Louisa Fischer Trout (1841-1901)

FISCHER, TROUT, BOWEN, CHANDLER, CLAPPE, KUCHEMAN, BOWEN, WRIGHT

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/20/2011 at 08:25:36

Maquoketa Excelsior, Maquoketa, Iowa, August 30, 1901

OBITUARY-

TROUT- Mrs. Louisa Fischer Trout passed away at her home in Maquoketa, at 3 a.m., Monday, August 26, 1901, which was her sixtieth birthday, after a sickness of about five years standing. The citizens of Maquoketa were saddened Monday by the intelligence that Mrs. Louisa Trout had passed over to the great majority. Mrs. Trout returned on Saturday night from Dubuque where she had been under treatment for cancer. In her exhausted condition the journey was too great for her and she gradually sank until 3 a. m. yesterday morning she peacefully breathed her last. Her husband and son Frank were both at her bedside when she summons came to depart. She was for many years a valued member of the Baptist church.

Mrs. Trout was born near Tiffin, Ohio, August 26, 1841, and came to Maquoketa in 1863. Two years later in September 1864 she was married to Frank Trout, and here they have lived ever since. About five years ago symptoms of cancer began to appear. Dr. A. B. Bowen treated her at the time and it was hoped that the trouble was over. Last winter, however, unmistakable signs of the old disease became manifest and on May 26th this year she underwent an operation in Dubuque. From this she seems never to have recovered. Last week alarming symptoms of weakness and heart failure set in and her husband, who had returned to Maquoketa, was hastily called to Maquoketa was hastily called to Dubuque. She was brought home as we have said on Saturday night, and died at her home.

Mrs. Trout was well known to our citizens. Many hearts will be saddened by her departure, for she had a wide circle of friends. The funeral was held at the family home on Pleasant Street Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock and Rev. G. C. Chandler of the Baptist church conducted the services. A quartet composed of Mrs. S. E. Clappe, Mrs. O. C. Kucheman, Jesse Bowen and Dr. Max Wright rendered sweet music and the many floral tributes bore silent testimony to the esteem in which the deceased was held in the community.

Lou Fischer Trout grave
 

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