Re: Trumbos of Linn County Missouri
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Trumbos of Linn County Missouri
Darren Jerome 2/03/03
My Great Grandfather, Andrew F. Trumbo was born in Kentucky about 1827.He later moved to Ill. and later moved to Linn Co. He married Mary S. Flournoy 22 December 1859 in Linn County, Missouri and they had three children. She was born about 1842 in
Missouri. Isaac Trumbo said, "He owned land in Linn County, Missouri.He worked for Wadell Majors Fargo, a big company at Independence,Missouri. They ran ten thousand wagons for the government contractors in the west. He took thirty wagons over the plains at a time for a salary of eight hundred dollars. He said that he was so clever he gave all of it away. At one time he lived near Bans Ridge, California. They lived in Linn County, Missouri in 1860.The Civil War having changed the conditions in Missouri, he and the family with Mr.william S. Flournoy family and other relatives, left Linn Co. and again started across the plains which were already covered with the white bones of those who had been surprised by Indians or died from disease.In April 1864 the family which now consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Trumbo and two children, Anna and George Harness started for their new home in Ca.On the way Anna became sick and delayed the train for a time in what is now Idaho.Here she died and was buried, while the survivors were in danger of their lives from the warlike Indians, who were on the warpath at that time.But they were able to reach Grand Round Valley, Oregon, after a long wary trip of three months.They remained in Oregon three or four years, but on account of having no market they moved to Sacramento Valley, California and then moved to South Fork, Modoc County and was their home until about about 1878.
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Re: Trumbos of Linn County Missouri
Darren Jerome 10/03/04
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