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- NIMROD TROLLINGER (1827 - 1901)
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MARTHA SHAW (1831 - 1896)
Nimrod Trollinger was the son of JACOB TROLLINGER, JR., and SARAH (SALLY) JACOBS. He was born on his parent's farm near Barton in George's Creek Valley of Allegany County, Maryland, on August 12, 1827. He was the second of nine children born to them. The others were: EMILY, Drucilla, Mary Margaret, Sarah, and Anna Christina. The names of the other three children are presently unknown.
When he was just 10 years old, Nimrod began plowing and doing other farm chores because his father, JACOB, JR., had devolped a serious case of asthma and could not do heavy farm work. When he was only fifteen, he took charge of operating his parents' 236-acre farm.
Then in May 1853, at the age of 26, Nimrod traveled west to Ohio with his sister, EMILY TROLLINGER, and her husband, AHIMAAZ JACOBS, who purchased land in Miami Township of Greene County. At the same time, Nimrod purchased land in Section 7 of Bath Township in Greene County from John Folck for $33 an acre. It was partially cleared land on the Dayton-Yellow Springs Pike near Byron and had a log building on it. Later, he helped build the Fairfield-Xenia Pike that ran through his farm.
In August, Nimrod returned to George's Creek Valley in Allegany County, Pennsylvania, where he married Martha Shaw on September 15, 1853. She had been born in Barton, Maryland on May 31, 1831, and was the granddaughter of Reverend William Shaw, one of the early pioneering Methodist Episcopal Church preachers in the area. He had immigrated to Maryland from England. Martha was the tenth child in a family of fifteen children.
Sending his new wife and his father, JACOB, ahead in the summer of 1853 to the new homestead in Ohio, Nimrod loaded their family household possessions and farm tools into a four-team covered wagon and drove westward. It took him two weeks to reach his new land in Bath Township.
In the ensuing years, through diligent effort and hard work, Nimrod transformed this land into a fine farm with modern conveniences. As a result, he was able to grow first class crops of wheat, corn and a variety of other grains. During the Civil War, he turned to raising various breeds of livestock. His father passed away on this farm in 1870 and he was buried in the Glen Forest Cemetery at nearby Yellow Springs. Nimrod's farming successes eventually enabled him to build a large barn in 1871 and eight years later he was able to add a more modern residence.
Nimrod and Mary were blessed with ten children. They were: Sarah, who became the wife of Franklin Batdorf, a farmer living near Fairfield (now Fairborn) Ohio; Mary Jane, who married Martin Paxton, who owned and operated a farm in Indiana; Elizabeth Ellen, who married Andrew H. Burrows; Emma Catherine, who married Cassius (Cash) Harner of Beaver Creek, Ohio; James Lorimer Graham, who married Rosa Flatter and lived on 33 acres of his father's farm; Julia Matilda, who married James C. Wolf and lived near near Byron; Martha Ann (Annie), who married Howard Flatter and lived in Miami Township of Greene County, then married Sidney Lambert and lived in New Carlisle, Ohio; twins Jacob William, who married Susie M. Finfrock, and John Henry, whose wife's name was Susie, and who later jointly operated their father's farm; and Charles Oliver, who died in infancy and was buried in Glen Forest Cemetery beside his frandfather, JACOB TROLLINGER, JR. Years later, in about 1880, Nimrod's first cousin, Zephaniah Trollinger, who had been born in West Virginia in about 1862, came to live with him as a farm hand. Later, he married Julia Kendig and raised a family of his own in the vicinity of Byron.
Meanwhile, in 1864, Nimrod had purchased 80 acres of improved land near Portland in Jay County, Indiana. He also purchased the Joseph M. Folck farm, consisting of 33 acres, near his own farm. When he finally retired, Nimrod turned the operation of his farms over to his twin sons, Jacob and John.
For 25 years, Nimrod held the position of School Director in Bath Township and he was also Supervisor of Roads for one year. Martha belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church in nearby Yellow Springs, Ohio. It is said that he voted the straight Democratic Party ticket.
Both Nimrod and Martha were buried in the Byron Cemetery in Byron, Ohio. He had died on December 5, 1901, and she passed away on September 24, 1895.
REFERENCES:
1. Portrait Biographical Album of Greene And Clark Counties, Ohio; Chapman Bros.; Chicago, Illinois; 1890
2. Trollinger family data provided by Julie M. Overton, Coordinator of Local History, Greene County Public Library, Xenia, OH; 1995
Research of the late James Wilber Jacobs
Ohio, Wills and Probate Records
Name Nimrod Trollinger
Probate Date 28 Mar 1902
Probate Place Greene, Ohio, USA
Inferred Death Year Abt 1902
Inferred Death Place Ohio, USA
Item Description Estate Files, File Box 239-242
Application for Letters of Administration
Statement of James Trollinger Nimrod died on or about 5 Dec 1901 leaving no widow the heirs at law:
Sarah Batdorf daughter
Mary J Paxton daughter
Elizabeth Burrows daughter
James Trollinger son
Julia Wolf daughter
Anna Flatter daughter
William Trollinger son
John Trollinger son
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1827 - 1901 (74 years)
