The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-12-13
A HAPPY FAMILY RE-
UNION.
The Trimmer Family all
Meet after a Separation
of Forty Years,

brothers and sister children ut the pl-
oneer Trimmers of Ward township,
met for reunion at the hospitable
and happy home of Mr.. Henry
Trimmer, our near country neighbor
and widely known and esteemed
fellow citizen.
The family living, are 'four boys
and one girl" The oldest. DR.. Jo-
seph Trimmer, has his home
at Basil, Ohio, but for some time
past has been practicing medicine
at Murray, in Ward township and
where he is held in such high esteem
that the people are not willing he
shall leave them and 60 back to his
family and home. He is man 6S
years of age, well preserved and
with the exception Of course of his
sister, the best looking of the fam
lily.
Abram Trimmer of Sal,lick town
ship, in Perry, just across the line, a
Hockingite..all the same, is one the
successful buiness men of his com
munity, and is one of the most lnflu=
entail in all public. matters in his
/
county.
Johnston Trimmer is an Illinois
farmer and considered pioneer in
his county. He has been resident
of the state, near the Mississippi
River, for forty years and in all that
timehas maintained himself among
the foremost of the old settlers,
and intelligent farmers of his
county.
Geo. Trimmer is a Circleville far
mer, the leading man in his com
munity upon all matters of public
interest, and man who commands
attention in any community and
every company.
Mrs. Catharine .Hoskins of near
Ilesboro is the only sister, and of
course the pet of the family. She
is good woman, our people all like
and respect her.
Henry, our locking county
Trimmer, is known to every body,
and has the respect and esteem of
every body. He has filled pnhlic
Office with honor and credit. He
takes an interested part in our pub
!ic affairs. and is liberal and ready
and handy on all occasions and in
any emergency.
The boys have strong family re-
semblance, and from the limited
acquaintance we have, possess the
sterling qualities of their pioneer
parents.
Their parents came from New
York, fifty five years ago. Mr..
Trimmer was the local blacksmith
and farmed the best he could in the.
rongh, rugged hills OF his
adopted home. At an early age the
boys took to coal digging at Nelson
vile and doing jobs of work, any
kind of honest work they could do,
in order to help hold the family to-
gether, and pay for the farm. As
soon as they grew old enough to
..stand on their feet" they struck
out for themselves, never forgetting
as they prospered, to help the oil
folks at home.
1t was hard to make living and
raise family Oil Snow Fork, fifty
years ago. The Trimmer boys
learned from their parents to be
honest, sober, Industrious. The
lesson has not been forgotten in life
, and God has blest them with health
and plenty, and better yet. high
, character as christian men and citi-
zens, esteemed and honored among
their fellow men.
The writer of this notice knew
of the Trimmers "way back.
1t happened that up in the high
chestnut ridges near Somerset where
we were born, the wheat ripened
about TWO weeks before it ripened in
Ward, and a week or more earlier
than about Bremen and the lower
lying country, For years the sturdy
lads from down on Snow Fork, ten
and twenty of them in a company,
would come up and help us out in
harvest. They were stout, hearty
jolly Sc of men and we boys were
always glad to see them, because
they had so many wonderful bear
stories to tell us Somerset tender
foots. They were all reapers. All
the wheat was cut that way then.
They would "clean up" mans
harvest IN a day. Then 60 to a
neIghbor the next day, and in the
week, Chestnut Ridge was finished,
and the reapers went home, coming
next week OH Rushcreek, and SO on
until all the harvest wo-k was done.
They slept in the barn on hay OF
: straw. Mother giving them such
blankets and quilts as were at hand,
and they eat their meals, if at all
possible, out of doors in the shade
of the trees.
There were, as we remember
Trimmer, and the Straits, the Scales,