Troth Family

TROTH

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 11/10/2010 at 23:47:43

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Troth Family
By Jody K Boyd

Our Troth line can be traced to William Troth, who came from England and in Evesham Two, Burlington County, New Jersey. He was apparently engaged to Elizabeth Field in England when he came to America. Elizabeth was forbidden to marry William and had to sell jewelry to procure the requisite means to defray the expenses incident to her journey. Elizabeth and William were wed upon her arrival in America.

One of their children was Paul Troth. He married a Deborah in 1728 and had five children. One of these was Isacc born December 15, 1737, and married Hannah in 1759. Isacc and Hannah Troth had six children. Hannah died in 1775, probably at childbirth or from complications, as her sixth child was born in 1775. Isacc married twice more before his death in 1783.

William, son of Isacc and Hannah, was born September 26, 1762, in New Jersey and married Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of John and Damaris (Parker) Phillips, on February 6, 1787, in Burlington County, Pennsylvania. To this union then children were born in New Jersey and the latter two in Highland County, Ohio. William and Elizabeth moved to Ohio between Ohio of 1806 and December of 1809.

William Troth, son of William and Elizabeth, was born March 11, 1791, in New Jersey. He married Elizabeth Grady in 1812 in Ohio. Elizabeth was the daughter of John and Ann Grady. William and Elizabeth also had ten children.

Isacc, son of William and Elizabeth Troth, Sr, was born November 18, 1792, in Burlington County, New Jersey (he is a brother to the William Troth in the previous paragraph). Isacc married Hannah Darby, daughter of William and Signet (Rushton) Darby, on July 7, 1812, in Highland County, Ohio. The couple had nine children: Lydia, Mary, Sarah, William, George W, Simon, John, Harriet and Maraby.

George W was born in 1850 in Missouri in either Cedar or Polk County. George married a Mary about 1841 in Missouri and had five children. She probably died at childbirth as her youngest was born in November of 1850. We have records indicating both George W, Jr, and John T were born in 1850 (possibility of being twins).

George W, Sr remarried in 1853 to Emaline Wiatt and this couple had six children. After Emaline’s death he married Mary Hoffman and after Mary’s death he married a Sally. George W Sr wives and children moved from Missouri to Iowa to Kansas then back to Iowa, settling for a time in Mills County, Iowa.

John T was born in 1850 in Missouri. He married Eliza Frances Tipton on July 11, 1873, in Mills County, Iowa. Eliza was the daughter of James and Louisa (Rankin) Tipton. They had eight children, only five of whom survived, and only the two girls married. Judy married John Wesley Boyd on September 28, 1894, at Sioux City, and lived there with her family until her divorce. Mary Elizabeth ‘Mame’ married January 8, 1902, to Charles Edward Napier.

John and John Boyd had three children: Arthur James, Sr; Iv Gladys; and Erving. She raised Hattie and Allen (John’s children by a previous marriage) as her own. After John and Judy were divorced; she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and remarried. She had one more child – Norma.