:ble, living with his (jauglitpr. Mrs. * j1 John Terwilliger south of - Wind-• . % r1 fall. ‘The parents died in Virginia, his mother, when lie was only, a babe in arms, and his father in/1SC5 at 5 the ago of 93...caitolose1 • •sioIn IS43 Mr. Trimble left Virginia $nd came to Indiana, settling atjGreonshurg. Decatur county, wherefritofad’he had brothers living. Ho was 15 ?. years old at this time and as school ['.privilege* had I been meager before jhe ilt;ic.k advantage r»f iho schools at- ’ Greeiislsurg. aUondijig school ■there. i-\ .In TS!0, Mr] Trimble’ was joined . r ; in wedlock io Miss Elizabeth' MK’nr-! inick. of Docanir county. Ten ch.M-i • droit. tern to this uuieti, nine ,: boys and one girl au,d of this number ^ ;the following are still living:. V.'il-rUians and Monroe, of near Windfall;insthe‘yrMaj! Fliner, of Tipion: Alva, of I.ogaus- * ‘f- port, and Mrs. Delos Platt. of Sway; ^ or Kansas, llis first wife died in ^ 1mS78 and ho ^:as nmrrieiLthe sec- ^ o:id time to Miss Julia Jackson: of ^ Ohio, but.' who was a resident of Wind tall at the time of ;tlieir mar- ^ riage. -To this union- four rhiJrtijen were born, three of them now living. ‘ Mrs. Fred Allen, or Richmond, Ken- )(\ neth Trimble, residinc on the old homo, place near Windfall andCharles Trimble, of Richmond. |His second wife died in 1909., 1Mr. Trimble purchased llfO .acres ^ of land in this county after coming here in J S7G Laler he purchased ^ SO more anil now owns 240 acres of. ^ the finest Tipton county .land. Tip helped ta mn John Morgan out. of-.-.j the state in the closing days of tin** i ‘ 1 Bwar Jriid has always been a strong. ^ advocate ot the union. He refers ® we, hb army record with great pride, it being seven days chasing Morgan in ‘ that famous raid. * r, Tn political faith he Tins always ' - been a Republican and-cast his first ^ vote for General Zaehariah Taylor for president. .Mr. Trimble is a man of very pro-\ pounced character and oJ stronjwi:e... . ifstdconservative views, and a man 01- ^integrity in all of his dealings. He{‘united with the Presbyterian church ^ •[when a young man and has since then adheredno that faith. ■’ t r^?VHe lias been in very feeble health '? .a7 sta'for about five, years. He suffered aperstroke of paralysis about five yearsago which' waS'Hhe result;of injuries e . ? i. ■ • ••valreceived in a fall more.tljan,.twenty-. ^ . tfour years ago, and his illness dates. ^fromrtihat time.. • 1 • v..- ?.. •’• .• ... •• -'.raa' — ■ • ,-V;- • v.;' J Wa;Y rriiri?. icrvrrfw :
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Tipton Tribune
Tipton, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 27, 1913
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