The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-18
TWO VETERANS PASS AWAY.
Daniel Trent Expires at His Home IN
Somerset, ana Frederick A. Buelmsn


The people of this entire community
were shocked on Thursday last when
II became known that Daniel Trent. a
lifelong and honored resident of Somer-
set had expired a few minutes after elev-
en- o'clock at his pleasant home on East
Main street.
Mr.. Trent was man of splendid
physique and enjoyed robust health up
until after he enlisted i'm the Union Ar
my, where he sustained disabilities
which eventually terminated in his
death. His condition, however, WAS not
such as to arouse serious 'apprehensions
On the part of his family until few
hours before the end, when it was too late
~ summon his children-all of whom
reside away from Somerset-to his bed
side.
The funeral took place at o'clock Sun
day afternoon, and just as the evening
sun was sinking in the western horizon
his body was laid 10 rest in the family
plot in the Lutheran Cemetery. The ex-
ercises at the house were conducted by
Elder Mullendore, of the Disciple
Church, of which denomination Mr.
Trent had been member since early
manhood. X. p. Cummins Post q. a. X
had charge of the ceremonies at the
grave, where the beautiful ritual of that
order was recited by his surviving COM
rades. The funeral was one of the lar
gest seen here in recent years and bore
evidence of the value his acquaintances
placed upon him as good citizen, kind
neighbor and loyal friend.
Daniel Trent was born in Somerset
township on March S, lS22, and was in
his 10Th year at the time of his death,
He was married to Miss Matilda Landis,
who by the way is only his junior eight
days, in 1850, with whom he lived happi-
ly for almost half a century. To them
were born six children, four of whom
survive, as follows: Mary E.,wife Of S. 5,
Ridgley, prominent citizen of Pitts
burg, Kan; Charles H., engaged in the
bank safe and vault furnishing business
at Milwaukee, Wis; Parker, of Wash
ington, d. c., and Walter, OF Pittsburg,
Pa. Their first born child, Ella, died in
1889, and the youngest, Daniel, died al
Pittsburg, in lS90.
When young man Mr.. Trent learned
the carpenters trade, which he followed
continuously, with the exception of four
years given to the service of his country,
up until incapacitated by i'll health. Al
the outbreak of the war he enlisted under
Capt. +. ID. Yutzy, in Co. C., 9th Pa.
Vol, and after serving three years, dur
ing which time he participated in mum.
ber of engagements, he was honorably
discharged, but Immediately re-enlisted
TO serve until the close of the war. -Four
days before the final surrender at Apo
mattox his command was detailed to
special duty when he and his brother
Moses were captured by the Confeder-
ates at High Bridge and were among the
prisoners surrendered by Gen. Lee.
Six years ago when Judge Longeneck-
er came to Somerset for the purpose OF
presiding for the first time over the
courts of this county, he met Mr.. Trent
on the streets, and in the conversation
which followed il was developed that
they had been comrades in the same
army corps and had been intimately as
sociated in the army, and as a token
of his high regard and esteem Judge
Longenecker appointed him one of the
officers of the court, a position which he
has since held.
Although an industrious tradesman,
Mr.. Trent found diversion in reading,
and it can be said that few Of our citizens
were better informed in American his
tory and political events than was he.
An uncompromising Republican from
the formation of the party he sought to
impress its principles and objects upon
the minds of the young men with whom
he came in contact. He was a great ad-
mirer and loyal friend of Major McKin-
ley and frequently referred to his visit to
Canton in company with the Lincoln
Club during the late campaign as one of
the happiest events in his life. The
pleasure of his visit to Canton was rem
dered especially happy from the fact that
it was in thai city he cast his first ballot
for Henry Clay