Cyrus & Mary Ann Trotter
Courtesy of Bill Swift

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Cyrus Newton Trotter was the sixth child of John R. Trotter and Sarah Ramsey Trotter. He was born April 8, 1819 in Virginia and died August 27, 1884 near Hardinsburg, Indiana in the home of his sister-in-law n-law, Dorcas Marshall Trotter, the wife of his brother, William. He had been threshing near there, became ill, and was unable to return home. He died of pneumonia . He owned and operated a threshing rig. He had come to Indiana with his mother about 1833, following the death of his father in Virgina. On February 4 , 1846, he married Mary A, Marshall , the daughter of James & Cathrine Colwell Marshall. She was born July 3, 1823 and died November 16, 1892 at the age of 69. She died in the home of her son, John E, Trotter, near Chambersburg . She was a sister of Dorcas Marshall , who married Cyrus' brother William. Cyrus and his wife are buried in the Walton Cemetery near Hardinsburg, They had ten children, as follows: 3100 Isaac Newton Trotter, born 184 3101 Catherine Trotter, born in 1849 3102 Sarah Jane Trotter, born January 4, 1851 3103 Infant (unnamed), died March 10, 1852 and is buried in Walton Cem. 3104 Caroline Trotter, born February 22, 1853, buried in Walton Cem. 3105 Mary (Polly) Ann Trotter, born August 27, 1858 3106 William Patterson Trotter, born June 20, 1861 3107 Sophia Trotter, born 1864 3108 John Elmer Trotter, born February 2, 1867 George Marcus Trotter, born November 11, 1869