Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-10-14
Jno. A. Trimble.
IFor the SPECTATOR.

Mr.. Editor:-The soldiers of one of Vir-
ginia's large army organizations, who oper-
ated mostly in the Valley and West Va,
will recall '1ittle Jack Trimble," the boy
soldier. Small of stature, delicate, with
feminine voice. he was brave, manly, ar
dent, and the soul of honor. A few years
after the war, he closed his eyes In Hills
boro', Ohio, his native town. A letter re-
ceived by a gentleman in Staunton, on the
3rd inst, brings intelligence of the death OF
his father, Jno A. Trimble. 1t occurred
on the 9th Sept at New Vienna, Clinton
CO., o., under the roof of his only son, Dr.
Rodney T. Trimble. Born on Clear Creek,
Woodford CO., KY, in 1S00-was the young
est and last child of Capt. Jas. Trimble and
Jane Allen. Capt. Trimble, a soldier at
PIT. Pleasant, and Captain of cavalry in the
Rev. married, as second wife, Jane-oldest
child of Jas. Allen, sixty-five years, and OF
first batch of elders of Old Stone (Augusta)
Church-under Father Craig. She was the
eldest of 12 children. Ola company of 70
emigrants, headed by Gen. Knox of the
Rev., in 17S4, she led the females. She
swan the Holston with her oldest child AL
len, II months old, in her lap, and his little
half-sister tied to her waist. Of the de-
scendants of her brothers and sisters, they
can be counted on the fingers. Mrs. Gen'l
Mcdowell, of Hillsboro', O., in her 91st
year, trips along the street like a girl of 16,
to her Sunday School class she has taught
near so years. At thirteen of all the family,
she in Sept. 1917, ministered first at the
side of her father, Rev. Jno. McCue. killed
by fall from his horse, as he passed from
his hi yard to Tinkling Spring Church. He
had served 81 years, as its third PASTOR
Her mother was elizabeth Allen. Of a
pair of twin sisters, Mrs. Peggy Crawford.
Mrs. Jane A. Van Lear, and Mrs. Julia
Arbuckle, of Margaret, wife of Maj VIM
Bell, and Mrs. Nancy McCue and Mrs Mary
A. Moorman, of Rebecca, wife of Mai. Jno.
Crawford, and Jas. Turner Allen, of Chi
cago, of the youngest child, Col. Jas. AL
len, seUen in all, survive. Col. Allen sold in
1895, the Sam Cline (Boling) farm and mill,
and joined his son Jno. in Michigan. He
it was, who laid off and named "Ann Ar
bor," after his wife, Ann Barry McCue-
and the Arbor of boughs that sheltered 'em
the first Summer. His wife was the moth
er of Mrs. DIR. Addison Waddell, of New
Hope, where she died.
Jno A. Trimble married in Staunton,
and his wife Lavin;a, is the surviving mem
ber of the late DR.. VIM. Boys-frst Supt.
of the W. L. A, and now Geo. M. Cochran
is his surviving son-in-law, DIR. Isaac Tel
fair, of Ga, and Col. VIM. Fl. Allen, who
died in Texas, and Rev. -, Of Eng
land, were the others.
Jno. A. Trimble was a long time mer-
chant of Hillsboro', o, and since has been
writing for the papers of his native town.
(Hillsboro' Gazette for the most part,) over
the signature of "Pioneer," most valuable
contributions to the history of his native
State, Kentucky, of Ohio and Virginia.
He leaves wife, daughter and son
to mourn the loss of a father, upright, re-
spected and esteemed by all who knew him.
OCCASIONAL.