History of the early settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois : "centennial record", Part 116

Author: Power, John Carroll, 1819-1894; Power, S. A. (Sarah A.), 1824-; Old Settlers' Society of Sangamon County (Ill.)
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : E.A. Wilson & Co.
Number of Pages: 824


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Until that disclosure was made, the character of Archibald was such as to repel all suspicion of his complicity in the matter, but he was at once arrested and hurried to jail, which was probably the best thing that could have been done for him, for he was in great per- sonal danger from the infuriated popu- lace. Search then commenced anew for the body. The thicket was found,


and indications of a struggle under a small tree, bent over as though the hanging might have been done there. A trail was also visible, as though a body had been dragged to where the tracks of a buggy were to be seen, tending in the direction of the mill pond, previously spoken of, but could not be traced all the way. At the pond, however, it was found that a buggy had been down into the water and came out again. Hundreds of men were engaged in dragging and fish- ing for the body. Becoming impatient, the dam was cut down on Thursday morning, the eighteenth of June, and the water drawn off, but no body found.


About noon that day the officers, who had gone to arrest William Trayler, re- turned with him in custody, accompanied by a gentleman who called himself Dr. Gilmore. Then it was ascertained that William Trayler had been arrested at his own house, on Thursday, the sixteenth of the month, and started for Springfield, stopping at Lewiston, Fulton county, for the night. Late in the night Dr. Gilmore arrived there and told the officers that Fisher was alive and at his house; that he had followed them to give the information so that the prisoner might be released without further trouble. The deputy sheriff-James Maxcy-very properly re- fused to relcase him on the word of an entire stranger, and they continued their journey to Springfield.


Dr. Gilmore told the officers that when he heard of the arrest of William Trayler for the murder of Fisher, he was a few miles from home; that when he returned to his own house he found Fisher there; that he would have taken Fisher with him in pursuit of the officers with the prisoner, but that the state of Fisher's health would not admit of it. The doctor further said that he had known Fisher for several years, and that he was subject to fits of temporary derangement of mind in consequence of an injury to his head, received in early life. The doctor still further stated that Fisher told him that the first he knew after visiting Springfield, he found himself in the vicinity of Peoria. Being nearer to his home than to Spring- field, he proceeded at once to Warren county, without the slightest thought of his acts leading to the injury of any other person. On their arrival at Springfield,


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Dr. Gilmore's statement was made public, and at first the people seemed to be struck dumb with astonishment. When the news was communicated to Henry Tray- ler, in the jail, he, without faltering, re- affirmed his own story about the murder of Fisher. The idea was at once taken up by the crowd that Dr. Gilmore was in collusion with the murderers, and that he had invented that story as a ruse to secure their release and escape. The Doctor was permitted to remain


at liberty, but


was regarded with


strong suspicion. About three o'clock that afternoon Mr. Myers, the partner


of Archibald Trayler, started with


a two-horse carriage, accompanied by Egbert M. Mallory, to ascertain whether Fisher was alive or not, and if so to bring him back to Springfield.


Without waiting for the return of Myers and Mallory, the Traylers were brought before proper officers for pre- liminary examination, on the charge of the murder of Archibald Fisher. Henry Trayler was introduced on the part of the State, and on oath testified that his brothers, William and Archibald, had murdered Archibald Fisher, re-affirming all the minutia of his former statements, and at the close bore a rigid eross examin- ation without faltering or exposure. It was also proven by a respectable lady, who was well acquainted with Archie, that on the Monday afternoon of Fisher's dis- appearance, she saw Archibald Trayler and another man, who she identified as William Trayler,-then present-and still another, answering the description of Fisher, all enter the timber at the north- west of town, and an hour or two later, saw the two former return alone. Many other witnesses were examined, giving a combination of testimony that seemed to weave a net-work of circumstances about the prisoners, from which it would appear to any other than a legal mind, to be utterly impossible to extricate them. It was also proven that Archibald Trayler had passed an unusual number of pieces of gold coin. The buggy tracks in the mill pond were unexplained, as the prisoners were the only persons who coukl give any light upon that subject. The evidence of a struggle in the thicket, under the bending tree, where the hanging was supposed to have taken place, was unex-


plained, although it was afterwards proven that school children had been using the tree as a support to a swing. These and mony other points of evidence, the intricacies of which space forbids that I should follow out, were before the court.


When the prosecution had introduced all their evidence and rested the case, one of the attorneys for the defense, Hon. Stephen T. Logan, arose, and with every eye turned towards him, said that on the part of the defendants, he would introduce a single witness only.


Archibald Fisher, in full life and proper person, was then conducted slowly into the presence of the court. Messrs. Myers. and Mallory had returned late in the evening before-June 21st-with Fisher, and the friends of the prisoners kept him secreted until the proper time. The effect may be imagined, but can not be de- seribed. A gentleman who was cognizant of the proceedings from beginning to end, and who is now a judge of one of the courts of Illinois, describing the appear- ance of one of the prisoners in the court room, says: "Archibald Trayler was as fine looking a man as I ever saw. When his own full brother was testifying that he was a murderer, he stared at him with a look of astonishment, settling into an appearance of stoical indifference, that seemed to say, 'there is no hope of relief, therefore I must calmly endure the worst;' but when the man he was accused of having murdered was led into his presence, he broke down and gave vent to his feel- ings in a flood of tears, followed by uncon- trollable fits of sobbing and moaning."


By this time it began to dawn on the minds of the people that the threats of death to all three of the brothers had so wrought on the mind of Henry Trayler as to destroy his competency as a witness. A feeling of indignation immediately sprung up against May and Lamborn, who had led in the prosecution, and it only lacked a bold leader to mob and hang them. The feeling was so intense that Judge Logan, who had defended the prisoners, felt it his duty to come to the rescue of their prosecutors. He made a pacific speech, in which he exhorted all to abide by the laws. It had the desired effect, and all dispersed without violence.


A publie meeting of the citizens of Springfield was held on the evening of


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June 22, 1841, to express sympathy with the brothers, who had passed through that worse than firey ordeal, and particularly with their fellow citizen, Archibald Trayler, whose character had never been tarnished with the slightest shadow of reproach. That sympathy was of little avail. His fine, manly countenance was never again lighted up with a smile. He made some feeble attempts at business, but wandered about, avoiding all society, pined away, and died in less than two years. One who knew him well, says: " If ever a man died of a broken heart it was Archibald Trayler."


William Trayler died in less than a year after the trial.


Henry Trayler lived several years after the death of his brothers, but was never known to speak of the mournful event after his departure from Springfield at the close of the trial. He died in Menard county, and one of his sons, if not more, are among the most respected citizens of the county. It is, said that the three brothers never met after they passed out of the court room.


If the unhappy and afflicted being who was the innocent cause of all the trouble, had wandered away and died on the open prairie, much of which had not then been trod by the foot of man, William and Arch- ibald Trayler would, beyond a reasonable doubt, have been executed as his murderers, and that upon the force of surrounding cir- cumstances and the testimony of their own brother, who would doubtless have become hopelessly insane, caused by threats to make him confess a crime never committed, and afterwards by the appaling effects of


his own testimony. The world would probably have looked on and called it retri- butive justice. Such may and doubtless has been the effect of circumstantial evi- dence, in cases where the truth was never known.


Thus ended one of the most remarkable affairs of its kind on record. Many points and circumstances connected with the case are yet enshrouded in mystery, and will ever remain so.


TRIMBLE, GEORGE, was born ApiƂ 22, 1814, in Montgomery coun- ty, Kentucky. He was married August 23, 1836, to Lydia Shumate, who was born in that county August 15, 1815. They started the next morning after marriage


for Sangamon county, Illinois, and arrived in September, 1836, in what is now Curran township. They had six children in Sangamon county, namely :


HUGHEY T., born June 2, 1837, died in his seventh year.


WILLIAM H., born Dec. 31, 1839, married October, 1864, to Nancy A. Gib- son. They had two children. JOHN died in infancy, and ANNA E. resides with her father. Mrs. Trimble died Feb. 9, 1869, and Mr. T. was married Oct. 14, 1869, to Helen J. McGraw. They have one child, DORA BELL, and live two miles south of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.


ELIZA f., born March 28, 1840, mar- ried F. M. Miller. See his name.


ELIZABETH, born April 27, 1842, married Edmund T. Miller. See his name.


GAMES A., born July 27, 1846, mar- ried Mary A. Barbre, and reside in Cur- ran township.


GEORGE C., born Sept. 28, 1849, died Nov. 21, 1870.


Mrs. Lydia Trimble died Dec. 3, 1866, and George Trimble was married Dec. 5, IS67, to Rebecca Drennan. They reside two miles southeast of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.


TROTTER, GEORGE, was born about 1782, in Dunbarton, Scotland. He went to the West Indies about ISO1, and came to the United States at thirty years of age. About IS13 he was married in Hartford, Connecticut, to Catharine Im- lay, who was born in that city Oct. 29, 1786. Soon after marriage Mr. Trotter went to New York city and engaged in the mercantile business. They had one child, and Mrs Catharine Trotter died there, April 1, 1832. Mr. Trotter was married in New York July, 1835, to Mary Ward, a native of Longford, Ireland. They moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1835, where they had three children. Of his four children.


AGNES D., born Feb. 15, 1825, in New York city, married in Springfield to Zimri A. Enos. See his name.


JOHN E., born August 10, 1838, in Springfield, was married Sept. 14, 1865, to Martha L. Slates, who was born July 19, 1844, in Zanesville, Ohio. They had six children, five of whom died young. CLARA A. resides with her parents in Springfield.


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GEORGE W., born Nov. 17, 1840, in Springfield, was married in his native place to Ellen Tague, who was born August 5, 1841, in Peterborough, Canada. They have seven children, GEORGE T., MARY E., JOHN E., LOUISA S., WILLIAM A., FRANCIS J., and BERTHA C., and live in Springfield. G. W. Trotter has been three years on the police force.


MARY D., born April, 1842, in Spring- field, resides with her mother.


George Trotter was engaged in land speculating from the time he came to Springfield until his death, which took place in May, 1842. His widow resides with her son, John, in Springfield, Illinois.


TROTTER, JAMES, born about 1770, in Culpepper county, Virginia. He was taken by his parents, about 1792, to Bourbon county, Kentucky, and was there married to Elizabeth Kenny, who was also a native of Virginia. They had eight children born in Bourbon county, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1826, and settled on Round Prairie, four miles east of Spring- field. Of their children :


JOSEPH died aged 19 years.


GAMES K., born Feb. 19, 1799, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, married there March 22, 1823, to Mary A. Daubinspeck, who was born Feb. 24, 1800, in the same county. They had two children, and moved to Rush county, Indiana, where one child was born, thence to Sangamon county, Illi- nois, in 1827,one year later than his father. Six children were born in Sangamon county. Of their nine children, ELIZA- BETH, born Jan. 2, 1824, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, June 21, 1849, to Stephen Lawyer, a native of Guernsey county, Ohio. They had seven children, four of whom died young. Mr. Lawyer enlisted August 10, 1861, at Ana- mosa, in what became Co. L, Ist Iowa Cav., and died Nov. 14, 1863, at Little Rock, Arkansas. The three children, ROBERT, ELIZABETH A. and STEPHEN re- side with their mother in Clear Lake town- ship. WILLIAM, born March 15, 1825, in Kentucky, enlisted September, 1862, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf. for three years, and died of disease March 17, 1863, at Mem- phis, Tennessee. JANE, born Feb. 2, IS27, in Rush county, Indiana, married Henry R. Clark, had two children, and her second husband is William A. But-


ler. See his name. NANCY, born Dec. 8, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 24, 1848, to Hiram Lawyer, who was born Dec. 11, 1823, in Guernsey county, Ohio. They had nine children, three of whom died young. AMANDA married Mahlon Geathard, has four children, and lives near Rochester. GEORGE W. resides with his parents. ELIZA J., married James Burch. WILLIAM T., ADA A. and EVE- LINE reside with their parents two miles northeast of Sangamon station, on the farm where her parents settled in 1827. JAMES born Jan. 2, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 24, 1857, to Elizabeth Burch. They had five children. WILLIAM A. died aged two years. PIIILEMON, LUETTA, GEORGE and MARY E. reside with their parents two miles northeast of Sangamon station. JULIA A., born April 20, 1833, in Sangamon county, married James Law- yer, and died January, 1864, leaving three children, two of whom reside with their father, near Salisbury, and Charles lives on Round Prairie. MARY, born August 6, 1835, in Sangamon county, married Thomas W. Long. She died leaving one child, EDWARD, who lives with his father in Taylorville. GEORGE, born Dec. 14, 1839, in Sangamon county, mar- ried Eliza Brown, who died, and he cn- listed August, 1862, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf. for three years, served full time and was honorably discharged. He was married Nov. 23, 1864, to Mary E. Griffiths, who was born Oct. 29, 1846, in Madison county, Indiana. They had one child, JANE, born Nov. 3, 1866. George Trotter died Jan. 21, 1867, of disease contracted in the army. His widow married March 6, 1873, to Bur- gess Taintor, a native of New York. He has one child by a former marriage, ELLA MAY. Mr. and Mrs. Taintor have one son, and resides two miles north of Spring- field, Illinois. CATHARINE, born Jan. S, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Willis Wilson, has three children, and resides in Tazewell county, Illinois. James K. Trotter dicd Dec. 27, 1839. His widow resides with her son James, on the farm where she and her husband set- tled in 1827, two miles northeast of Sanga- mon station, and five miles east of Spring- field, Illinois. When James K. Trotter was moving to the country, in 1827, he had to cross the Sangamon river three miles from his father's house. He left his


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team and family in safe hands and was about to enter a canoe to cross the river when he saw the two dogs his father brought with him the year before, at the time they all moved from Kentucky. These dogs were sitting on the opposite bank ap- parently waiting for him. He called and they plunged in and swam to meet him with every appearance of pleasure. He took them across in the canoe and then halloed, supposing that his brothers were hunting near by. The dogs paid no atten- tion to his call, but ran back and forth along the road, and in that way conducted him to the house, when he learned that none of the family had been near the river for several days. Three questions naturally suggest themselves: Why were the dogs there? Did they know he was coming? If so, how? Perhaps they could be an- swered by some writer on the higher life of animals.


JOHN, born about 1800, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, married Isabel Brazzle, and moved to Wisconsin, where the parents died leaving four children, all married.


JIARY, born Nov. 19, [So2, in Bour- bon county, Kentucky, married Thomas J. Turley. See his name.


NANCY, born Feb. 14, 1805, in Bour- bon county, Kentucky, married in Sanga- mon county, to Edward Clark. See his name.


GANE, born April 18, 1807, in Ken- tucky, married in Sangamon county, to Samuel Williams. See his name.


GEORGE, born June 13, 18og, in Bourbon county, Kentucky. In IS26 he accompanied his parents from Bourbon county to Sangamon county, Illinois. They settled on Round Prairie. He remained at home ten years. In 1831 he left for the Wisconsin lead mines, worked in them that summer, returning home in the fall. He served in the Black Hawk war, and was married March 24, 1833, in Sangamon county, to Sarah Chilton, who was born Dee. 19, 1816, in Madison county, Illinois. They had two children in Sangamon county, and in IS36 moved to Stephenson county, locating near what is now Orange- ville. Twelve children were born in Stephenson county, three of whom died in infancy. Of their eleven children, THOMAS, born July 1, 1834, in Sanga- mon county, married, and in 1857 emi- grated to Missouri, in 1858, was married


there to Mrs. Martha Clemens, formerly Miss Myers, who was born in Missouri. They had three children, namely, NANCY, JOHN and GEORGE. Mrs. Martha Trotter died in 1865, and Thomas T. returned to Illinois. He was married in September, 1867, to Mrs. Sarah Seidel, formerly Miss Woodring, of Pennsylvania. In the spring of IS6S he returned to near Barn- ard, Nodaway county, Missouri, where they still reside. Of his children by the third marriage, namely: ELIZABETH, born Nov. 7,1835, in Sangamon county, married July 4, IS58, to Joseph Vanmeter, of Ohio. They had two living children, GEORGE and HENRY, and reside near Oneco, Stephen- son county, Illinois. JAMES, born March 27, IS37, in Stephenson county, was mar- ried in 1860 to Sarah Riem, a native of Pennsylvania. They had five children, ESTIIER, ELMER, CHARLES, FRANK, and ARCHIE. He enlisted in the 46th Ill. Vet. Vol. Inf. in January, 1864, and served until the close of the war when he was honorably discharged. In 1869 he moved with his family to Nodaway county, Mis- souri, where they still reside. WIL- LIAM, born September 19, 1839, in Stephenson county, Illinois, married in December, 1864, to Emily J. Lorch, who was born in 1840 in Springfield, Illinois. In 1865 they moved to Orangeville, where they had three children, WILLIAM, ANNA MAY and MELVIN. In 1875 the family moved to Polo, Ogle county, Illi- nois, where they now reside. GEORGE, born July 1, IS41, in Stephenson county, enlisted August 28, IS61, left home Sept. 10, 1861, served two and a half years, was promoted from the ranks to fife major of the regiment. Re-enlisted Dec. 6, 1863, at Camp Cowan, Miss., came home on a furlough, returned, wasstruck by lightning March 16, 1865, while at Dauphin Island. He reluctantly returned home May 21, 1865, where he died March 25, 1866. URANIA, born February 24, IS43, in Stephenson county, married there Oct. 1, 1863, to David W. Scott, a native of Ohio, and a graduate of Cincinnati Eelec- tic Medical College. Is at present practic-


ing medicine in Buena Vista, Stephenson county, Illinois, where they reside. They have two children, MINNIE and MYRON. MARY A., born Dec. 27, 1844, in Stephenson county, died April 11, 186S. MILLARD F., born May 25, 1850,


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in Stephenson county, resides with his parents. SARAH J., born May 24, 1852, in Stephenson county, died December 8, IST1. LUCY C., born July 30, 1854, in Stephenson county, married there December 21, 1873, to Wood- bury Robey, who was born in the same county. They have one child, LEROY, and reside in Stephenson county. JOHN C., born Sept. 4, 1857, lives with his parents at Orangeville, Stephenson county, Illinois.


ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, married William Graham. See his name.


Mrs. Elizabeth Trotter died March 4, IS25, before the family left Kentucky, and James Trotter died Sept. 26, 1839, in San- gamon county, Illinois.


TROXELL, Mrs. SARAH, whose maiden name was Rouk, was born in Washington county, Maryland, and was there married to Abraham Troxell, a native of the same county. They had ten children in Maryland, and Mr. Troxell died there, March 4, 1824. His widow and some of her children came to Sanga- mon county in 1836, and the others came later. Of her children-


ELIZABETH, born Jan. 19, 1815, in Washington county, Maryland, was mar- ried there to Perry Prather. They had twelve children, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1850. Of their children, ABRAHAM went to California in March, 1859, and after a few years absence was not heard of until 1875. He now lives in Prescott, Arizona. SARAH E., married Harvey N. North. See his name. RUTH A., married Marshal Sattley. Sce


his name. WASHINGTON B. was a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and aided in suppressing the rebellion. He lives with his mother. WILLIAM D. is in Prescott, Arizona. MARY C. married Jacob C. Miller. See his name. KITTURAH, SAMUEL J., ISAAC R., RACHEL F., JEMIMA J. and JOHN L., the six latter, live with their mother, except Isaac R., who is a telegraph operator. Perry Prather died, and his widow lives four miles east of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.


DAVID, born Jan. 15, 1815, in Wash- ington county, Maryland, came to Sanga- mon county, Illinois, in the autumn of 1835, settling in what is now Cooper township. He was married in Macon county to Lucinda Diekey. They hal


two living children, JAMES B., married Harriet Jones, and lives near Argenta, Macon county, Illinois. JOIIN was stah- bed in the heart, when about fifteen years of age, by a southern refugee, during the time of the rebellion. They were at work together in a field, and although others were near them, the murderer escaped and has never been heard of. The stab- bing was done without provocation or warning. Mrs. Lucinda Troxell died Jan. 8, 1875. David Troxell left Argenta March 10, 1874, intending to visit his brother, Peter. Having to pass through Decatur, Illinois, he was seen there the clay he left home, and that is the last that is certainly known of him by his relatives. Ile was a sober, honest and substantial farmer, and his fate is enshrouded in the most profound mystery.


PETER, born May 2, 1St6, in Wash- ington county, Maryland, and came to Sangamon county, arriving October, 1836, in what is now Cooper township, south of Sangamon river. He was married in San- gamon county, Feb. 18, 1841, to Susan Firey. They had twelve children. Abraham died in his eighth year. GRANT E., next to the youngest, died in infancy. MARY E., born Jan. 14, 1844, was married Feb. 23, 1865, to John W. North. Sce his name. SARAH E., born Feb. 1, 1847, was married Sept. 1, 1870, to Henry C. Neer, who was born Jan. 6, 1842, in Loudon county, Virginia, and brought by his parents to Sangamon county in the fall of that year. He en- listed in August, 1862, for three years, in Co. 1, 114th Ill. Inf., and was taken prisoner at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864. He was imprisoned, at Andersonville, Georgia, and other places, until April 4, 1865, when he was released, and was honorably discharged May 8, 1865. H. C. Neer and wife live three miles north of Breckenridge, Sangamon county, Illinois. ANNIE was married Feb. 22, 1876, to J. Henry Ross, and live near Breckenridge, Sangamon county, Illinois. RUTH E., ISAAC 11., WILLIAM P., JOHN J., GRACE E., PHOEBE J. and MARTHA A; the seven latter live with their parents at Edgewood farm, five miles east of Roch- ester, Sangamon county, Illinois.


WILLIAM, boro Nov. 12, 1817, in Washington county, Maryland, came to


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Sangamon county in 1836, is unmarried, and lives at the house of his niece, Mrs. North.


JOHN, born July 8, 18:9, in Washing- ton county, Maryland, came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1836, and was mar- ried Nov. 18, 1857, to Mary S. Firey. They had one child, MARY, who was married August 9, 1876, to Alexander Anderson, and lives in Pana, Illinois. Mrs. Mary S. Troxell died Nov. 16, 1859, and John Troxell was married Nov. 19, 1862, to Cynthia Willy. They have six living children, EVA R., ABRAHAM P., LUCINDA A., ELIZA J., JOHN W. and LUTHER, and reside near Grove City, Christian county, Illinois.




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