Emma
(Minerd) Trout
(1853-1939)
Emma
Jane (Minerd) Trout was born in September 1853, likely in Fayette County,
PA, the eldest daughter of John
V.S. and Elizabeth (Livingston) Minerd.
With her parents, she moved to Ironton, Lawrence County, OH as a young girl. After her father's discharge from the Civil War, the family moved back to Dunbar, Fayette County, for good.
In about 1870, Emma married Isaac F. Trout (1847-1911). They had five children -- John Minerd Trout, Dollie Missouri Trout, Earl C. Trout, Anna Belle Hower and one who died young.`
The
Trouts resided in Foxtown, Hempfield Twp., Westmoreland County,
PA. Isaac was a farmer, and later in life, with one of his sons, kept a
grocery shop in the first floor of their home.
Emma is seen here later in life, seated in a favorite rocking chair.
After Emma's father died in 1907, her widowed mother came to live with them in their residence above the storeroom.
In November 1909, about one o'clock in the morning, fire broke out in the home, and the building was "totally destroyed by fire. The origin is unknown," said the Greensburg Daily Tribune. "Practically no insurance was carried." Emma's mother had a narrow escape and lost all her clothing and shoes, as well as her papers entitling her to receive her late husband's Civil War pension.
Sadly,
Isaac
died in 1911, just two years after the fire, at the age of 64. He was laid to rest in the Stone Church Cemetery near
Foxtown.
Emma outlived Isaac by nearly three decades.
She passed away in 1939, at the age of 88. The cause of death is not known.
The Trouts are buried together with their daughter Dollie. Also resting nearby are Emma's parents, her sister and brother in law Bertha and Samuel VanDyke, as well as her brother Andrew Minerd, who was killed in a coal mine accident in 1919.
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