This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RWB.2ACE/263.267.1.3.1 Message Board Post: Mary Trotter--Hmm! I am the great grandson of Sarah Mary Trout b Sept 28, 1872, near Pharishburg, Ohio, Union county, O. Died Aug 4, 1933, rests in Houston, cemetery, Nicknamed Sadie & w/o Charles Curtis Alexander or Richwood, Ohio. They did live in Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, at 518 River St. (St Rt 66) b4 moving to Shelby County, Dawson and then Houston, Ohio. Sarah was sibling of Alice May b May 16, 1865, Licking county, Ohio married John J Soliday. James William Trout b Oct 22 1866 Marysville, Ohio married Sarah Amis Ireland. These were children of Livi Trout and Margaret Lyda Hitt of Licking County and rest in Broadway Cemetery, Broadway, Ohio . Levi one of 9 children of James Trout b 1792, Pa and Sarah of Pa. Levi was 5th b Mar 12 1834, d Sept 12, 1899, eldest sibling was Nancy Trout b 1826, Pa, 2nd Margaret b 1828, Pa, 3rd Elizabeth of 1830, Pa, 4th Moriah b 1832, Ohio, 6th Catherine of 1836, Ohio. 7th Sarah of 1838, Ohio, 8&9th were twins: Cynthia and Victoria of 1843! , Ohio Alice May Trout of 3-14-1865 and John J Soliday had 9 children who married into the families: Alexander(there were several of the 86 alexander families of Pa of 1790), Richards, Grote, Godfrey, Finkbone, Doseck and Huber. James William Trout & Sarah amis Ireland had 3 children: Elizabeth, Margaret and Huganna( marriages included larcom and Tatman. Sarah Mary (Sadie) Trout and C.C. Alexander had one child, Maude Marie of July 15, 1892, d Kec 1, 1977, rests in Houston, Cemetery, I do have much more. And then I do have another Alexander line from my maternal line in the Miami county, area: William b 6-12-1872, Troy, Ohio d 4-17-1916, Piqua, Ohio s/o Amos and Amanda Welbaum, married Sarah Moyer, d/o William Moyer and Elizabeth Coffman( d/o David and Anna Elizabeth Jackson of Richmond, Va.) This is a sad story, ehere both parents die of accidents within abt a year and leave 9 children to be spread out among family to be raised. They were Myrtle of 6-12-1872, Raliegh of 1-17- 1899, Margaret naomi of 11-6-1900, Gladys Viola of 4-11-1901, Helen marie of 12-25-1903. Wardell of 10-3-1905, Opal Etoil of 11-27-190/. William Moyer Alexander of 12-16-1909, & Jeanette of 10-3-1913. Hence the Alexander story of the Miami Valley in very large. Ralph Aaron Bauer Bar5@Bright.net