- ROBERT WESLEY TRICKLE, who in his lifetime was connected
with all the prominent business
- enterprises of Browntown, Green county, passed to his last
rest June 23, 1894, when he was aged fifty years, three months,
five days. He was born in Clarno township, Green county, March
18, 1844, and had passed his life in Wisconsin. Successful in
his business ventures, his good management had acquired for him
a considerable fortune, and at his death he left two large farms
and five houses and lots. During the Civil war he enlisted in
Company A. 3d Colorado Cavalry, and served until the close of
the struggle, his discharge bearing the date of 1865. By virtue
of his army service he was a member of the G.A.R., and active
in its work in emulating the illustrious dead.
- On Sept. 26, 1866, Mr. TRICKLE was united in marriage with
Miss Mary ST. CLAIR, who was
- born July 13, 1850, daughter of Samuel and Ella (RULOW) ST.
CLAIR, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter a native
of Canada. Mr. and Mrs. ST. CLAIR had five children: Lucinda,
deceased; Virginia BOID, of Browntown; Robert L., deceased; Joseph
deceased; and Mary E. Mr. ST. CLAIR was a machinist by trade,
and worked for some time in Detroit, Mich., where Mrs. TRICKLE
was born, but in 1855 located in Green county, Wis., later going
to California, where he died. Mrs. ST. CLAIR died in Freeport,
Ill., at the age of seventy years. To Mr. and Mrs. TRICKLE were
born two children: Emma E., who married Ellis STOVER, and died,
leaving two sons, Wesley and Eddie; and Charles W., born Oct.
28, 1870, who married (first) Edith McGILL and (second) Emma
KEEHL, the latter of whom has borne him two children, Robert
and Eva. Mrs. TRICKLE has proven herself a most competent business
woman in her wise management of her husband's estate, and is
now living in one of the handsomest dwellings in Browntown, with
her sister, Virginia as a companion. These ladies are highly
cultured, and greatly liked by their numerous friends.
- Robert Wesley TRICKLE was a son of Ashford and Eliza J. (MORTON)
TRICKEL of Clarno
- township, where the latter is yet living, now over eighty-one
years of age. They were the parents of children as follows: Mary,
Robert, Julia, Lydia, Joshua, John, Jane, George, James, Sarah
and Ellen.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 672-673.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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