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Subject: [IARINGGO] BIOGRAPHY OF M. S. TRULLINGER
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:05:19 EDT

Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa,
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 299:
"M. S. TRULLINGER, justice of the peace and notary public, resides on
section 8, Middle Fork Township, and is one of the pioneers of Ringgold
County. He was born in Fountain County, Indiana, May 18, 1830, son of
Gabriel and Charlotte (French) Trullinger, who were natives of Ohio, and the
parents of two children, a son and daughter. He lived in his native county
until he was eight years of age, when his father moved to the Black Hawk
purchase, the Territory of Iowa. Here our subject was reared amid the wild
surroundings of frontier life, more frequently meeting with the red man than
the white man, and often associating with the young Indians. He acquired a
good, practical education by study at home and attending school in the log
cabins. He was married in 1850 to Margaret Carr, and they had five children,
only two of whom are living - A. C. and H. H. Mrs. Trullinger died in 1865,
and in 1866 Mr. Trullinger was united in marriage with Maria Hampton, a
relative of the Hon. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina. They have seven
children - R. W., L. B., John B., Ellen, Beatrice, Irving and Arcadia. Henry
C., a young man of great intelligence and promise, died May 28, 1886, leaving
a wife and five children to mourn his untimely loss. Mr. Trullinger is a
Republican of pronounced type, dyed in the wool and warranted fast colors.
He has served nearly twenty years as justice of the peace, and dispenses
justice to all who are called before his court in an impartial manner, worth
of a judge of the higher courts. He has been a member of the Odd Fellows
order since he was twenty-one years of age. Mr. Trullinger is quite
extensively engaged in bee culture, making a specialty of Italian Queen and a
cross of the same. He has a thrifty young orchard of 100 trees and several
varieties of small fruits. Postoffice, Delphos."



Transcribed by Christy Jay for Ringgold County, Iowa, Rootsweb.

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