Trotter, Monroe 1822-1898

TROTTER, BARKER, SLATER, SUMMERLOTT, PINK, SCHAFER

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Date: 5/14/2005 at 15:44:42

The Newton (IA) Record Thursday, June 9, 1898
In Memory of Monroe Trotter

Trotter, Monroe

Monroe Trotter, a brief mention of whose death appeared in Thursday’s DAILY RECORD, had been a sufferer for over two years resulting from a stroke of paralysis, which came to him on the old home farm just before he moved into town.

He was a good old man in whose life has been mingled much of sorrow as well as happiness. He had since his early manhood been a member of the M. E. Church, and died in the triumph of Christian faith. For forty-six years he had been a resident of Jasper County.

He was born Jan. 5, 1822, in Monroe County, Ind., and died June 2, 1898, at 10 o’clock a. m. at his home in Newton. In the year 1842, he was married to Elizabeth Barker, who died in March 1886. He and his wife came to Jasper County in 1852, settling on a farm in Adamson Grove, where he remained until two years before his death. To him were born ten children all of whom are living excepting two John, who died in Illinois in 1887, and Amanda who died in infancy. Those who survive are: Mrs. Alex Slater of Washington Co., Kans., Jas. Trotter of Winnebago Co., Mrs. Mary Summerlott, Mrs. Richard Pink, Mrs. Alice Schafer, Henry, Joseph, and George Trotter, all of this city and vicinity.

The funeral services were conducted on Saturday at 11 a. m. by Rev. C. V. Cowan, and the remains laid to rest in Mt. Zion Cemetery.

Originally submitted on Sun Sep 22 14:21:36 2002