Surnames: TRUSTER MCFALL POTTINGER KEFER WINTERSTEEN SWOPE KIRKPATRICK CUNNINGHAM HOFFMAN GENTRY HARDIN HADLEY CONROW FINLEY BEISER LEADWELL HANLON INMAN From: Memoirs of the Miami Valley, Vol. III, 1919 pages 723/724Jerry Truster. At present a retired farmer of Collinsville, Jerry Truster has been one of the industrious men of Butler county, linking his name with all that is admirable in farming and wise and progressive in individual life. He has been a lifelong resident of the county, having been born on a farm in Wayne township, September 21,1861, a son of Louis and Margaret (McFall) Truster, natives also of Butler county, who were married at Somerville. Louis Truster was one of those adventurous souls who answered the call of the west and made the long and hazardous trip across the plains in quest of gold as a "forty-niner," but on his return was content to settle down to the peaceful pursuits of agriculture in Wayne township, dividing his time between farming and wagon making, the latter of which had been his trade in his earlier years. Subsequently he bought the old Pottinger place in the same township, and there occurred the death of his wife in 1866, following which! he removed to his home at Dayton, retired from active pursuits, and died at the age of seventy years. He was a man of some influence and importance in his community, and served in the capacity of township trustee, a position to which he was elected on the Democratic ticket. He and his worthy wife were consistent members of the Presbyterian church and the parents of: Louis, a farmer of Hanover township, married Rosa Kefer; Anna, the widow of William Wintersteen; Levi, who died in 1894, married Martha Swope; Emanuel, a farmer of Wayne township, who married Jennette Kirkpatrick; Frank, a farmer of Wayne township, who married Ella Cunningham; Lizzie, who married Jacob Hoffman, of Seven Mile; Ruth, who married George Gentry, of Miltonville, Ohio; and Jerry, of this notice. Jerry Truster is indebted to the district schools of his home community for his educational training, to which there has been added the experience and knowledge gained through observation during later years. H! e remained under the parental roof until he was twenty-one years of age, at which time he embarked upon a career of his own, and December 25 1884, was united in marriage with Clara Hardin, of Milford township, daughter of Giles and Mary (Hadley) Hardin, the former of Milford township and the latter of Hendricks County, Ind. Mr. Hardin, who was a farmer all of his life in Milford township, and a highly respected and public-spirited citizen of his community, as well as a staunch Republican, died in 1894, aged fifty-six years, in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church. He and his wife, who survives him and resides at Richmond, Ind., had four children: Clara, who became Mrs. Jerry Truster; George, who was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Preble county, Ohio, married Catherine Conrow, and died at the age of fifty years; Lucinda, who is the wife of R. T. Finley, of Collinsville; and Lee, a resident of Newcastle, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Truster are the parents of the following ch! ildren: Edgar, a farmer at Collinsville, who married Bertha Beiser and has two children-Roy and Marion; Edith, who is the wife of William Leadwell, a farmer of Milford township, and has one child, Dorothy; Mary, the wife of John Gerber, of Milford township, with five children-Helen, Clara, Fred, Paul and Mary; Nellie, the wife of J. W. Hanlon, a telegraph operator at Somerville, Ohio, with two sons-Forrest and Kenneth; and Walter, who joined the U. S. Navy and sailed on the U. S. S. Longback for the Philippines. He also served for fourteen months with an aviation corps in France, and on his return to the United States, settled at Somerville, where he now lives with his parents. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Truster settled on a farm north of Seven Mile, on which they resided for six years, then moving to the Jacob Inman place, where they lived for seven years. In 1898 they purchased the old Giles Hardin place of 119 acres, in Milford township, upon which they carri! ed on operations for thirteen years, but eventually built their home at Collinsville, where they have resided since, and disposed of the farm by sale in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Truster are included among the most highly esteemed people of their part of Butler county, and have numerous friends. They are consistent members of the Presbyterian church at Collinsville, and Mr. Truster is an influential Democrat and at one time served as a member of the school board. -- Gary KingBatavia IL     Researching in Knox, Licking, Perry Counties, OHIO: Butcher, Crotinger, Davis, McClurg, Wheatcraft, Cooperrider, Beckenbaugh, Neighbarger, Catt, WilkinIn Butler Co., Ohio: Stahlheber, Kippenberger, Beiser, Pater, KingIn Clermont Co., Ohio:    King, Bartlett, Hall, Aylward.In Botetourt Co. 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