This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Wh.2ADE/1832.2 Message Board Post: Avice M. Trent married Pleasant Edgar Mohler July 22, 1894 in Union County, IL. Pleasant, or Edgar as the name he went by, was the s/o Robert Allen Mohler and Mary Ann Peck. Robert Allen Mohler is a brother to my husband's great-grandfather, William Pinkney Mohler. Edgar P. and Avice M. Mohler appear in the 1900 Bloomfield, Johnson County, IL census. In their household is Avice's mother, Ann E. Trent, widow, born May, 1844, IL. (Evidentally William died between 1880 and 1900.) I don't know what happened to Ann E. Trent after this census but I do know that Avice died of typhoid fever between 1900 and 1903. Here is an excerpt from the History of Marshall County, KY at the Pogue Library in the Murrary State University: "Pleasant Edgar, like his father, was the smallest of his brothers, attaining only 5'7", but possessing great determination. His education began at age six, but lasted only six months. The family moved to southeast Missouri where there were no public schools. They moved back to Johnson County but "Ed's" education was held off until he was seventeen. A "grown boy", Ed began Bethlehem School in the second reader, never having learned multiplication or penmanship. During the last term, he took a special examination. Eagerness to learn and long study hours were repaid with a second class teaching certificate. About that time Ed fell in love with a beautiful young teacher. Dreams for a lifetime of teaching together and the little white house in the just-right-spot were shattered. She died of typhoid fever. Ed was crushed." The beautiful young teacher referred to was Avice M. Trent. Ed went on to remarry in Marshall County, KY in September of 1904 where that branch of ! the Mohler family relocated. When I saw your posting I didn't connect the Avice to what I had as Alice. But I went back and looked at the 1900 census data and sure enough...it is spelled Avice and her mother is Ann E. Trent. This explains why you couldn't find very much on her. I only found one reference to Charles Trent. In the 1910 Anna, Union County, IL census: Trent, Charles G., head, 36, IL, married 16 years Trent, Annie (writing is hard to read) L., wife, 36, IL, three children/three living Trent, Reginald E., son, 15, IL Trent, Hobart M., son, 13, IL Trent, Thelma, daughter, 5, IL Boren, Ruth H., mother-in-law, 66, IL In the Illinois State Archives: Charles G. Trent married a Lula M. Boren on July 8, 1894 in Union County, IL. Hope this helps! Kim Mohler