Trimble, Enoch

TRIMBLE

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 22:11:32

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.625

TRIMBLE, ENOCH, farmer, Liberty Township, Sec. 18; P.O. Liberty Center; born September 18, 1836, in Knox county, Ohio; came to this county in fall of 1857, and settled in White Oak township in 1873; owns a fine farm of 100 acres of well improved land; enlisted in Co. D, First Iowa Cavalry, June 13, 1861; served as a private during the war and was honorably discharged September 9, 1864; was in battles of Fredricktown, Missouri, Lone Jack, Prairie Grove, Saline River, and many skirmishes; was never off of duty and never answered the doctor's call while in the service; married August 21, 1865, to Hettie V., daughter of Daniel Mahlon, of Warren county; they had six children: Mahlon R., Samuel G., John H., Nannie M., Alvin H., Clarence S.; Alvin H. died in infancy.