Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Trinkle, Samuel 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Samuel Trinkle, farmer, Veedersburg, the son of Frederic and Sally (Martin)
Trinkle. The former was a native of Virginia, born in 1792. He was reared to
farming. In 1812 he was married to Sally Martin. They first moved to Ohio, where
they remained till 1826, when they came to Fountain county, locating one half
mile west of what is now Veedersburg. They raised a family of eleven children,
six boys and five girls. Frederic Trinkle served in the war of 1812 for a short
time. The Trinkle family came originally from Germany. Frederic and wife were
members of the Freewill Baptist church. They both lived to the good old age of
seventy-eight years. He was four years her senior. They were both esteemed
highly for their christian character and social and benevolent kindness to all.
Samuel Trinkle resides on a portion of the old homestead of his father. He was
born in Montgomery county, Ohio; emigrated to Fountain county with his parents.
He was inured to all the hardships of pioneer life. His early education was such
as he could obtain in the pioneer schools. In 1836 he was married to Elizabeth
Buck, of Ohio, daughter of John and Susan Buck, both natives of Virginia,
emigrating to Ohio in 1815, and then to Fountain county in 1830. He has by this
alliance eleven children: Margaret J., Martin (deceased), Cyrena C., Frederic
(deceased), John (deceased), Berilda, Henry (deceased), Sarah (deceased),
Elizabeth (deceased), Christopher, and Isac J. Martin was a soldier in the 68th
Ind. Vols. He died in the service at the end of sixteen months. Samuel Trinkle
and his wife are members of the United Brethren church. He has repeatedly been
elected assessor of Van Buren township for the past twenty-nine years. In
politics he is a republican. He has a farm of ninety acres, in a good state of
cultivation.

Additional Comments:

Van Buren Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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