TRUSTY, Enoch Taylor 1833-1914

TRUSTY, VAN SICKLE, HUFFMAN, PARRISH, GERHOLT, GERHOLD, YOUNG

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 6/22/2014 at 21:13:43

[Nashua Reporter, Thursday, April 23, 1914, Nashua, Iowa]

Enoch Taylor Trusty was born at Shawneetown, White County, Ill., January 13, 1833, and died at his home in Ionia, April 16, 1914, aged eighty-one years, three months, and three days.

On October 25, 1854 he was united in marriages to Miss Sarah Vansickle, of Shellsburg, Ill., and to this union were born seven children, three of whome are still living.

In the fall of 1855 he came with his wife to Iowa, locating on a farm one mile north of Ionia where he resided for 30 years. After that he resided in Ionia. His first wife died Feb 11, 1870 leaving her husband and six children, one daughter dying in infancy. On April 28, 1871, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Anna Huffman. To this union seven children were born, six of them still living. One son died about a year ago.

The deceased is survived by his wife and nine children: Andrew, of Bemidji, Minn., Alonzo and William, of Waterloo, Vernon, of Ocheydan, Raymond of California, Mrs. Alice Gerholt, Lester and Leo, of Ionia and Mrs. Emma Parrish, of Reinbeck; also left three brothers, 27 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at the Congregational church in Ionia, Friday, April 17, at 2 o'clock p.m., Rev. C. H. Moxie officiating. Interment was in Chickasaw Cemetery.

Mr. Trusty was a member of the Ionia Congregational church, becoming a member when that church was organized some thirty years ago. Besides being a consistent Christians, Mr. Trusty was one of the upright citizens of Ionia and universally looked up to by his large circle of friends.

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Enoch Taylor Trusty was born at Shawneetown, White County, Illinois,January 13, 1833, and died at his home in Ionia, April 16, 1914, aged eighty-one years, three months, and three days.

On October 25, 1854 he was united in marriages to Miss Sarah Vansickle, of Shellsburg, Ill., and in 1855, they came to this county and located one mile north of Ionia and he lived there until the fall of 1906 when he moved to Ionia.

On February 11, 1870, his wife died leaving him to mourn her death and to care for six children: Andrew, Horace, Alonzo, Calvin, Frank, and Alice, one daughter Catherine, died in infancy. April 28, 1871, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Anna [Emily Ann] Huffman and seven children were the fruit of this union; William, Aldon, Vernon, Raymond, Emma, Lester, and Leo. The children, Andrew, Bemidji, Minn.; Alonzo and William, Waterloo; Vernon Ocheydan, Raymond,Lancaster, Cal; Mrs. Emma Parrish Reinbeck, Mrs. Alice Gerhold, Lester, and Leo of Ionia; also a step-daughter Mrs. Alfretta Young, of Chickasaw, three brothers, twenty-seven grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren, and he has left them the heritage of an unblemished life, a good name.

Deceased was a charter member of the Congregational church at Ionia and took a deep interest in the work not only of the local church, but the work of the Christian church as a whole.

E. T. Trusty was a man of the most sterling integrity, his word was always as good as a bond; no quibbling, no trying to make his word that he gave yesterday appear something different the next day. Honest and square all the time to all men. It would be hard to find a man in the county who has an unkind word to say of Enoch T. Trusty. His loyalty was never in question either as a husband, father, friend, or citizen. His was a clean wholesome life, he did not wear his Christianity as a profession; nor use it as a cloak, but made it a business in which he felt at all times a deep interest.

Kind and loving to his wife, solicitous for his children, ardently desiring the best for them and making the home a desirable place for them all, a place not to be forgotten, but cherished all throughput their lives. Warm in his friendships and being true he held the friends of half a century just as firm as when the ties were first made.

He met the difficulties of life with courage for he had a living faith in God and his fellow man; he bore losses with equanimity and kept right on doing the things which make for prosperity and happiness. Quiet and unassuming, he sought the honors of a good name rather than great riches and has certainly succeeded splendidly.

A good man has passed down the valley full of years and good works; he sleeps quietly after the long journey and the Father he loved and served welcomed him home.

The funeral was held from the Cong. church, in Ionia, Friday, April 17, 1914, services conducted by the pastor, Rev. C. H. Moxie, his text being:"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith," and the interment was in Cedar View Cemetery on the banks of the little Cedar a lovely place to rest after the trials, struggles, and labors of life are over.