Iowa
Old Press
Excelsior Record
Maquoketa, Jackson co., Iowa
October 28, 1912
At one thirty in the early hours of the morning, Ralph Belden
Trout, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Trout, passed into that far
county where free and unhampered, he can go on living and
working. In California where he had acheived much business
sucess, his keen and practiced mind, his humor and cheerfulness,
his high moral standards inspired repect and love in all who knew
him...The last words spoken but a moment before his going were 'I
live and breath and have my being in God.' And so he left those
who loved him sorrowing and alone, but comforted in the thought
that his strong brave life goes on".
[Transcriber notes: Ralph Belden Trout 1890-1912. I am a
descendant of Thomas Trout, George and Grace are my ggg aunt and
uncle. Transcribed by M.J.M., December 2007]