Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-11-06

Defeat in 1858, and another at th
( Battle of Point Pleasant, at th
mouth Of the Kanawha, in IVA. - 'i
James Allen, the father of Jane, wa
10 years old when "Stone church, wa
built; he died in 1910 at the age of 94.-
He remembered that the black oak q
the west door Of the church was sprou
from the stump of a tree that was Gu
down when the church was fort III
was an elderin that church for ga years
he followed his trade as a wheelwright il
its vicinity and made the Communion
table used in that, the old "Stone" O.
Augusta" church. sfa9 nisdIgoe, .od
Soon after his, marriage, James Trim,
BILE and few friends, lured by the &C
counts that came from Daniel Boon,
land the hunters that had followed him
took 'sBoone's trace, ~ near the preseh
Tennessee line and through Cumberland
Gap, to the now famous "Blue-grass'
region OF Kentucky, on the banks Of thu
river of the same name. The party wal
delighted with that charming country
and at once formed a company of eight
or ten families that, in 1884, went by
the same route, by a bride road that
had been made by Virginia ito give
passage to travellers with pack-horses'
to the "open country" beyond the Cum.
berland mountains, journey of some
400 miles, to the vicinity of Lexington.
On this journey, says DR.. Strickland,
in volume named "Our Excellent
Women, /" ''on one occasion Mrs. Trim
BILE performed a dangerous feat. She
travelled horseback, carrying her eldest
child behind her, and her little boy,
Allen, eleven months old, in her lap
On reaching Clinch river, the stream
was found swollen by recent rains, and
the swift current dashing over huge
rocks. Mrs. Trimble was leading the
company of females, and trusting in
God, and committing all her interests to
the rapid stream and reached the oppo-
site shore in safety, amid the prayers
and shouts of those who watched her
progress. The remainder of the compa-
ny crossed by ford higher up the river.
General Knox, who Commanded the
party of emigrants, told Mrs. Trimble
that, in true courage and presence of
mind, she equalled the ancient Spartan
women, and she deserved to be classed
with them. She replied, that "she owed
all to the merciful care of q kind Provi-
dence." 4.,.t t.-...,..
Arrived safely in Kentucky, Mr..
Trimble soon reared himself a home on
the banks of Clear creek, where he re-
mained for 20 years, during which chill
dren were born to him until six sons,
Allen, William, James, Cary, Cyrus
and John. and two daughters, Margaret
G. and Polly L., were gathered at his
table. .I...,si.tt.
Margaret c., one of these, as before
stated, was born in 1870, six years after
the removal to Kentucky, and there, on
the confines of civilization, and amid
the trials and dangers Of frontier life,
and as member of large and indus
trious family, she spent her early girl
hood. Mrs. Trimble was, during most
of this period, the educator of her own
children, task for which she was ad-
mirably qualified by her own early ap-
titude and training, and by her famili-
ty with the bible and the standard au-
thOrs of our English tongue; and no
wonder that educated and trained to
industry they became men and women
of mark. .. s-. .t,
In the meantime a great tide of popu~
lation was pouring through the passes
of the mountains to thegreat West. In
a recently published letter, written at
the time by Capt. Butler of Westmore- :
land county, he states that in returning
from Kentucky in the Fall of 1887 he
"met upwards of eight thousand souls
on the road, and he supposed that at
least 900 went out to that country
in the course of the Fall. Kentucky,
Tennessee and Ohio were made States
the latter in 1902
The same year that Ohio was admit
ted to the Union with a Constitution
prohibiting slavery, as Virginia had
stipulated in ceding the territory, Capt.
Trimble emancipated his slaves in Ken
lucky and purchased land in Ohio--in
another limestone country and on an
other Clear creek some two miles from
the present town of .Hillsboro', in
Highland county-and in 1904, while
improving his Ohio land and pre-
pairing to remove to it, he was
taken sick and died. Mrs. Trimble,
however, complied with, his dying re-
guest and went the following year, with
her eight children, to the new home he
had chosen a1d there lived until her
death in 1889, at the age of "a. From
that new home she sent five sons to the
war of 1872, and from it Allen Trimble
became one of the Governors of Ohio,
! Col William A. Trimble, In 1919, one
of its U. s. Senators, and Cary and Cy-
rus Trimble officers of the United States
army. Polly l.. became the wife of
John M. Nelson in Ohio, and her daugh-
ter is now devoted missionary on the
giant Himalayas of India. .,,. Il.
From this Ohio home to which she
often returned by the bride path, the
stage road, and the railroad, as each
took the place of the other-Margaret
came to Virginia in 1907 to visit her
many relatives, and here the following
year, 1903, at the age of eighteen, she
was married to James A. McCue, the
eldest son of the Rev. John McCue,
pastor of Thinking Spring congregation.
Thls marriage took place at the house of
Maj. VIM. Beli--the present home of w.
j. ID. Bell, Esq.-on Lewis creek, the
ceremony being performed by the Rev.
VIM. Wilson, at that time pastor of the
| Augusta church. This was q double
wedding, for by the same ceremony
Margaret Bell, a cousin of Margaret
Trlmble, became the wife Of Mr.. Kay
4 ser, the father of our respected citizens.
I'D: A. and VIM. B. Kayser. .,
| Mr.. McCue had already located him
self among the noble fountains and on
the rich lands at the head of Messy
Greek, and to that pleasant home-just
as the noble forests that new cover so
nAuSA VI Jul ldlI NdIIey were Sprl0glnQ
up. as from one great seeding, and occu.
pying the prairie-like region found here
by the early settlers, as Mr.. McCue often
stated-he at once took his bloomiug
bride, and there, for nine and sixty
years-more than the years of two gen.
eratlons of men, she lived the life of a
devoted Christian woman. Her hus.
band, q gentleman of the olden days,
was for more than As years magistrate,
and for more than 20 years commits.
sloner OF the revenue for the county OF
i Augusta. He was man of substance
and large-hearted Christian liberalitv,
he looked well 10 the ways Of the farm
ana his wife did ta those of her house
hold, and both dispensed a generous
hospitality and abounded in deeds OF
charity and good will to numberless
friends, neighbors and strangers. Her
husband preceded he1, by some "A years
| TO the better land. 9hH NY - '7
| Rive children were born to this happy
Yedlock, two died in infancy, and dliS' i
Mary j., just as she was entering wo.
manhood. One daughter, Eliza A., be-
eaMe first the wife of Mr.. Gate.