Person:Enoch Trusty (1)

ENOCH TAYLOR TRUSTY
Nashua Reporter
23 April 1914

Obituary of E. T. Trusty
Enoch Taylor Trusty was born in Shawneetown, White county, Ill., Jan. 13, 1833 and died at his home in Ionia, Iowa, April 16, 1914, being 81 years, 3 months and 3 days at the time of his death. On Oct. 25, 1854, he was married to Miss Mary VanSickle, of Shellsburg, Ill, and to this union were born seven children, three of whom are still living. In the fall of 1855 he came with his wife to Iowa, locating on a farm one mile north of Ionia, where he resided for 50 years. After that time he resided in Ionia. His first wife died Feb. 11, 1870, leaving her husband and six children, one daughter dying in infancy. On April 28, 1871 he was again married, to Miss (sic) Anna Huffman. To this union seven children were born, six of them still living. One son died about a year ago. The deceased is survived by his wife and nine children: Andrew, of Bemidji, Minn., Alonzo and William, of Waterloo, Vernor, of Ocheydon, Raymond, of California, Mrs. Alice Gerbolt (Gerholt?), Lester and Leo, of Ionia and Mrs. Emma Parrish, of Reinbeck; also left three brothers, 27 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the Congregational church in Ionia, Friday, April 17, at 2 o'clock p.m., Rev. C. H. Moxie officiating. Interment was in Chickasaw cemetery. Mr. Trusty was a member of the Ionia Congregational church, becoming a member when that church was organized some thirty years ago. Besides being a consistent Christians, Mr. Trusty was one of the upright citizens of Ionia and universally looked up to by his large circle of friends.