Benjamin Basil Trout

Burial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44232592

LOUISA JANE HAMMER was born Jan. 6, 1853 in Jasper Co., Iowa and died May 18, 1928 in Jasper County. She married BENJAMIN BASIL TROUT Dec. 6, 1870 in Kellogg, Jasper County, Iowa. He was born May 5, 1850 in Sterling Township, Brown Co., Ohio and died Oct. 27, 1932 at Fresno, Calif. Both are buried in Palo Alto Cemetery, Newton, Jasper Co., Ia. Their children Edna, Guy and Ross are buried in Honey Creek Cemetery, New Providence, Hardin Co., Iowa.
Thomas Jefferson Hammer, in his 1917 Biography of Seth Hammer, records the following about Benjamin: "After farming some years in Jasper County and accumulating enough to engage in the mercantile business he took an interest in a hardware store at Hubbard, Hardin County; but the business not proving as remunerative as he had hoped, he with his wife, moved to Kansas in 1885. Before leaving Iowa, however, they had the misfortune to lose, through sickness, their three bright and promising children, Edna, Guy and Ross. In Kansas, Ben B. farmed for a few years, when he returned to Iowa, settling at Reasnor, Jasper County. Here he again engaged in the hardware business, prospered, bought land and accumulated a sufficiency to take care of himself and Jane during the remainder of their lives. Some time after retiring from the hardware business at Reasnor he made each of his five living children a present of ($1,000) one thousand dollars."

Children of LOUISA HAMMER and BENJAMIN TROUT are:

1. EDNA TROUT, b. May 30, 1879 Hardin Co., Ia, d. June 8, 1883 Hardin Co. 4y 9d https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121008059
2. GUY TROUT, b. March 18, 1881 Hardin Co., d. June 15, 1883 Hardin Co. 2y2m28d https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121006937
3. ROSS TROUT, b. Dec. 21, 1882 Hardin Co., d. March 5 1884 Hardin Co., 1y2m15d. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121008621
4. CARL TROUT, 1885-1942, m. Katherine Lust, 1890-1970. Residence: Reasnor. Both buried in Palo Alto Cemetery, Newton, Ia. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44241993
5. DORA TROUT, Sept. 21 1887-1971, Reasnor https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44231980
6. LULA SUTTON TROUT, b. Aug. 2, 1890 at Reasnor, Iowa, d. Sept. 6, 1972 Prairie City, Iowa, m. Robert Butin, b. Feb. 14, 1889 Iowa, d. Nov. 7, 1948, Reasnor, Iowa, son of Marion & Phoebe Earp Butin. Lula & Robert are buried in Hewitt Cemetery, Jasper County, Iowa. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22935939
7. BASIL B. TROUT, b. Sept. 19, 1893, Iowa, d. Nov. 19, 1963, Fresno, Calif. Married Hazel Burgess, 1890-1951. In WWI served in the Convoy Service in France. Residence: Reasnor. Burial Belmont Memorial Park, Fresno, Calif. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92061549
8. LE ROY "Roy" TROUT, b. July 16, 1895 Reasnor, Iowa, d. Aug. 7, 1970, m. Edna Bean, b. 1893 in Iowa, d. Feb. 4, 1957. Residence: Reasnor. They are buried in Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Des Moines Co., Iowa. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119587719