History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 463, Astoria Township
Joseph Trone, farmer, sec. 28; P. O., Astoria. The above-named
gentleman was born in Maryland in 1814. While a child his parents moved
to Pennsylvania, where he grew up and became employed as a distiller.
Here he was married to Elizabeth Dupes, who became the mother of 7
children. In 1854 Mr. T. arrived at Sharpe's Landing, on the Illinois
river, and purchased 40 acres of land in Astoria tp., and has labored
hard to increase it to 200 acres, as he has done. Mrs. T. died 4 years
after the family had moved here. In Jan., 1862, he contracted marriage
with Mrs. Nancy Stambaugh, who died in 1873. Mr. T. was married again,
this time to Miss Louisa Hollinger.
submitted by Carla Finley
Note: He married Nancy Isabel Fitz Stambaugh February 21, 1861
in Fulton County. She died May 5, 1870 and was the widow of
Michael Stambaugh. Louisa "Lucy" Hollinger, 1st married Samuel
Burgard and had 3 children. She married Mr. Trone February 9,
1871. I haven't found Elizabeth Dupes Trone's burial site.
Mr. Trone is buried in South Fulton Cemetery, Astoria Township, Fulton
County, Illinois.
