Ralph Belden Trout (died 1912)

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Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 1/6/2010 at 19:25:20

Maquoketa Excelsior, November 8, 1912

DIED-At one-thirty, October 28, 1912, in the early hours of the morning, Ralph Belden Trout, son and Mr. and Mrs. George W. Trout, passed on into that far country, where free and unhampered, he can go on living and working.
In California, where he had achieved business success, his keen and practical mind, his humor and cheerfulness, his high moral standards inspired respect in all who knew him. A few days ago he said to one of his family, “What people need in this world is not more criticism and condemnation, but more love and more faith and more confidence in one another.” The last words spoken but a moment before his going were: ”I live and breathe and have my being in God.” And so he left those who loved him sorrowing and alone, but comforted in the thought that his strong, brave life goes on.